Hot! Boy Scouts Should Let In Gay Members - President Obama

President Obama on Sunday said the Boy Scouts of America should end its ban on gay members and scout leaders.

With the venerable national organization weighing whether to lift its prohibition of gays, Obama was asked in a Super Bowl pre-game interview with CBS s Scott Pelley whether the Boy Scouts should be open to gays

Obama gave a one-word answer: Yes.

Pressed to elaborate, Obama said, I think that my attitude is that gays and lesbians should have access and opportunity the same way everybody else does in every institution and walk of life.

Boy Scouts leaders are expected to discuss lifting its ban on gays at the organization s national executive board meeting this week in Texas.

On Saturday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican presidential candidate in 2012, spoke to a group of Texas scouts and urged the organization to maintain its policies prohibiting openly gay members .

Hopefully the board will follow their historic position of keeping the Scouts strongly supportive of the values that make scouting this very important and impactful organization, Perry said, according to the Associated Press.

Perry, a former Eagle Scout, wrote a book in 2008 titled, On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For.