The executive committee of the Boy Scouts of America has unanimously
approved a resolution that would end the organization's blanket ban on
gay adult leaders and let individual scout units set their own policy on
the long-divisive issue.
In a statement Monday, the BSA said the resolution
was approved by the 17-member executive committee on Friday, and would
become official policy if ratified by the organization's 80-member
National Executive Board at a meeting on July 27.
The committee action follows an emphatic speech in
May by the BSA's president, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates,
declaring that the longstanding ban on participation by openly gay
adults was no longer sustainable.
