Disgusted by an email I just got RE: Boy Scouts

[heightsyankee]

Feb 6, 2013 10:38:33 GMT -5 @angryharpy said:

OMG. My head. It's going to explode.

Prohibiting gay Scouts has not protected the BSA in anyway, as it is currently facing investigation over a sex abuse cover up of epic proportions. The BSA sex abuse scandal hasn't received nearly as much press as the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal has, but it's definitely of a severity that warrants mentioning the two together.

This morning on NPR, I heard someone from a Texas "family values" interest group bemoaning that the Boy Scouts should not change their policies due to pressure from "corporate America" and "homosexual activists." He cited the fact that the BSA had won a SCOTUS case. I wanted to throw things. Yes, SCOTUS ruled that the Scouts don't have to include gay members and leaders. But that doesn't change the rights of individuals and organizations to stop financially supporting BSA in light of discriminatory policies.

Except that they made this "policy" because of pressure from "religious fundamentalists" and "bigots." Ugh

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1. I thought the decision had already been made to throw this decision back to the local chapters?
2. Love how they try too scare you by equating gays with creepy pedophiles....and neglect to mention the boys who cannot be scouts because of the policy

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Cowards. If you want to be narrowminded and offensive, at least own it.

[msmerymac]

The Catholic Church doesn't "allow" gay leaders, and that's totally done a lot to protect children from child molestation.

Soozy seems like the type who wouldn't let her daughter have a playdate at the house of a SAHD unless she was present. Because all men are scary!

[taratru]

I hate engaging the crazy, but just so I can say I said something, I will.

If people like you, soozy, are so afraid of the gay, don't put your kids in Boy Scouts. It's not the fucking Hitler Youth; not all little boys have to join. However, they the BSA DOES have to follow discrimination laws. The End.

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Feb 6, 2013 12:52:55 GMT -5 taratru said:

I hate engaging the crazy, but just so I can say I said something, I will.

If people like you, soozy, are so afraid of the gay, don't put your kids in Boy Scouts. It's not the fucking Hitler Youth; not all little boys have to join. However, they the BSA DOES have to follow discrimination laws. The End.

Actually, SCOTUS ruled years ago that the BSA has the right to discriminate. The potential change in policy is coming primarily because many corporations and non-profits are no longer providing financial support to BSA because of those organizations' non-discrimination policies. Further, the proposed change would not actually make BSA non-discriminatory; it would simply leave it up to the individual councils.

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I just entered this thread and I don't know what the hell soozy is blathering about. Gay or not, you can't share a tent with a kid who isn't related to you.

Plus, gay men aren't more likely to be pedophiles than straight ones and contrary to popular believe, gay men aren't oversexed assholes who want to press their attentions on every poor, unsuspecting straight they come in contact with.

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Look, if the YMCA isn't a den of iniquity, I'm pretty sure the BSA will survive.

[taratru]

Feb 6, 2013 13:10:55 GMT -5 @angryharpy said:

Feb 6, 2013 12:52:55 GMT -5 taratru said:

I hate engaging the crazy, but just so I can say I said something, I will.

If people like you, soozy, are so afraid of the gay, don't put your kids in Boy Scouts. It's not the fucking Hitler Youth; not all little boys have to join. However, they the BSA DOES have to follow discrimination laws. The End.

Actually, SCOTUS ruled years ago that the BSA has the right to discriminate. The potential change in policy is coming primarily because many corporations and non-profits are no longer providing financial support to BSA because of those organizations' non-discrimination policies. Further, the proposed change would not actually make BSA non-discriminatory; it would simply leave it up to the individual councils.

Yeah, well...they SHOULD have to follow them.  Or something.  Damnit. 

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Feb 6, 2013 10:39:37 GMT -5 meggers5 said:

Ugh what drives me nuts about Boy Scouts (and Soozy) is that they seem to think gay men like all things male. No. Gay men like adult men. Gay women like adult women. Pedophiles like children.
There is no correlation between homosexuality and pedophilia.

And a number of pedophiles are married to women.....e.g. Sandusky