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The Boy Scouts' vote to allow openly gay boys prompted some supporters and critics of the new policy to swing into action Friday.

Conservative leaders decried the Boy Scouts of America's vote on Thursday to allow openly homosexual boys to join the Scouts, and some people critical of the vote now are working to create a separate scouting organization based on traditional morals.

Is the Boy Scouts' Gay Amendment the 'Beginning of the End' for the Group? While dramatic, the question is one that is currently being asked in the wake of the organization's decision to allow openly-gay children to be members .

As counterintuitive as it may sound for an organization with such a wholesome and all-American reputation, it seems that secrecy and heavy-handed tactics are the order of the day at the Boy Scouts of America meeting that will decide whether the BSA will change its century-old policy to expand its membership to include open and avowed homosexuals.

Touting the Boy Scouts' "landmark" and "historic" decision to allow openly-gay members, CBS, ABC, and NBC gave supporters of the decision three times as many quotes as their opponents got on Friday morning's news stories.

The jury foreman in Jodi Arias' murder trial says the 18 days she spent on the witness stand didn't do her any good.

For proponents of term limits in Texas - a group that defies partisan stereotyping - May has been a disappointing month on the state and local levels.

More than 60% of the group's 1,400-member national council voted Thursday at an annual meeting in Grapevine, Texas, for the change, which takes effect Jan.

James Oliver, left, hugs his brother and fellow Eagle Scout, Will Oliver, who is gay, as supporters carry boxes filled with a petition in front of the Boy Scouts of America headquarters, Feb.

Jennifer Tyrrell hugs Pascal Tessier in Grapevine, Texas. Tyrrell was ousted as a Cub Scout den leader in 2012 and Tessier was told he could not attain the Eagle Scout rank because each was openly gay.

Terri Hall, left, of San Antonio, Texas, stands with her son Nathaniel Hall, 8, as they hold signs near where the Boy Scouts of America are holding their annual meeting Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Grapevine, Texas.

The Boy Scouts of America will vote on a proposal to lift a ban on openly gay scouts that has been in place throughout its 103-year history.

Matthew Ray, 15, of North Richland Hills, Texas, holds signs near where the Boy Scouts of America are holding their annual meeting Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Grapevine, Texas.

12, 2011 file photo, workers in protective suits and masks wait to enter the emergency operation center at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station in Okuma, Japan.

The Boy Scouts of America's national leadership will vote Thursday whether to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks, a critical and emotionally charged moment for one of the nation's oldest youth organizations and its millions of members.

A 43-year-old man was sitting in his Range Rover with his wife in the 100 block of Grand Avenue when he was shot shortly before 7 p.m. near the Victoria's Secret store, Southlake Department of Public Safety Chief Stephen Mylett said.

As protesters made one last stand, the Boy Scouts of America's leadership began a conference Wednesday that was expected to culminate in a long-anticipated vote on whether to allow openly gay Scouts - a decision that, either way, could deeply affect the organization's membership and funding.

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The Boy Scout on the left is 17 and gay. Under proposed new rules to be voted on soon, he can be a member of the Boy Scouts of America.

Boy scouts and cub scouts hold signs at the "Save Our Scouts" Prayer Vigil and Rally in front of the Boy Scouts of America National Headquarters in Irving, Texas on Wednesday, Feb.