The western Los Angeles County branch of the Boy Scouts of America has become the latest chapter to break with the U.S national organisation over its proposed lifting of a ban against gay scouts while continuing to exclude homosexual adults as troop leaders.

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The western Los Angeles County branch of the Boy Scouts of America has become the latest chapter to break with the U.S national organisation over its proposed lifting of a ban against gay scouts while continuing to exclude homosexual adults as troop leaders.

The council, which represents more than 14,000 scouts and ranks as the nation’s 14th-largest scouting chapter, called for the Texas-based youth organisation to go further by welcoming gays into the ranks of its adult volunteers as well.

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