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True to form, far-right & religious pundits are slamming the Boy Scouts’ announcement about possibly welcoming gay members & troop leaders.

Getting away on your dream cruise could be a nightmare if your port of call is homophobic. A recent case of two American men arrested for "buggery" while still aboard their ship in Dominica raises awareness of this issue.

The Family Research Council announced that it would no longer use UPS for its shipping needs because the company stopped donating to the Boy Scouts of America over its anti-gay policy.

Officials from the University of California, Berkley are considering passing a measure that would ban the Salvation Army from its campus due to the organization’s anti-gay policies.

The United Way of Cleveland & Intel will stop funding the Boy Scouts of America because it refuses to change its policy that prohibits gay mem and youth from joining the organization.

A San Diego news station got hold of files that allege officials from the Boy Scouts did not report sexual abuse incidents that occurred within the organization. Additionally several LGBT groups criticized the BSA’s decision to uphold its anti-gay policy.

Action star Chuck Norris wrote an article that claimed the Obama administration is financially persuading a high-ranking Boy Scouts of America official to change the organization’s policy that bans gays from joining.

A music teacher from Cincinnati, Ohio, says officials from a Christian school retracted their job offer after they found out he is gay.

Zach Wahls, an Internet star and Eagle Scout, delivered 275,000 signatures that urged the Boy Scouts of America to eliminate its policy that prohibits gays from joining the organization.

Rick Santorum recently visited Belmont University in Nashville, soon after the school suffered a scandal that forced it to change its nondiscrimination policies. Meanwhile, Tennessee’s anti-gay "Don’t Say Gay Bill" has been posponed for three weeks.