Reform Jewish leaders in the United States recommended that parents withdraw their children from Boy Scout chapters and that synagogues end their sponsorship of Scout troops. The recommendation is believed to be the strongest reaction yet to a U.S. Supreme Court decision last June allowing the Boy Scouts to exclude homosexuals.
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