The head of Springfield's Boy Scout Council says it's too soon to say what might happen if the national scouting organization drops its blanket policy against participation by gay scouts and scoutmasters.
The Boy Scouts of America will vote next week on a revised policy that would leave it up to local scouting groups to decide if they will maintain the policy against gays in the scouts.
Dan O'Brien with the Abraham Lincoln Council... which covers Sangamon and parts of eight other counties... says if that policy is implemented, the next step would be up to individual scouting units and the organizations that charter them... including churches and veterans' groups.
