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And i'm very excited about that. >> are you going to do that today? >> i am going to do that today, yes. >> tell me why. tell me about that. what is so important about the scouts for you? >> it's important to me because it's a ministry at my church that i've been involved in. my church is a stewardship perishper parrish, and as a member of that church, we are expected to get involved in different ministries. i've been involved with the scouts for the last 11 years. the boys are very dear to me. i've helped them through numerous phases of the scouting program. i've got some who are very close n...

Who are openly gay and serving as scout leaders, we'll set examples and ease people's fears about what it means to be an openly gay scout leader. one of the things about scouting is that there are protections in place called too deep leadership and no one on one contact that protect youth from any kind of inappropriate action by scout leaders and it protects leaders like me because if you have two adults present, you don't have to worry about any false claims being made. so the scouting program has already thought about these thing and they have safeguards in place. >> and the mormons, they're...

Scouting as flourished in lds units. i think it's something they're struggling with right now but given time they will make the right decision and mel come gay leaders as well. >> let me get your reaction to one of the statements because the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints says it's deeply troubled by the voted aing when the leadership of the church resumes its regular schedule of meetings in august, the century long association with scouting will need to be examined. what would you like to say to them in terms of making a decision about this? >> well, i would encourage them to ple...

Firm headed by a republican strategist. and some critics are suggesting maybe these questions that they were written in a very specific way to illicit a very specific kind of response. we've reached out to north star and we're still waiting to hear back, but the boy scouts, they say it was a third party, it was fairly done. the survey was fairly done. and so now they're waiting for the responses. >> and so what will happen with those responses? >> well, the boy scouts of america they say they're going to listen, they're going -- it's about a million responses they're going to get from the volu...

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