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Eagle Scout protests Boy Scouts policy against homosexuals

John Roshell spent almost eight years earning his Eagle Scout badge. At almost 18 years of age, Roshell completed his final badge and entered into the esteemed group of young men who call themselves the Eagle Scouts. But some 12 years later, things have changed. Disheartened by the July Supreme Court decision to allow the Boy Scouts of America to bar homosexuals from their organization, Roshell finally decided that the Boy Scouts of America had become an organization he no longer could consider himself a part of. He felt that his only option was to return his treasured Eagle Scout badge.   More

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