Gates is just a high level bureaucrat. Shame on him, and in particular, shame on those who brought him in. This tells me that the Boy Scouts have gone from bad to worse. I don’t see much hope for them in their present situation.
He doesn’t care what is right or wrong - his only concern is short-term politics and media optics. Its what his career in Washington DC has been about.
There it is. He only cares what the cultural elite as defined by New York and Washington think. They run the media, you know.