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articlebody">&#13;<br /> &#13;<br /> &#13;</font></p> <p>Before
the end of June, the Supreme Court will decide whether the Boy
Scouts can be forced by antidiscrimination law to accept openly
gay members and scoutmasters. The Scouts argue that "gay
scoutmaster" is a contradiction in terms, going so far as to
claim, in their petition asking the Court to hear the case, that
their function of teaching boys "what it means to be a man"
cannot survive in the presence of men who are gay.&#13;</p>
<p>&#13;<br /> &#13;<br /> &#13;</p> <p>The case began in New
Jersey, where a local Boy Scout council expelled former Eagle
Scout and Junior Scoutmaster James Dale after a newspaper
article appeared in which he was identified as a co-chair of the
gay student group at Rutgers University.