Gays to National Geographic: Condemn Boy Scouts’ ‘Anti-Gay Policy’ Before New Reality Show

The Boy Scouts of America are once again coming under fire from a national gay rights group, this time via a protest of the National Geographic Channel. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation announced Wednesday that it is supporting an online petition asking the cable network to add a disclaimer to the start of each episode of the upcoming reality series “Are You Tougher Than a Boy Scout?”

The petition — started by Will Oliver, a 20-year-old gay Eagle Scoutfrom Duxbury, Mass. — asks that the network “inform viewers about the organization’s dangerous anti-gay policy” and “speak out now to protect gay youth and leaders.”

The Boy Scouts have a longstanding policy of barring openly gay scouts and gay or lesbian adults from serving as scout leaders.
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