New York Investigates Whether Boy Scouts’ Employment Practices Discriminated Against Gays

The New York State attorney general's office has opened an inquiry into the Boy Scouts of America's hiring practices to determine whether the group has discriminated as an employer against gays.

The office will ask Wayne Brock, the chief scout executive of the Boy Scouts' national organization, for detailed information on the group's involvement in hiring decisions there and at its local councils. The request comes three weeks after the Boy Scouts' New York City affiliate said it had hired a gay Eagle Scout to work in a scout camp this summer.