| July 28, 2005 | - The Boy Scout National Jamboree was held at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. The Senate passed the Support Our Scouts Act of 2005, guaranteeing the Boy Scouts the right to use federal land whether the organization discriminates against atheists and gays or not. The Senate also noted that holding the Jamboree on a military base gave U.S. soldiers the opportunity to practice the “preparation, logistics, and leadership” needed in combat. At the Jamboree four scout leaders were electrocuted while setting up a tent, and three hundred people were treated for heat-related symptoms. In California, a scoutmaster and a thirteen-year-old scout were killed by lightning.
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CNN.com
Source 2:
SWNebr.net
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WBOC16
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Thomas.loc.gov
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| April 3, 2005 | - A former scout master in Houston, Texas, resigned from the Lion's Club and turned himself in for sexually abusing a blind nine-year-old boy.
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Houston Chronicle
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ABC13.com
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| March 29, 2005 | - The Boy Scouts' Director of Programming was arrested on child
pornography charges.
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CNN.com
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| February 26, 2005 | - Dennis Rader, an active Lutheran and a Cub Scout leader in Wichita, Kansas, confessed to six killings as the BTK (“bind, torture, and kill”) serial killer, wanted for thirty-one years.
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| July 3, 2004 | - Little boys in Utah were selling lemonade for $250 a glass to offset a potential $14 million judgment against the Boy Scouts for starting a wildfire.
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Associated Press
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| January 28, 2003 | -
A Pennsylvania couple was charged with fraud for dressing up their seven-year-old son as a Cub Scout and sending him door-to-door seeking donations.
The scam yielded almost $700.
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| December 31, 2002 | -
Thailand's public-health ministry announced that it will distribute condoms to boy and girl scouts who visit the country for the 20th World Scout Jamboree.
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| August 7, 2001 | - Divers recovered most of the 190-million-year-old dinosaur footprints that a group of Boy Scouts pried up and threw into a lake.
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| July 31, 2001 | - A 15-year-old Boy Scout in Utah ripped out dinosaur tracks, believed to be 200 million years old, and tossed them into a reservoir.
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| March 6, 2001 | -
New York City's
Boy Scouts said they would try to convince the national organization to repeal its ban on homosexuals.
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| January 16, 2001 | -
Leaders of the Jewish Reform movement recommended that parents remove their children from the Boy Scouts because the Scouts continue to insist on banning homosexuals—this despite the traditional schoolyard opinion that Boy Scouts are somehow inherently gay.
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| December 26, 2000 | - Major media companies, fearing competition from church groups, community centers, and Boy Scout troops, purchased a piece of legislation that ended the plans of the Federal Communications Commission to license over 1,000 low-power radio stations to small organizations.
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