The Boy Scouts of America is telling several media outlets that they are seriously considering a new policy that would end discrimination based on sexual orientation — at least as a national organization policy. Individual troops would be able to set their own rules. This is incredibly good news and I am so proud of all of you who joined in the protest against this policy back in the Summer. Your decisions seem to have made a difference.
Boy Scouts considering an end to discrimination
The Muppets' former creative director made a kids' book with a hole punched through every page
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9-year-old saves choking friend at school using Heimlich learned from YouTube
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Social Media needs warning labels, contributing to teenage mental health crisis says US Surgeon General
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