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Article: Boy Scouts grows to a record enrollment.
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2000
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Activists for homosexuals have battled publicly with the Boy Scouts of America for nearly two decades over the Scouts' ban on homosexual leaders, and membership in the Scouts has climbed as the conflict has intensified.
"During the last three years, we've grown by 7 percent," said Gregg Shields, spokesman for the Boy Scouts, which finished last year with 6.2 million members - 5 million youths and 1.2 million adults.
"The net result is that we're approaching record-high membership. . . . We're doing very well, thank you," Mr. Shields said in a recent telephone interview from his office in Dallas.
He noted that the last time the Boy Scouts ...