Famous name leads Boy Scouts in 'gay' change

Also managed Obama's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

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The man who led the U.S. Defense Department through its transition to allowing openly acknowledged homosexuals to serve in the military is set to take over the Boy Scouts of America as the iconic youth organization undergoes a similar historic change.

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who made news last week with the release of a memoir in which he harshly criticizes President Obama’s leadership, was chosen last October to begin a two-year term as BSA president in May 2014.

The Boy Scouts of America began allowing openly “gay” scouts for the first time Jan. 1 after a controversial vote last May by its National Council.

Gates, as defense secretary, backed Obama’s withdrawal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Congress repealed the ban in 2010, and it was lifted in 2011.

Gates earned the BSA’s highest honor, Eagle Scout, as a teen.

In his new memoir, Gates, 70, criticizes Obama’s lack of commitment to the Afghanistan war. Gates writes that in 2010 he had concluded the president “doesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his.”

“For him, it’s all about getting out,” Gates writes in “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.”

Everybody must be on board

In June 2011, when the “Don’t Ask” policy was implemented, Gates declared all military personnel must accept the new rule.

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