Posted on 07/23/2005 10:39:02 PM PDT by Coleus
by Aaron Atwood, assistant editor
TV's Food Network takes Boy Scout idea off the table.
When the Food Network asked "How do you Iron Chef?" on its Web site, Boy Scout Troop 99 of Colorado Springs responded. They were accepted—then rejected because they pledge to "being morally straight."
The troop had been doing Iron Chef competitions at campouts and Scoutmaster Dave Maher thought a vignette of his troop cooking up a storm would make a great promo for the company.
The competition gives two chefs an identical cache of food and challenges each to outdo the other in creativity and taste. Maher's crew takes cooking seriously and had the Boy Scout version of the popular TV program down to a science. Maher said some of the food threw the Scouts for a loop.
"One of the foods I put in initially was an eggplant," Maher said. "A lot had never seen it before."
Maher answered the casting call and the producers responded. In a few weeks Maher was discussing with the show's staff the logistics of hauling cameras to its next campout. Would there be electricity? Do you need parking? What date works best?
The excitement faded when Food Network producers took the idea to parent company, E.W. Scripps.
"It went to Scripps for a rubber stamp but got shot down at corporate approval," Maher explained. "Scripps was unwilling to work with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) because of the Boy Scouts' position—policies which they perceive are the Boy Scouts' discriminatory practices on gays."
This isn't the first time BSA has been singled out for a perceived anti-gay agenda. Several lawsuits have been brought against the nearly century-old organization by the American Civil Liberties Union in recent years. In fact, Congress is getting involved after the Department of Defense balked at allowing Boy Scouts to use military facilities. As Scouts from around the world converged on Fort A.P. Hill, Va. for the 2005 National Scout Jamboree, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., took to the floor of the Senate to propose the Support Our Scouts Act 2005.
"This legislation . . . is necessary to press back on the lawsuits that seek to sever the ties between our military, which has hosted the Boy Scout Jamboree on its bases, and the Boy Scouts of America," he said. "America's youth can learn so much from the men and women in uniform today: love of country, commitment to values, sacrifice for others. It is simply wrongheaded to conclude that Pentagon support of the Boy Scouts of America violates the establishment clause. It is time to return some common sense to the courts."
The lawsuits stem from the unabashed religious thread woven through BSA policy. In 2002 the Executive Board of BSA issued a resolution stating, "(T)he national officers agree with the report that 'duty to God is not a mere ideal for those choosing to associate with the Boy Scouts of America; it is an obligation,' which has defined good character for youth of Scouting age throughout Scouting's 92-year history and that the Boy Scouts of America has made a commitment 'to provide faith-based values to its constituency in a respectful manner.' "
The resolution continued in waters where many politically correct are unwilling to tread: "WHEREAS the national officers further agree that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the traditional values espoused in the Scout Oath and Law and that an avowed homosexual cannot serve as a role model for the values of the Oath and Law."
The Scripps decision to nix the Boy Scouts' campout would have little consequence had it only affected Maher. However, Forrest Eaglin, a 12-year-old Tenderfoot in Troop 99 had to come to terms with the fact that he wasn't considered worth being on TV because of the oath he'd taken.
"I was really amazed (at being on the Food Network) because this has pretty much never happened in the troop," he said. "Everybody was thrilled."
But when they got the message that the deal was off?
"I felt really disappointed. We were, like, all excited to have them come and film us. It really bummed us out."
Eaglin will still go on the July camping trip. He's excited because he has earned enough rank to sleep in his own tent. But the Food Network will miss the opportunity to show what America truly values—not the Iron Chef—the Iron Will.
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Congratulations....now that your PC Idiots have screwed over the Boy Scouts, not only will I ban your network from my house, I will be PERSONALLY leading the charge to have yor FCC License pulled for YOUR discriminatory act towards the Boy Scouts, AND will be contacting My Reps and Senators to have FED Law come down on you! Oh, lets not forget the SPONSORS that will get a PUBLIC boycotting like you have NEVER seen! Thanks for providing such a convenient list and link to them...(LINK to them here...down on the left.)
See, the Boy Scouts have the LAW on their side, as a PRIVATE organization, they can and DO maintain standards...unlike your "Iron Chefs" Bobby Flay and Mario Battali...who managed to let their own politics spill into THEIR restaraunts (Pro-Kerry). I guess THAT was OK with you....that they could piss off their own clients and thus reflect badly on YOUR network was ok, huh?
In case you are clueless as to what the problem is....read this.
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""Food Network Reneges on Boy Scout Troop" "
by Aaron Atwood, assistant editor
TV's Food Network takes Boy Scout idea off the table.
When the Food Network asked "How do you Iron Chef?" on its Web site, Boy Scout Troop 99 of Colorado Springs responded. They were accepted—then rejected because they pledge to "being morally straight."
The troop had been doing Iron Chef competitions at campouts and Scoutmaster Dave Maher thought a vignette of his troop cooking up a storm would make a great promo for the company.
The competition gives two chefs an identical cache of food and challenges each to outdo the other in creativity and taste. Maher's crew takes cooking seriously and had the Boy Scout version of the popular TV program down to a science. Maher said some of the food threw the Scouts for a loop.
"One of the foods I put in initially was an eggplant," Maher said. "A lot had never seen it before."
Maher answered the casting call and the producers responded. In a few weeks Maher was discussing with the show's staff the logistics of hauling cameras to its next campout. Would there be electricity? Do you need parking? What date works best?
The excitement faded when Food Network producers took the idea to parent company, E.W. Scripps.
"It went to Scripps for a rubber stamp but got shot down at corporate approval," Maher explained. "Scripps was unwilling to work with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) because of the Boy Scouts' position—policies which they perceive are the Boy Scouts' discriminatory practices on gays."
This isn't the first time BSA has been singled out for a perceived anti-gay agenda. Several lawsuits have been brought against the nearly century-old organization by the American Civil Liberties Union in recent years. In fact, Congress is getting involved after the Department of Defense balked at allowing Boy Scouts to use military facilities. As Scouts from around the world converged on Fort A.P. Hill, Va. for the 2005 National Scout Jamboree, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., took to the floor of the Senate to propose the Support Our Scouts Act 2005.
"This legislation . . . is necessary to press back on the lawsuits that seek to sever the ties between our military, which has hosted the Boy Scout Jamboree on its bases, and the Boy Scouts of America," he said. "America's youth can learn so much from the men and women in uniform today: love of country, commitment to values, sacrifice for others. It is simply wrongheaded to conclude that Pentagon support of the Boy Scouts of America violates the establishment clause. It is time to return some common sense to the courts."
The lawsuits stem from the unabashed religious thread woven through BSA policy. In 2002 the Executive Board of BSA issued a resolution stating, "(T)he national officers agree with the report that 'duty to God is not a mere ideal for those choosing to associate with the Boy Scouts of America; it is an obligation,' which has defined good character for youth of Scouting age throughout Scouting's 92-year history and that the Boy Scouts of America has made a commitment 'to provide faith-based values to its constituency in a respectful manner.' "
The resolution continued in waters where many politically correct are unwilling to tread: "WHEREAS the national officers further agree that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the traditional values espoused in the Scout Oath and Law and that an avowed homosexual cannot serve as a role model for the values of the Oath and Law."
The Scripps decision to nix the Boy Scouts' campout would have little consequence had it only affected Maher. However, Forrest Eaglin, a 12-year-old Tenderfoot in Troop 99 had to come to terms with the fact that he wasn't considered worth being on TV because of the oath he'd taken.
"I was really amazed (at being on the Food Network) because this has pretty much never happened in the troop," he said. "Everybody was thrilled." But when they got the message that the deal was off?
"I felt really disappointed. We were, like, all excited to have them come and film us. It really bummed us out."
Eaglin will still go on the July camping trip. He's excited because he has earned enough rank to sleep in his own tent. But the Food Network will miss the opportunity to show what America truly values—not the Iron Chef—the Iron Will."
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See...these kids do NOT need you...but you most DEFINITELY need them...their demographic...and don't forget the PARENTS AND FAMILIES and Friends that will now join in this.
Your PC Days and attitudes are so pre 9/11, and so reflective of that arrogant Bubble of a city called New York....here's to hoping that smart celebs like Alton Brown and Paula Dean will realize that working with you taints them, and ultimately...they don't NEED you!
The excitement faded when Food Network producers took the idea to parent company, E.W. Scripps."It went to Scripps for a rubber stamp but got shot down at corporate approval," Maher explained. "Scripps was unwilling to work with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) because of the Boy Scouts' position—policies which they perceive are the Boy Scouts' discriminatory practices on gays."
Homosexual executive at E.W. Scripps shot it down. That's how gays like to work politically. Behind the scenes, nastily, snarking at all the stupid breeders as they stick the knife in them.
A hundred years from now, the BSA will still be around, and the guys at E. W. Scripps who weaseled them will be crackling in hell.
It's gay vindictiveness, one of the most potent varieties.
The BSA actually stood up to them and won, all the way up to the Supreme Court -- now they'll pay.
This tells you something more important about the gay "movement" than anything that was written in the court briefs and opinions.
I watched about 10 mins of that and when it was clear that it was nothing but a puff-piece with no regard for the fact that those folks live under a dictatorship, it was time to change the channel.
Check my post here
In the link to their sponsors, on that page there is also a link to all the Scripps shows and family (perverted post-nuclear as it is).
Time to saddle up and ride on this one FReepers....if you live your life in a public arena, then by G_D the PUBLIC has a Right to Know just where you stand...and then WE can decide that THEY do not meet OUR standards!
Oh, and I guess that using our PUBLIC AIRWAVES to PROMOTE a Gay Lifestyle (Soup to Nuts with Steve and Dan....the GAY COOKS!) and having Flay and Battalli insulting Bush supporters in their restaraunts wasn't a "bad reflection" on Food Network, huh?
"BZZZT! WRONG, Try again Dumba$$!"
ping.
Not at all. But I think the introduction of the argument about family and religious values was deemed necessary by the BSA's attorneys, because of the nature of the attack mounted against BSA by Lambda Legal Defense, the gay lawyering group, in the James Dale case. James Dale was carefully forum-shopped (all these "anti-gay discrimination" cases are) to New Jersey, because New Jersey's state supreme court was known to be very liberal. The BSA basically argued that they were a private, church-affiliated organization (so many of their troops, as you know, are church-sponsored), so that they could validly claim First Amendment protection from Lambda's petition to the State of New Jersey to force "gay-friendly" values on BSA, with a claim that BSA "discriminated" against homosexuals on unsupportable grounds. Don't ask me to explain why protection of the boys from predatory pederasts can't be supported in the law.
All this Scouting backlash by the media is a bunch of nonsense.
No, it's part of the press campaign for homosexuals. They have been actively campaigning on behalf of "gay rights" for over 15 years. In 1994 or so, Jonathan Alter wrote an essay in his magazine -- I think he writes for Newsweek -- in which he listed all the press campaigns that were in progress at the time (antismoking, pro-abortion, etc., etc.), along the way to asking his media fellows to keep the list manageable, lest they lose their focus and their ability to influence the public. Alter's campaign list included the homosexuality campaign.
I should have clarified. We like to watch the original Iron Chef, not Iron Chef America.
Not sure if I have ever seen any of her shows. I did watch some woman's show and it seemed like she had been nipping at the booze during the show. I kept waiting for her to pass out! lol
I'm not sure either on why I dislike Emeril, but I dislike the 'BAM!' for one thing.
We watch a lot of the 'Unwrapped' shows, too and we like to watch 'Good Eats'. Alton Brown is a very informative host and can be downright funny sometimes!
Seriously, who else would sign-off on such a bizarre temper tantrum?
What I find amazing is how the left and their public relations department, the MSM, gleefully reported the Catholic Church's failure at rooting out homosexual pedofiles within the priesthood, but at the same time, they ream the BSA for taking measures to ensure that the problems the Catholic Church has never actually happen, or at least minimize the damage.
Mark
I watched that competition UP UNTIL they got rid of the two people I liked best. I didn't know who won (I SUSPECTED WHO WON) until your post. My suspicion was right. The competition was a farce to push more gays at us, which is why when the two I liked were eliminated, I stopped watching. I refused to give them any more ratings for their 'gayathon'.
I liked the brunette gal and after she was eliminated, I liked the guy that started out poorly but kept improving. He had an odd name IIRC.
Oh well. :(
As far as I'm concerned, the Boy Scouts are free to eclude gays and the Food Network is free to exclude Boy Scouts.
FoodTV isn't about controversy, religion or politics. They aren't a political organization, they are a business.
They have done nothing illegal or immoral. As much as I would like to see everyone support Boy Scouts and my political positions, I can see no reason to hold a grudge against FoodTV for their exclusion of Boy Scouts on their network.
When Actors, producers, directors, etc...are reprimanded for their "beliefs" they cry MCARTHYISM. Isn't this exactly the same thing? Why don't they understand that?
I can't stand Bobby Flay. A johnny-one-note of cooking.
"Tonight I'm making a Boston Cream Pie, first I'm starting with poblamo peppers.."
All he can cook is Southwestern, and arrogant to boot.
I liked Mario though..disappointed.
She's the skinny young woman with the bobblehead that does Italian recipes.
The Boy Scouts should start to sue for religious discrimination. We should support them.
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