Past time for Boy Scouts to end ban on gay scout leaders

The Boy Scouts of America will have to confront its bigoted national policy of not hiring openly gay people now that its New York chapter has made a gay Eagle Scout a summer camp leader. It should be an easy call for the 105-year-old organization.

Drop the ban.

Hiring Pascal Tessier, the nation's first openly gay adult Scout leader, was a bold move. It's a direct challenge to the policy the national organization adopted in 2013 that allows openly gay youth as Scouts, but not gay adults as leaders. Since then, there has been a dramatic change in public sentiment on gay rights.

The Scout's discriminatory hiring practices are downright antediluvian. The organization should sieze the moment to get on the right side of history.