The Boy Scouts of America's decision to allow gay youths age 18 and under to remain in the organization is being sharply criticized by several anti-gay leaders including Texas Governor Rick Perry.

Perry, who has made several anti-gay comments and consistently taken positions against LGBT equality, accuses the BSA of bowing to political correctness.

On Thursday (23 May), the 1,400-member National Council of the Boy Scouts of America meeting in Grapevine, Texas, is to vote on whether to end its ban on gay members.

In advance of the vote, the organization's president, Wayne Perry, has come out publicly in favor of allowing scouts to be openly gay saying it is the 'right decision' for the group.

A Republican Texas judge is forcing a lesbian couple and their children apart with a ‘morality clause'.

Carolyn Compton, who was granted divorce from her ex-husband in 2011, is facing a forced separation from her current partner Page Price with whom she’s been in a relationship with for three years.

Locked in a custody dispute over the two children she had with her ex-husband, Compton has now been slapped with a ‘morality clause’ that says anyone who isn’t related by ‘blood or marriage’ cant be around the children past 9 pm.

Olympic swimmer Amini Fonua has come out in his college newspaper, despite studying at one of the least LGBT-friendly schools in the US.

New-Zealand-born Fonua represented the South Pacific islands nation of Tonga in the 100m breastroke competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games. 

Straight afterwards Fonua joined Texas A&M University as a freshman where he has become an active 'Aggie' (the school's nickname) athlete.

Texas Governor Rick Perry is comparing keeping gays and lesbians out of the Boy Scouts of America to fighting against slavery.

With an organization's national executive board set to vote this month on a proposal that would drop a ban on gay members, Perry was among those who appeared on the anti-gay Family Research Council's program Stand With Scouting Sunday.

The proposal continues to ban gay and lesbian adults from being involved in the organization.

The Mormon Church has come out in support of the Boy Scouts of America lifting its longtime ban on gay members.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also endorses the part of the proposal that continues to ban gays and lesbians once they become adults and want to transition to leadership roles in the organization.

The church sponsors more Boy Scout troops than any other religious organization.

An HIV-positive Texas university student only wants an apology from the individuals who papered the school with his personal medical records.

Openly gay Kristopher Sharp, who recently announced his plan to run for student body president at the University of Houston-Downtown, was called into the Dean’s office this week where he was shown a flyer calling his candidacy a ‘homosexual agenda’.

The front side of the flyer showed his photo sandwiched between ‘WANT AIDS?’ and ‘DON’T SUPPORT THE Isaac and Kris HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA’.

Louie Gohmert, a congressman from Texas, compared gay marriage to bestiality during a conference call about gun control laws.

In audio that surfaced this week, Gohmert made the remark while he was participating in a conference call with a new group called Tea Party Unity in February.

During the call, he began talking about 'some wonderful, caring Democrats' who he said had suggested that 'surely you could agree to limit the number of rounds in a magazine, couldn't you?' And they ased, 'How would that be problematic?'

Don't ask Baylor University women's basketball head coach Kim Mulkey if she ever coached a lesbian. The question bores her.

The leader of the defending NCAA women's basketball champions was interviewed by the sports blog OutSports. When asked if she ever had a gay player on her team, Mulkey quickly swatted the question away.

A federal appeals court invalidated Virginia’s law prohibiting sodomy (anal and oral sex) ruling that is unconstitutional.

The three-judge panel of the 4th US circuit court of appeals ruled yesterday (12 March) that the law against oral and anal sex violates the constitution’s due process clause.

A Texas woman is facing jail time after she beat her teenage son with an electrical cord after catching him in bed with another man.

Erica Moore, of Forest Hill, said one night she opened her 15-year-old son’s bedroom door to discover he was not alone, and her teenage male cousin was in the room with him.

CBS-DFW reports as she walked in, she saw her 18-year-old cousin giving oral sex to her 15-year-old son.

A 27-year-old woman was beaten unconscious by a man hurling anti-gay slurs at her after she tried to protect her girlfriend's son from bullies on a Texas playground.

Sondra Scarber's jaw has been wired shut as she recovers from the attack which occured nearly two weeks ago.

She and girlfriend Hillary Causey are frustrated with police who at this point are not considering it a hate crime.