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He had powerful supporters. these letters were all written attesting to vance hine's character, including this one from hine's influential mormon bishop, jack moyer. it says, hine is a member of my congregation. i have full faith and trust in him in his dealings with all of our young men at church. he is highly respected and liked. in a deposition bishop moyer, who is now retired, admits he just didn't do enough digging. >> if you had it to do all over again would you have done some investigation? >> absolutely. i wouldn't have written the letter either. >> the bishops attorney puts the blame ...

Lot next to this church every december for more than 50 years. but in 2009, a woman driving a dodge durango pulls into the lot late one night and makes off with a tree. at first when the tree is discovered missing, the scout master, nick coble, assumes there's a logical explanation. >> we have a courtesy cash where somebody can take the tree and they can pay for it. we'll check that and if there's no money in there, then we watch the surveillance videos and that's when we found this. i just couldn't believe that anyone would steal from the boy scouts. >> 2009 is the year they decide to set up ...

At first when the tree is discovered missing, the scout master, nick coble, assumes there's a logical explanation. >> we have a courtesy cash drop where somebody can take the tree and pay for it, and we'll check that. if there's no money in that, then we watch the surveillance videos and that's when we found this. i just couldn't believe that anyone would steal from the boy scouts. >> 2009 is the year they decide to set up surveillance cameras at the lot. >> we lose trees occasionally but we didn't really put the video surveillance in for the catching trees. we put our tree lot security system...

>> i guess i am very, you know, proud of the fact that there's finally, you know, they did change their mind. >> reporter: last may, 61% of the scout's national leadership said it was time to stop the ban on gay boys. >> no matter how you feel about this issue, kids are better off in scouting. >> reporter: one lesbian mom who fought for the change thinks it's only a partial victory. >> it's a small step in the right direction, but it's huge in another way. >> reporter: terrell will not be allowed to serve because the scouts did not lift the ban on gay adults being leaders. and the change has n...

But in 2009, a woman driving a dodge durango pulls into the lot late one night and makes off with a tree. at first when the tree is discovered missing, the scout master, nick coble, assumes there's a logical explanation. >> we have a courtesy cash where someone can take the tree and pay for it and we'll check that. if there's no money in that, then we watch the surveillance videos and that's when we found this. i just couldn't believe that anyone would steal from the boy scouts. >> 2009 is the year they decide to set up surveillance cameras at the lot. >> we lose trees occasionally but we didn...