President Obama, Mitt Romney Agree: Gay Boy Scouts OK
Source: ABC OTUS News
President Obama, Mitt Romney Agree: Gay Boy Scouts OK
By Devin Dwyer | ABC OTUS News 2 hrs 6 mins ago.. .
President Obama and Mitt Romney have found some new common ground -surprisingly - on an issue of gay rights.
Obama today joined Romney in publicly disagreeing with a controversial ban on gay members of the Boy Scouts of America, one of the nation's largest and most well-known youth development groups.
"The president believes the Boy Scouts is a valuable organization that has helped educate and build character in American boys for more than a century. He also opposes discrimination in all forms, and as such opposes this policy that discriminates on basis of sexual orientation," said White House spokesman Shin Inouye in a statement to the Washington Blade, a LGBT newspaper
It's the first time Obama, who was named honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America in 2009, has publicly taken a position on the issue.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/president-obama-mitt-romney-agree-gay-boy-scouts-004006433--abc-news-politics.html
proud patriot
(100,705 posts)goclark
(30,404 posts)I want to see those words come out of Rmoneys mouth before I
believe his lip flops.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)My money is on mittens flipping his position or "clarifying" in 24 hours
You can't let us down now Stiffler!
Chemisse
(30,809 posts)The tea partiers are NOT going to like this.