President Barack Obama says that the boy scouts should be open to homosexual individuals.

For the BSA national executive meeting this week, President Obama has advised that the Boy Scouts open their door to gay and lesbian persons. President Obama states that the Boy Scouts are "a great institution"  and that  “no one should be banned from that.” The Boy Scouts had announced its intentions to consider altering its longstanding ban on gay and lesbian individuals at the next executive meeting. The white house has said before that it opposed the boys scouts denying entrance to homosexuals. The announcement to reconsider has sparked mixed different responses among different factions. The more liberal factions have expressed adulation whole the more conservative side has shown alarm. I have been a member of the Boy Scouts of America for 9 years. I can see how those in favor of gay entrance into the Boy Scouts of America, but the biggest problem is the increased risk of problems developing with sexual harassment. On this subject I have heard various parental conversations between the parents of Boy Scouts in my troop. They state that they would not want a homosexual individual staying overnight alone with their children.