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What history tells us about Boy Scouts and inclusion

  • Written by Benjamin Rene Jordan, Associate Professor of American History, Christian Brothers University
imageFrom the Honolulu Advertiser (May 26, 1922), a photo of a multiethnic Boy Scout troop called the 'Queen's own.'Honolulu Advertiser

In the last two decades, a tense debate has risen over membership policies of the Boy Scouts of America. The organization moved to allow openly gay Scouts in 2013 and troop leaders in 2015. And just this year, a new tran...

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