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Will Scouts Reassess Gay Adult Ban?

Robert Gates, the president of the Boy Scouts of America, says the organization must reassess its ban on gay adults, saying, "We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be." Gates, a former CIA director and former defense secretary, warned officials in the organization in Atlanta today that failure to make changes quickly could spell "the end of us as a national movement." "I am not asking the national board for any action to change our current policy at this meeting," he said. "but I must speak as plainly and bluntly to you as I spoke to presidents when I was director of CIA and secretary of defense"/NPR. More here.

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D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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