European Scouts take liberal stance on sex, drugs

ROME, Italy — While the Boy Scouts of America continue to hold to right-wing ideologies of banning gay youth members and leaders, other Scouts around the world are professing their decidedly more liberal views.  In a 2006 survey conducted at a Scout conference, or jamboree, in Italy, more than one-quarter of European Girl Guides and 12 percent of European Boy Scouts said they would consider same-sex experiences. Nine in 10 also reported they expected to have sex before marriage. See European Scouts take liberal stance on sex, drugs