Could be and if so, thanks for the correction...if it’s not here on FR, I don’t keep up with what they’re doing any longer...I’m still trying to get that knife out of my back...the one the BSA slipped in during the time between the Scouting survey +60% against the change to the Convention where that suddenly went to +60% for the change...I’m still trying to figure that one out...not.
Along with every other conservative. But it's probable that at least two Trojan horse board members were instrumental in placing their own trolls in places of power in very short order.
36 Robert Gates is slated to be the next National President...his history precedes him as it relates to homosexuality...
38 Robert Gates is slated to be the next National President...his history precedes him as it relates to homosexuality...
I thought he already is? Hard to believe he used to be president of the very conservative Texas A&M University.
... and a past director of the CIA and president of the National Eagle Scout Association.
41 Could be and if so, thanks for the correction...if it’s not here on FR, I don’t keep up with what they’re doing any longer...
10/29/2013 – “Former Secretary of Defense Dr. Robert M. Gates elected to National Executive Board; will serve as an executive vice president and national president-elect”
Gates elected to BSA National Executive Board
Upon approval of the voting members of the National Council at the next annual business meeting during MAY 2014 in Nashville, TN, Gates would begin a 2-year term as the BSA national president. Coincidentally, Nashville was where the splinter Scouting organization, Trail Life USA, was founded in SEP 2013. It is also where the Southern Baptist Convention has its headquarters.
2/25/2014 – “Retired Defense Secretary Robert Gates enjoys Skagit home before taking Boy Scouts top job”
Retired SoD Robert Gates enjoys Skagit home
... "I think they (BSA) took an important step forward saying that gay youths can be in Scouts," he says. "And I strongly support that. I think now, certainly for the period that I am president, I think that there is a focus on trying to heal the organization, heal the divisions that were caused by the debate and refocusing on the program itself."
The scouting program is especially important now, he says, at a time when 3 out of 4 Americans between the ages of 18 and 25 don't qualify to join the military. Most of that is due to physical issues, including obesity, diabetes and asthma.
"I think any program that teaches leadership and character but also gets kids out of the house and into the out of doors and learning skills is ever more important today," he says. "And particularly with so many of them basically being couch potatoes with the video games and the electronics and so on."
Scouting also teaches kids how to lead people their own age, a skill Gates found extremely useful during his career. He has a long history with the Boy Scouts — both he and his older brother are Eagle Scouts, and he has a 1918 photo of his father in a scouting uniform.
Gates is stepping in at a time when many advocacy groups are calling for the Boy Scouts to also allow openly gay adult leaders.
"The beauty of CIA and the military is at the end of the day, when the law has changed or the policy changed, you can just tell people," he says. "(Boy Scouts of America is) a volunteer organization, the volunteers had a big debate and they had a huge vote and the vote was pretty strong in favor of letting gay youths be in scouting, but it's clear that there's still a lot of reluctance to take the next step. We'll see."