DALLAS — Robert Gates, the new president of the Boy Scouts of America, said Friday that he would have moved last year to allow openly gay adults in the organization but said he opposes any further attempts to address the policy now.

A Chester County public-school district that hosted a Boy Scouts of America recruitment assembly in September has come under criticism.

The Boy Scouts of America announced revised rules this week to emphasize a duty to God and ban political advocacy, leaving a Utah organizer who applied for a troop with gay leaders wondering if applications like his are targeted.

The Center for Inquiry, a New York-based nonprofit that promotes the separation of church and state, is urging a local school district to stop hosting Boy Scouts of America recruitment assemblies.

SEATTLE (AP) -- Seattle's mayor and city council have thrown their support behind a Boys Scouts troop leader in Seattle who was dismissed last month because he is gay.

WASHINGTON -- Republicans are pushing toward Senate approval of legislation demolishing President Barack Obama's signature health care law and halting Planned Parenthood's federal money, setting up a veto fight the GOP knows it will lose but thinks will delight conservative voters.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California Supreme Court's unanimous decision to prohibit state judges from belonging to the Boy Scouts and other youth groups that practice "invidious" discrimination against gays came against the wishes of some jurists with children who are Boy Scouts or who are active in Scouting themselves.

Seventeen men and two women are suing the Boy Scouts of America and local chapters in Connecticut, saying a now-dead scoutmaster sexually abused them when they were children in the 1960s and 1970s. The suit alleges that a few of the accusers were assaulted more than 1,000 times.

eventy-five Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts in Murfreesboro, Tennessee will have to find somewhere else to convene. The church where they have been holding their meetings has asked them to leave over the national organization's acceptance of gay adult leaders. Daily News Journal reports.

LGBT tourism leaders are gathering in Fort Lauderdale this week to discuss trends in the industry and learn how to better serve their respective markets. Now in its 16th year, the Community Marketing & Insights (CMI) LGBT Tourism Conference comes to the Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort, Dec. 9-11.

SALT LAKE CITY  — An activist group that backed the court fight overturning Utah's ban on same-sex marriage is applying to sponsor a Scouting troop after the Boy Scouts of America lifted its ban on gay adult leaders.

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Denver, CO (KDVR) -- A Colorado woman says the Boy Scouts offered her a job and then took it back.