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Originally Posted by Richard
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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True,
In all the years I was a scout, in 4 different troops, all of our troops met in a church, and at times volunteered with a church. My last troop kind of ruined my view of the organization. There was racism (surprisingly, no discrimination against the gay kids) rampant throughout the youth and the adult leadership. I know that is not the entire organization and I had some great learning experiences being a scout, but it only takes one to undo the good of many.