The Nation - News from Oct. 13, 1985
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The Boy Scouts of America said that a youth denied a Life Scout badge for religious reasons has been awarded the rank, and the organization has modified the language of its rules accordingly. Paul Trout, 15, of Shepherdstown, W.Va., was readmitted after scouting officials agreed to delete language defining God as the Supreme Being, the organization said at its headquarters in Irving, Tex. Trout was excluded from advancing to the second-highest rank when he told a review board last April that he did not believe in God or a Supreme Being.
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