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After a month of deliberation following a vote by the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America to allow openly gay Scout leaders, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced that they will go forward with the faith's 102-year association with Scouting, according to a statement released Wednesday morning. The statement came from the church's Council of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who said the BSA assured the church it would be able to appoint Scout leaders based on the faith's values. "In the resolution adopted on July 27, 2015, and in...

On Saturday, December 18, 2019, the United States Senate voted 65-31 to pass legislation lifting the current policy in the United States Military referred to as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". ...In what is presented as a "civil rights" breakthrough, service men and women with same sex attraction will soon be able to openly declare that acting on those sexual desires identifies who they are as persons. In addition, everybody in the military service must accept it and welcome it. They will also be able to openly express those desires in the pattern of their lives as members of the armed...