The quote below is directly from the BSA website and no matter how hard I try, I cannot find anything here that justifies an anti-gay stance:
“Being
morally straight means to live your life with honesty, to be
clean in your speech and actions, and to be a person of strong character.” (1)
Therefore I conclude that the official policy of the people
that run the BSA is Homophobic for personal reasons. Good enough for me to give
my Second Class patch and card back if I could find them. And since I am at the very
least an agnostic if not an outright atheist, I wouldn’t be allowed in anyway.
There are other problems with Scouting and their own code.
One of them has to do with obeying the laws of the land. The quote below (my
italics and bold) is from their website:
“By being a good family member and a good citizen, by
working for your country's good and obeying its laws, you do your duty
to your country.” (1)
The laws of this country in both State and Federal statute
protect the rights of all. Gays included. By discriminating against anyone, BSA
and boy scouts individually clearly break the code. They hide behind the “private
organization” shield to keep their discrimination alive. Personally I think it’s
time for the BSA to read their own pledge and try to follow it. And as an
aside, Google Boy Scout Leaders, select images and look at the percentage of
fat bastards. Healthy huh? Try this revised pledge:
On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty to my God (and no one else’s), my country and to obey the Scout Law (even if it conflicts with Federal or State law);
To help other people at all times (except people from the GLBTQ community);
To keep myself physically strong (but fat is OK), mentally awake and morally straight (whatever that means).
To do my duty to my God (and no one else’s), my country and to obey the Scout Law (even if it conflicts with Federal or State law);
To help other people at all times (except people from the GLBTQ community);
To keep myself physically strong (but fat is OK), mentally awake and morally straight (whatever that means).
1. http://usscouts.org/advance/boyscout/bsoathlaw.asp
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well said...
By the way, as I was driving to work today, I heard some of the religion groups comment on radio their hatred towards communism which was very ironic to me considering that religion is in fact a form of communism. Just like in communism, religion has one supreme leader (either god, and/or Pope if you are catholic) that makes all the rules, tells people how to live, controls their lives, and punishes them if they don't follow as they are being told. This brought me to your story that also very much reflects the boy scouts, which again is nothing else but dictatorship/communistic organization. I just find it amusing and sad on how all these people are very vocal about communism while they have been participating in such groups their entire lives. Are these folks just plain stupid or are they in a serious damn denial?
Then I heard a comment on socialism and how they hate Obama's socialistic views, which again we had socialism in this country way before Obama... For example, Public education K12 is government owned and operated, and ideologues of various stripes work continuously to effect social engineering by controlling curricula, text books etc. Therefore, public education is socialism.
So, the moral of the story is lost in the cloud of hypocrisy and human ignorance...
once again you have nailed it. Must be time for another beer lunch. Proof is now open for their own beer and they sell growlers. I'll check the hours and get back to you.
Sounds like a wonderful idea, keep me posted.
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