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April 2, 2015

NY Boy Scouts hire gay Eagle Scout despite national policy

By JENNIFER PELTZ, NEW YORK DAVID CRARY, NEW YORK

NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts' New York chapter said Thursday that it has hired the nation's first openly gay Eagle Scout as a summer camp leader, which is

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