The Boy Scouts, he said, “finds itself in an unsustainable position” regarding the ban.
“I must speak as plainly and bluntly to you as I spoke to presidents when I was director of CIA and secretary of defense,” Gates told the scout leaders. “We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be. The status quo in our movement’s membership standards cannot be sustained.”
While revoking charters of councils that allowed gay leaders would be allowed under the current policy, he said, “such an action would deny the lifelong benefits of scouting to hundreds of thousands of boys and young men today and vastly more in the future. I will not take that path.”
The ban on gay adults saw its first major challenge last April, when the first openly gay adult was hired as a summer camp leader by the Greater New York Council of Boy Scouts.
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