Boy Scouts to make policy decision on gays this week — or will they?

The Great Salt Lake Council, one of the largest Scout councils in the nation, has organized a coalition of 33 Scout councils representing more than half a million boys to ask the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America to delay the vote on a controversial proposal to eliminate its national policy prohibiting homosexuals from joining or leading Scout troops. In a message posted on its website Monday, the council expressed its “concern about the pace at which such actions are being taken.”