By John Mack Freeman
The Executive Committee of the Boy Scouts of America voted 17-0 to recommend to end the organization’s ban on gay and bisexual adult leaders of scout troops. Via Queerty:
“This change allows Scouting’s members and parents to select local units, chartered to organizations with similar beliefs, that best meet the needs of their families,” a BSA statement said.
Two months ago, former US defense secretary and current president of BSA Robert Gates called for an end to the ban, warning Scout executives that “we must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be,” and that “any other alternative will be the end of us as a national movement.”
A month before Gates’ comments, the Scouts’ New York chapter openly defied the ban by hiring 18-year-old Pascal Tessier as a camp counselor.
The decision will go to a full vote of the full 80-member executive board for approval.
