Eric Holder Blasts Boy Scouts’ Ban on Gay Troop Leaders
June 11, 2014 | Read Time: 1 minute
Attorney General Eric Holder criticized the Boy Scouts of America Tuesday for maintaining its prohibition on gay adults serving in leadership positions with the organization, saying the ban “preserves and perpetuates the worst kind of stereotypes,” USA Today reports.
Speaking to Lambda Legal, an advocacy group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights, Mr. Holder called the Scouts policy “a relic of an age of prejudice and insufficient understanding.”
The Boy Scouts’ national council voted last year to end a longstanding membership ban on openly gay youths but has continued to draw fire from gay-rights groups and lose corporate support for retaining its bar of homosexual adults. Robert Gates, the organization’s new president, has said he backs allowing gay adults but accepts the council’s decision.
