OUTRAGE!

President of the Boy Scouts says longstanding ban on gay adults is no longer sustainable: http://t.co/0aTtUhABFj

— The Associated Press (@AP) May 21, 2015

The national president of the Boy Scouts of America, Robert Gates, said Thursday that the organization’s longstanding ban on participation by openly gay adults is no longer sustainable, and called for change in order to avert potentially destructive legal battles.

In a speech in Atlanta to the Scouts’ national annual meeting, Gates referred to recent moves by Scout councils in New York City and elsewhere to defy the ban.

“The status quo in our movement’s membership standards cannot be sustained,” he said.