By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

The Boy Scouts Of America cemented its controversial policy on Tuesday of not allowing open gays to become troop members, and Breaking Celebrity News can exclusively reveal the public discrimination has caused outrage among both gay rights activists and Hollywood stars.

The organization's leaders reached the decision after a nearly two-year evaluation and will take no further action on a resolution that has sought a change in policy, it said in a news release, according to CNN.com.

The scouts' vow of "not granting membership to open or avowed homosexuals" also restricts gays from being scout masters and adds fuel to the fire that was sparked in April after Ohio Cub Scout leader Jennifer Tyrrell was ousted from her son's pack for being a lesbian.

"Hundreds of thousands of Americans including the corporate leaders of Ernst & Young and AT&T, current Eagle Scouts, and celebrities such as Hunger Games star Josh Hutcherson, Julianne Moore, Dianna Agron and Ricky Martin, have spoken out against the ban on gay scouts and gay scout leaders," GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) spokesperson Rich Ferraro told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview.