BREAKING: Boy Scouts one step closer to lifting ban on gay leaders

A spokesman for the Boy Scouts of America said today (Monday, July 13), said that the organization’s executive committee voted last Friday, July 10, to end the ban on gay leaders in scouting. The next step is a vote by the entire executive board to ratify the resolution, which is scheduled for July 27. If the executive board approves the move, the change will become effective immediately.
The change will not require councils or troops to allow openly gay leaders. It will simply lift the ban that has prohibited openly gay leaders. In the resolution, the Boy Scouts national organization specifically states that it will “defend and indemnify to the fullest extent allowed by law” any chartered group that is a religious group and is challenged in court for making a “good faith refusal to select a unit leader based upon the religious principles of the chartered organization.”
Today’s vote came after BSA President Robert Gates in May urged that the change be made. The executive committee vote was unanimous.