February 26, 2008
Lambda Legal Urges City of Los Angeles to Cut Ties With Boy Scout Affiliate
Lambda Legal has sent a strongly-worded request to Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo that the city honor its own nondiscrimination policies and cut ties with a Boy Scouts of America affiliate that currently administers youth programs for the Los Angeles Police and Fire Departments. [More]

September 24, 2004
United Way Loosens Its Bias Policy
United Way of Ventura County on Thursday revised its two-year-old policy on discrimination, allowing it to give money to such groups as the Boy Scouts of America. [More]

November 19, 2003
United Way, Boy Scouts part ways in Chicago
The United Way of Chicago slashed funding to the Boy Scouts of Chicago, precipitating an end to their relationship. Gay rights groups herald this termination as a fruitful outcome made possible by boycotting and relentless pressure. [More]

November 13, 2003
United Way, Boy Scouts Parting Ways
The United Way Capitol Area cut funding to the Austin-area Boy Scouts, a measure that will cost the organization nearly $160,000 next year. The United Way Capitol Area joins about 70 other United Way chapters across the country that have cut Boy Scout funding. [More]

November 1, 2003
Deputy in youth program charged in child sex
A sheriff’s deputy assigned to the Explorers program (a division of the Boy Scouts of America) was arrested on charges of sexual assault of two boys who were previous victims of sexual abuse. One of the boys against whom the crime was committed was an 8- or 9-year old. [More]

October 14, 2003
Former Explorers Post Leader Admits To Sex Abuse
Robert Voelker of Buffalo pleaded guilty to sodomizing two 16-year-old boys in the Explorers Post in Lancaster between February 2000 and April 2001. [More]

October 14, 2003
Brothers accuse ex-Scout leader of sex abuse
Two brothers allege that a former scout leader coerced them into “hundreds of deviant sexual acts between 1971 and 1983. The two brothers, now in their 30s, say they are coming forward to protect other kids. [More]

October 10, 2003
Ex-Teacher Convicted of Abusing Boy Scouts
A former teacher and Boy Scout leader was convicted of fondling 11-year-old Boy Scouts: an ordeal that began in 1992. Seventeen more abuse charges were dropped against the defendant due to a legal loophole. [More]

October 7, 2003
Boy Scouts threatened in Portland schools
A homosexual father filed a complaint against his sons’ elementary school for allowing the Boy Scouts of America to hand out promotional flyers. The father contends that the school violates the First Amendment by offering his sons the opportunity to swear by the Boy Scout oath. This oath states: “On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country” and to remain “morally straight.” [More]

September 15, 2003
Miami Scuba Instructor Accused of Molesting Boy Scouts
A seasonal worker at a camp run by the Boy Scout of America was charged with four counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a minor for allegedly fondling four Boy Scouts. [More]

July 11, 2003
State Can Bar Scouts From Charity Drive
Connecticut has the right to prohibit the Boy Scouts of America from participating in a state-employee charity drive because of the organization’s policy regarding the exclusion of homosexuals from membership and employment positions. Connecticut’s Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities said that letting the BSA [More]

July 26, 2002
S.F. judges cut links to Boy Scouts Push to take change statewide because of policy on gays, lesbians
San Francisco’s judges cut ties with the Boy Scouts because of the organization’s refusal to admit gays and lesbians. This policy prohibits the judges from taking part in the Boy Scouts. [More]

May 23, 2002
San Diego’s New Lease With Boy Scouts to Come Under Court Scrutiny in Discrimination Lawsuit.
The City of San Diego leased 18 acres of land to the Boy Scouts in Balboa Park instigating further attack by The American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties. The ACLU brought a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts on behalf of a lesbian couple and an agnostic couple whose sons are barred from participation with the Boy Scouts. The consequences that the Boy Scouts of America may suffer if the organization loses the court battle are unknown. This case is expected to go to trial in Spring 2003. [More]

December 2, 2001
City Council Renews Boy Scout Lease
Critics Wanted Boy Scouts Out Of Balboa Park
SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego City Council Tuesday approved a 25-year extension of the Boy Scouts' lease in Balboa Park, with an option for another 15 years. Heated Debate Preceeds Council Vote The City Council approved the lease on a 6-3 vote during a City Council meeting that dragged on for more than seven hours. For more than 80 years, the prime location has cost the Boy Scouts next to nothing to lease, 10News reported. Now critics wanted to see that deal brought to an end. [More]

September 25, 2001
House Passes Hostettler Amendment Protecting Boy Scouts
WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today overwhelmingly passed an amendment introduced by Rep. John Hostettler that would protect the Boy Scouts of America from the latest politically motivated assault against its traditions. By a vote of 262-152, the House accepted Hostettler's amendment. [More]

August 16, 2001
Santa Barbara Boy Scouts Need Your Help!
On March 20, 2001, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to condemn the National Boy Scouts of America finding them to be "incompatible" with the county's "anti-discriminatory policies," as well as "unsupportable by the County of Santa Barbara." The Scouts' use of public facilities and permits is now [More]

August 7, 2001
Japanese Scouts left in lurch by Berkeley Gay councilman has meeting canceled
A group of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts from Japan found the welcome mat at Berkeley City Hall yanked out from under them yesterday after a city councilmember objected to the Boy Scouts of America's policy on gays. The meeting at City Hall was to have been the ceremonial highlight of a weeklong visit to the United States for 38 Scouts from Sakai, Berkeley's sister city in Japan. "I feel it's very unfortunate because the children are innocent in [More]

August 1, 2001
Boston-Area Scout Unit to Allow Gay Leaders -Report
BOSTON (Reuters) - One of the largest Boy Scout councils in Massachusetts has adopted a policy that will allow gay scoutmasters to be affiliated with some local troops as long as they do not discuss their sexual orientation. [More]

July 31, 2001
Bush Calls Scout Values 'America's
Fort A.P. Hill, Va. (CNSNews.com) - The Boy Scouts' values "are the values of America," President Bush told 32,000 boys attending the National Boy Scout Jamboree at a Virginia military base. In videotaped remarks played for the crowd on Monday, President Bush told the Scouts gathered at Fort A.P. Hill, "Every society depends on trust and loyalty, on courtesy [More]

July 25, 2001
California politicians reject Boy Scouts
The Democrat-controlled California State Assembly rejected a resolution honoring the Boy Scouts for the organization's 85th anniversary. Assembly Concurrent Resolution 90, introduced by Assemblyman Robert Pacheco, R-Walnut, need 41 votes to pass but received only 37. Seventeen Democrats voted against [More]

June 22, 2001
Bashing the Boy Scouts
One Year ago this week, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Boy Scouts. This ruling gave the BSA the right to choose with whom they want to associate; as guaranteed by the First Amendment. Since that decision, the BSA has been under fire from school boards, local municipalities, certain United Way chapters, and many homosexual rights organizations. Oliver North editorialized on the attack against the BSA this week in the Washington Times. [More]

June 22, 2001
D.C. Panel Reinstates Two Gay
On June 20, 2001 the D.C. Commission on Human Rights stepped on the toes of the United States Supreme Court by ruling for the reinstatement of two homosexual scout leaders. Ironically, this decision comes one year after the US Supreme Court's decision on the Boy Scouts v. Dale that upheld the BSAs right to choose with whom they associate. Here are two stories to inform you about this outrage. [More]

June 18, 2001
PBS film on Boy Scouts slammed as one-sided
The Public Broadcasting Service tonight will air a documentary that reportedly takes issue with the Boy Scouts´ policy of excluding homosexuals. But conservatives are determined to block it. Foes of the film say it is one-sided and misuses public money. private dime. But when you bring the taxpayer [More]

June 14, 2001
Senate Votes to Pull Funds from Schools that Ban Boy Scouts
In a narrow vote Thursday the Senate voted to withhold federal funds from school districts that deny the Boy Scouts access to their facilities because of the organization's ban on homosexual members. Sen. Jesse Helms' amendment to a major education bill passed by a vote of 52-48. The House of Representatives approved a similar amendment last month. [More]

June 12, 2001
Recruiting banned during school
Eugene School District officials banned all recruiting during school hours rather than allow the BSA to have access to children. This decision came in light of the BSA’s discrimination toward gays and atheists. The same policy required the BSA to begin paying $7 - $50 an hour to use school facilities. [More]

May 31, 2001
L.A. Times shuts out Scouts
Cuts aid due to BSA's exclusion of homosexual adult leaders
After years of supporting the Boy Scouts' "Campership Program" – which enables needy Scouts to attend summer camp by underwriting part of the costs – The Los Angeles Times is for the first time turning down the Scouts' application for [More]

May 29, 2001
L.A. Times Shuts out Scouts
(LOS ANGELES) After a history of supporting the Boy Scouts' "Campership Program," The Los Angeles Times has for the first time denied the Scouts' application for The Los Angeles Times' annual Family Fund [More]

May 24, 2001
House Passes Bill to Force Schools to Allow Scouts to Meet
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives approved a proposal that would ensure Boy Scouts access to public schools in a measure inspired by a Florida county's attempt to ban the group because of the organization's anti-gay policy. Language in the measure, tacked onto an education reform bill Wednesday, was lifted directly from a court order overturning the Broward County, Fla., school board's decision to ban the Boy Scouts, said Michael Goode, spokesman for Rep. Van Hilleary, R-Tenn., a bill sponsor. [More]

May 15, 2001
L.A. Police Commission Votes to Keep Scouts
The Los Angeles Police Commission will continue its 38-year relationship with the Boy Scouts. Today’s 3-2 vote appears to reverse the Los Angeles City Council’s controversial decision to sever LAPD ties with the Scouts. This key victory for the Scouts follows February’s decision by L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca to retain Scout programs within the Sheriffs’ Department. [More]

May 15, 2001
Amendment Would Ban Discrimination
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Jesse Helms, a North Carolina Republican and a former Boy Scout, Monday introduced an amendment that would force any public school receiving federal funds to give the Boy Scouts of America equal access to school facilities. [More]

May 2, 2001
Boy Scouts numbers up, finances hold, despite pressures on varied fronts
IRVING, Texas (BP)--Despite ongoing controversy over its refusal to accept acknowledged homosexuals as leaders, a national spokesman said the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) recorded an increase in participation last year. [More]

April 27, 2001
CWA cuts ties with Scouts
Communication Workers of America, one of the nation’s largest unions, is cutting its ties with the Boy Scouts of America over the Scouts’ exclusion of gay leaders and members. [More]

February 27, 2001
Separation of Morality and State - Excerpts from a column by Alan Keyes
Liberals believe that it is unconstitutional for citizens to act on their moral judgments. They believe that the state has the right coercively to dictate conscience on these points - and on a civil rights pretext force citizens to accept what is contrary to their religious conscience. [More]

January 29, 2001
3 of 4 Americans support Boy Scouts
Despite widespread attacks against the Boy Scouts of America since the Supreme Court reaffirmed last summer the group's right to exclude homosexuals and atheists from its ranks, the nation's oldest youth organization continues to earn high approval ratings [More]

January 25, 2001
Alumni Association Comes to Boy Scouts' Defense
A California legal defense group is rounding up support for the Boy Scouts. Late last year the City of Los Angeles adopted a policy that prevented the Boy Scouts from taking part in the city’s Scouts Explorer program. The city’s policy may also prevent the Boy Scouts from using public [More]

January 22, 2001
LA Sheriff Hedges on Boy Scout Affiliation Los Angeles
Following a flurry of petitions, telephone calls and e-mails sent to the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department, a spokesman for Sheriff Lee Baca said he "has not made up his mind" about severing his department's ties with the Boy Scout Explorer program. [More]

December 2, 2000
Scout leader says New York chapter not anti-gay
San Francisco and San Jose have ended their sponsorship of Boy Scout Troops. Also, they prohibit the Boy Scouts from recruiting new members in the public schools. [More]

November 29, 2000
Bye Scouts
The Los Angeles City Council voted 11 to 0 to cut the city's ties with the Boy Scouts of America, saying the group's exclusion of homosexuals and atheists was discriminatory. LA City Councilman Mike Feuer said: "Nobody, including the Boy Scouts ... has articulated what the difference is between discriminating on the basis of race, on the one hand, which they would agree ought never happen, and discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.” [More]

August 29, 2000
Scouts’ Successful Ban on Gays is Followed by Loss in Support
San Francisco and San Jose told local Scout troops that they could no longer use parks, schools and other municipal sites due to the organization’s exclusion of homosexuals. [More]

May 6, 1998
Berkeley Strips Scouts of Free Berths at Marina Furor over group’s policy toward gays.
The Berkeley City Council denied free docks to the Sea Scouts because its parent group, the Boy Scouts of America, employs the policy of barring gays and atheists from its organization. [More]

October 14, 1993
1,800 Ex-Scoutmasters suspected of molestation
1,800 Ex-Scoutmasters suspected of molestation were removed by the Boy Scouts of America between 1971 and 1991, but documents show that some of these ousted leaders went elsewhere to abuse scouts. [More]