After a two year review the Boy Scouts of America decided to keep their ban on gay members and leaders. I would link to a news story on this item but when I Googled the story all I got was stuff like: "What to make of the Boy Scouts of America?" a Boston Globe story that highlighted the "injustice" and featured two prominent members of the BSA board of directors that vowed to fight the policy. I mention their names, Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T and fellow Board member James Turley, CEO of Ernst & Young, if for some reason you just awoke from a 20 year sleep and had no idea how the rich elite of the country feel about things.
There was also a bunch of stories of some Texas dyke mom that wants to continue to be a troop leader and is passing out petitions to try and change the decision. (Now if I were a gay mom and the BSA didn't want me to be a den mother I would say "cool, less work for me!" but that is too much too expect from some people).
Other headlines:
Boy Scouts reaffirms ban on gays. Is it out of step with the times?
Ousted Boy Scouts leader won't give up gay rights fight.
I went 3 pages through google and couldn't find a story that wasn't just a thinly disguised editorial against the policy. I just wanted a basic news story. If I was paranoid I would think there was a media bias or something.
My own feelings on the issue are 'good for them' and let me follow that up by saying I bet that in 10 years they will be handing out badges for transgenderism, same-sex experimentation, and admitting young lezzies that think they are boys.
I've had my son in the scouts and the PC-ism is as thick there as anywhere else. I have no doubt that the recent decision was based wholly on the advice of their lawyers who basically pointed at Penn State and said "want some of that?" That and they were given cover by a Supreme Court decision a few years ago that narrowly said, yes you can, as a private organization, decide to associate with homo's or not. I expect that to soon be revisited. However in the meantime it's a small win for decency.
My take on the adult members of the Boy Scouts that I knew were that they were a bunch of guys and gals who still thought some semblance of America 1.0 existed, and by golly they were going to keep at it even if they had to hand out badges on "diveristy, handicap awareness, and adjust the religion portion of the scouts to include Hindu's and Muslims and paganism.
I do appreciate the old tyme emphasis on uniforms, discipline, oaths, outdoorsmenship, respect for adults and all that other stuff along with the implicit Whiteness of the group, for example there are virtually no Troops in the city of Detroit, yet rural communities of under a thousand can have a couple.
Unfortunately that emphasis on traditional values tries to mix with cultymarxy society and results in an unseemly alliance. Endless paeons to the US flag and the cult of diversity. A high nerd content, lots of India-indian kids and Korean kids (in my area) because the successful people of those groups worship the old America 1.0; often it being the reason they have come here, so you have all these non-whites trying to be traditional White which doesn't work because..well... basically they're not White.
I do appreciate the effort though.
There was also a bunch of stories of some Texas dyke mom that wants to continue to be a troop leader and is passing out petitions to try and change the decision. (Now if I were a gay mom and the BSA didn't want me to be a den mother I would say "cool, less work for me!" but that is too much too expect from some people).
Other headlines:
Boy Scouts reaffirms ban on gays. Is it out of step with the times?
Ousted Boy Scouts leader won't give up gay rights fight.
I went 3 pages through google and couldn't find a story that wasn't just a thinly disguised editorial against the policy. I just wanted a basic news story. If I was paranoid I would think there was a media bias or something.
My own feelings on the issue are 'good for them' and let me follow that up by saying I bet that in 10 years they will be handing out badges for transgenderism, same-sex experimentation, and admitting young lezzies that think they are boys.
I've had my son in the scouts and the PC-ism is as thick there as anywhere else. I have no doubt that the recent decision was based wholly on the advice of their lawyers who basically pointed at Penn State and said "want some of that?" That and they were given cover by a Supreme Court decision a few years ago that narrowly said, yes you can, as a private organization, decide to associate with homo's or not. I expect that to soon be revisited. However in the meantime it's a small win for decency.
My take on the adult members of the Boy Scouts that I knew were that they were a bunch of guys and gals who still thought some semblance of America 1.0 existed, and by golly they were going to keep at it even if they had to hand out badges on "diveristy, handicap awareness, and adjust the religion portion of the scouts to include Hindu's and Muslims and paganism.
I do appreciate the old tyme emphasis on uniforms, discipline, oaths, outdoorsmenship, respect for adults and all that other stuff along with the implicit Whiteness of the group, for example there are virtually no Troops in the city of Detroit, yet rural communities of under a thousand can have a couple.
Unfortunately that emphasis on traditional values tries to mix with cultymarxy society and results in an unseemly alliance. Endless paeons to the US flag and the cult of diversity. A high nerd content, lots of India-indian kids and Korean kids (in my area) because the successful people of those groups worship the old America 1.0; often it being the reason they have come here, so you have all these non-whites trying to be traditional White which doesn't work because..well... basically they're not White.
I do appreciate the effort though.