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Maryland Boy Scouts visit Aberdeen Proving Ground, October 2011
Maryland Boy Scouts visit Aberdeen Proving Ground, October 2011

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA), one of the largest private youth organizations in the United States, has policies which prohibit those who are not willing to subscribe to the BSA's Declaration of Religious Principle, which has been interpreted by some as banning atheists, and, until January 2014, prohibited all "known or avowed homosexuals", from membership in its Scouting program. The ban on adults who are "open or avowed homosexuals" from leadership positions was lifted in July 2015. (Full article...)