Amid national pressure and plummeting membership, the Boy Scouts of America this year finally began to accept openly gay members. But the breakthrough came with a huge asterisk: The organization continues to ban gay scout leaders. As if to make that point loud and crassly clear, it last week revoked the charter of a troop in Seattle for standing by an openly gay scoutmaster. Geoff McGrath, 49, is just the kind of role model young people need: An Eagle Scout, software engineer, and outdoorsman who sails on Puget Sound and camps in Mount Rainier’s crater. And the Boy Scout troop at Rainier Beach United Methodist caters to a diverse community. Its other troop leaders are African American and Vietnamese. The church’s minister, Monica Corsaro, said McGrath is but “one part of a beautiful community. There was no hiding, no secret keeping. We had nothing to hide.”