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Its as good/bad as allowing a girl to be in a boy scouts team where there is a great chance for the weaker(/sarc) sex to get molested. Instead why not have an exclusive gay scouts team where everyone can feel at home. I'm sure there is no way that can be called discrimination as we already have been discriminating 'boy scouts' and 'girl scouts' for ages.

I'm sorry to undermine your argument but I discovered recently that they have been admitting girls into the Boy Scouts for some time. I have spoken to some of these girls and they seem to be doing OK. BTW they did not appear to be lesbian.

As for the gay scouts, I too am concerned about the recent decision. But I'm not sure if it would be better to have a 100% gay troop that is all about being gay. I did know one boy who came out as gay after he had been in the Boy Scouts. At the time he was in the Scouts I always thought he was a nice kid and my impression was that he was a good scout. If there were any problems concerning his membership, I don't know about them. But I'm not sure that there wouldn't be problems in other cases. I do agree that gays should not be scout leaders.

I'm sorry to undermine your argument but I discovered recently that they have been admitting girls into the Boy Scouts for some time.

Yep. Since about 1970. I was a member of one of the first co-ed Explorer posts.