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The news is out that the Boy Scouts of America, to this point one of the few outfits in these United States of Left to maintain a sensible and principled position on gays and young people, is considering dropping its prohibition against gay scouts and gay scout leaders. Terrific. “Be prepared” may soon have an entire new dimension.
How long before, at the camp-fire of a future BSA outing, we will we hear, “Don’t bother Steve and Bill in their tent. They’re working on their safe sex merit badge”? And how long before a randy, straight Boy Scout, rumbling with the first urgings of puberty, asks to be billeted with the Girl Scouts over the weekend? And if BSA officials decide to enlist gays, how can they say no to this enterprising lad?
BSA has been under tremendous pressure over the past few years to get with it and throw gay and straight scouts and scoutmasters together, and not worry about the results. The organization has apparently finally given in to leftrifugal force, which, in our post-everything Western world, drives everything that is not welded to the ground to the left.
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Simon Templar| 1.29.13 @ 10:47AM
Once again, failure to see the REAL issue here and the unstated premise.
I will use caps to perhaps get it through....
THE LEFT IS FORCING ITS "VALUES" AS THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE SOCIAL, RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL VALUES ON A PRIVATE ORGANIZATION. It assumes the right to DICTATE to all and the rest of us what will be acceptable and what is not. Nothing else will be tolerated or acceptable.
Simon Templar| 1.29.13 @ 11:01AM
Pressure. Then push back. I am sick of the balless, whiny, defensive, and helpless attitude that conservatives and many others have in this nation.
Where is our pressure, where is our opinion, where is our stand, where is our freedom?
PUSH BACK. No, start pushing, stop reacting and act!
Stop accepting the UNSTATED PREMISE that the Left has the right to dictate to the whole nation what is acceptable and what is not in every facet of our lives.
Try 'mind your own damn business and get the hell out of here.'
Everything from where I buy my chicken sandwich to football, to scouting, to health care, to the concept of marriage, to forced tax funded contraception and abortion, to the very constitution itself. They dictate, they intimidate, they attack, and they belittle.
hmm_contrib| 1.29.13 @ 12:07PM
It's a sad day for conservatives when "sensible and principled position" is used to describe an outright ban on a minority.
And pretending that simply having a gay Scout in a troop is somehow inviting public and inappropriate sex among children is trading in the worst type of bigotry. But, this approach to gays is causing the GOP and conservatives to fall further and further behind the American people, so - excelsior.
(And before someone claims that the conservative position on gay marriage is inline with the president's last year or some other singular data point, look up the country's opinion on gays in the military, gays as teachers, gays as parents, or any of the other "gays as normal citizens in civic life" issues where the vast majority of Americans see orientation as being irrelevant)
Bob K| 1.29.13 @ 1:41PM
With all the other problems facing this nation why in the hell should we be wasting any of our concerns on the 4% to 8% or so of the population who are committing genetic suicide?
90% of the balance of the population will not vote to support their life style, and that includes 90% of the Democrats. They will vote for individuals who practice it only if they are smart enough not to rub the voters nose in it but they won't vote for anyone who openly advocates a Homosexual life style above the local level of politics.
If the BSA wants to get caught up in the maudlin babbling about "Gay" rights they will deserve what happens to their organization in the future.
Butch| 1.29.13 @ 3:30PM
The Jerry Sanduskys of this world are a "minority" of sick perverts who gravitate toward little boys as straight as a straight line goes. Look at all the trouble he went to to secure a supply of them for himself. The Boy Scouts have a long history of fighting them off, not always successfully. Unfortunately, they chose to cover up a number of these latter incidents to avoid the negative publicity and resulting parental doubt, all "for the good of the good organization." That was their big mistake.
Goodbye to the Boy Scouts, a once-splendid organization for socializing boys to be good citizens. It says everything about the left that they would continue to harass to Scouts over this issue even after Sandusky was exposed.
Mike W| 1.29.13 @ 12:18PM
Isn't there huge immigrattion catastrophe facing the USA? And we are talking about the Boy Scouts?
Looking at TAS headlines you would think that Sheldon Adelson has bought the staff off also.
mike 3/505| 1.29.13 @ 12:18PM
Let's get this right. This is not about civil rights. This is about a group of leftists foisting aberrant behavior on normal people. The Boy Scouts of America is under no legal or moral obligation to accept folks in their midst who believe it is right, normal and proper for one man to insert his penis in another man's anus for physical pleasure. Let's use the correct terminology and call this stuff what it is...Abnormal, aberrant behavior.
JmsA| 1.29.13 @ 1:54PM
Someone gets it.
mike 3/505| 1.29.13 @ 3:49PM
This will end up being the death of the BSA. No (normal) parents who actually care about their kids, will want them exposed to this.
Stan Redmond| 1.29.13 @ 3:16PM
Well there goes another American institution albeit one started by a questionable man.
I was a boy scout and loved it. Learned a lot. I volunteered for loval troops, donated lots of time, money, and gear. BUT... I hate to punish the local boys but the BSA gets nothing from me. It use to be a place for boys to be boys, cause trouble, and learn some useful skills in one of the last places in America where they can be celebrated as boys. Now, it's nothing more than a social playground for liberal homosexual masterminds to program kids.
spike59| 1.30.13 @ 6:18AM
there are better organizations for parents to check out if they want their sons to learn the same skills, engage in the same activities, AND have moral values reinforced. Christian Service Brigade is one of those-i participated thru High School, and i learned everything that Boy Scouts learned, and even participated in some activities that Boy Scouts (at least the Boy Scouts in our area) never got to do; in addition to camping, archery, fishing, hiking, physical fitness, building model rockets, and building our own shelters deep in the woods, we stayed in those shelters while on a 2 day deer hunt-and all of our meetings included a devotional session of Bible study and discussion
AllAmericanAmerican| 1.29.13 @ 6:15PM
Everyone gets it---it's surprising the leaders of BSA don't.
They can't kill off/remake/"fundamentally transform" the Boy Scouts from the outside so they have to get in. Again, there is NOTHING stopping enterprising gays from forming their own scout group and calling it the Gay Scouts of America or whatever they wanna call it. NOTHING.
Instead what do they do? Infiltrate and destroy. Leftists and their assorted ilk--gays, muslims, feminazis, metrosexual girlie men, blacks and their vicitmology, etc---are like parasites or viruses feeding off the productive, the wholesome, the people who just want to be left alone and life their lives in what remains of America.
It's coming to a head and man oh man it's gonna be a sight to behold when the pot boils over.
Dai Alanye | 1.30.13 @ 9:57AM
On the other hand, that's one less organization to waste a donation on. Saves me a couple bucks a year.