The UUA and the Boy Scouts of America:
A Continuing Struggle for Inclusiveness

Pre-1999 Media Coverage of UUA/Boy Scout Conflict

• "Boy Scouts, Church Spar on Gay Issue"
  by Diego Ribadeneira, Boston Globe, July 21, 1998.

• Boy Scouts' Quarrel with Unitarians Stirs Some Anger
  by Diego Ribadeneira, Boston Globe, July 22, 1998

• "Views of Homosexuality put Unitarians, Boy Scouts in Conflict"
  by Kathleen A. Shaw, Telegram & Gazette, July 22, 1998

• "Boy Scouts, Unitarians Reach Parting of the Ways",
  by Steve Kloehn, Chicago Tribune, July 24, 1998

• "Unitarian Universalist Church Blasts Back at the Boy Scouts of America",
  Gay Today on-line magazine

• "Boy Scouts Take on Unitarians Over Gay Rights",^**
  Rosalind Bentley, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, July 25, 1998

• "Unitarians, Boys Scouts in Tiff Over Religion Award",
  by Holly J. Lebowitz, Religion News Service , July 30, 1998

• "Unitarians Taking Boy Scouts to Task
  Local Church Members To Protest Stand on Gays" ^**
  by Caryle Murphy and Hanna Rosin, Washington Post, August 1, 1998

• "On my honor. Reflections on the war between
  the Boy Scouts and the Unitarian Universalists
  -- by someone with a foot in both camps"
  by Dan Kennedy, Boston Phoenix, July 30 - August 6, 1998

• Intolerance as Policy
  by Bill Maxwell, St. Petersburg Times, August 9, 1998

• "Scouts move to sever Unitarian ties"
  by Rhonda Smith, Washington Blade, August 14, 1998

• "Unitarian Badges Unfit for BSA",
  NewsPlanet, August 28, 1998

• Boy Scouts and the UUA,
  by Donald E. Skinner, World, Sept/Oct 1998

• Boy Scouts and Unitarian Universalists
  by Martin E. Marty, Sightings, October 13, 1998

^** Articles are still available online, but no longer without a charge.
You may purchase a copy from the archives of the Washington Post and Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune.

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