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Churches grapple with whether to cut Boy Scout ties

Churches are huge sponsors of Boy Scout troops, which is what made the debate over the new policy on gay boys so difficult. 

Churches are split on whether to abandon the scouts.

By Gloria Goodale,

 Staff writer 

 May 30, 2013 

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Boy Scouts salute during New Jersey's Boy Scouts Camporee in Sea Girt, N.J., May 2011. 

The Boy Scouts of America's National Council voted at their annual meeting in Texas on May 23 to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as scouts. 

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