In Pa., Scouts Refuse to Lift Ban
Chapter to Ignore City's Order to Alter Policy Excluding Gays
By Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 3, 2007

The Boy Scouts in Philadelphia are refusing to break camp.

The city has given the local chapter until today to renounce its policy of excluding gays or forfeit the lease on the grand, Beaux-Arts building it has rented from the city for $1 a year since 1928.

"We're ignoring the deadline," said Mark Chilutti, a member of the Cradle of Liberty Council executive board, which operates the local Scouts chapter. "It was the least bad option we have." the rest