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On the article Boy Scouts of America Considering End to Gay Ban
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Jeff Bence
5:17 pm on Monday, January 28, 2013
The Boy Scouts were a big part of my development as a young man. The whole experience, from Cub Scouts through Boy Scouts and Explorers, was uniformly positive, and earning Eagle Scout was a proud moment for me. As an adult, I finally became aware of BSA's discrimination, and what I had once been proud of became an embarrassment to me. When my own son was old enough to join Scouts, their policy had my wife and I steer him in other directions - we were not interested in raising him to be a homophobe. This is a welcome change, if too late by a decade for my family.