Being an active adult member of one of the largest troops in the nation (usually 15+ patrols of 10 boys each + a corps of 20-30 boys working on Eagle and acting in a staff supporting role + a 15 boy leadership staff of 17-18 yo's) in Dallas when my sons were in Scouting, I saw a number of boys over the years who were suspected of being gay and later admitted to being gay. However, they just went about their business of being kids in a scouting program, bothering nobody and nobody bothering them in a DADT sense, and were just accepted members of the troop who did as well in the program as any of the other boys.
I suspect it will boil down to individual personalities within the individual troops, but have to wonder how some church organizations supporting Scouting will reconcile the philosophical dilemma this move creates for them.
And so it goes...
Richard 
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
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