Italy's Scouts open doors to LGBT+ Scout leaders

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 28 - Italy's Scouts have opened the door to LGBT+ Scout leaders. The council of the Italian Association of Catholic Guides and Scouts (AGESCI) on Thursday approved a document stating that sexual orientation cannot be a reason to exclude some who wants to be a Scout leader. "AGESCI has reached the conclusion that... emotional orientation and gender identity cannot constitute exclusion criteria in the discernment that community leaders are called upon to exercise when an adul...

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