Posted on 08/08/2012 11:58:58 AM PDT by Maelstorm
There is one social issue on which Mitt Romney is more liberal than President Obama — that of urging the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to accept gay scouts.
Mr. Romney said in 1994 that while it was up to BSA to set its own policy, he thought the scouts should allow gay boys in, and this week his campaign reaffirmed that stance to the Associated Press. The 1994 comments came as he was running to unseat then-Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in Massachusetts.
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Now Scouts for Equality, a group pushing for the national scouting group to allow gay boys to join, said it's time for Mr. Obama — who as president is the honorary president of the scouts — to take the same stand.
"I'm happy to hear that Mitt Romney's campaign confirmed his support for the participation of my family, and families like mine, in the Boy Scouts of America," said Jennifer Tyrrell, a former cub scout den leader who is lesbian, said in a statement. "I think President Obama should also let the public know what he thinks about a cultural institution like the Boy Scouts banning gay Americans."
Ms. Tyrell, who was dismissed as a den leader, is leading a petition drive to try to get BSA to change its policy to allow gay scouts and scout leaders. After a two-year review, BSA leaders announced last month that they would not change longstanding policies against openly gay scouts and adult scout leaders.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Maybe they start off ‘gay’, or ‘ambiguous’, but being in the Boy Scouts is supposed to turn a ‘child of undetermined goals, of confusing life choices, of limited learning and experience’ into a MAN.
I don’t know of any Boy Scouts I ever met who started off ‘perfect’. I do know that the longer they stayed in, the better they got.
I’m pretty sure that starting off in Boy Scouts as gay will either cure you , or you will quit. Maybe the Boy Scouts is the last best chance for helping children live a full and healthy life. Even if they start off ‘gay’.
I agree. He is wrong.
Another thought.
Maybe Lady Gaga, Roseanne Barr, the cast of The View, Elton John, etc. should start up (and fund) an organization called the Gay Scouts. Only gay children allowed.
Solves the problem,doesn’t it?
I wonder what the merit badges would be ?
Oh and you hate Mormons too you bigot.
And work for the DNC...
I think that's all of it...
You'd think even the slowest among them would have finally managed to learn by now, wouldn't you?
But they don't.
They really... truly... simply... don't.
;)
Well, he didn’t shoot his foot completely off, but he’s lost a couple of toes.
This was a dumb, Dumb, DUMB thing to do.
At a time when he seriously needs to get Tea Party support...
I guess we are suppose to forget that in the SLC Olympics Romney refused to allow the Boy Scouts to volunteer claiming it was because of their age. When it was pointed out that other youth groups of the same age were allowed he flipped and said they would be allowed to but they could not wear their uniforms. He was pandering to the gays, planning to run for office in Massachusetts.
With all this and Romneys refusal to back the Chick-fil-A CEO on his perfectly reasonable statement that favored traditional marriage I now want to see him replaced at the convention in Tampa. We can do better.
Boston Mass., is jammed with homos.
Of course Romney is a big supporter.
Never again do we vote for another leftist GOP insider.
Simple question: Do the boy scouts ban gay people from joining their ranks? I don’t think they do.
“This was a dumb, Dumb, DUMB thing to do.”
This is a BS article. They only quoted a lesbian with no association to the romney campaign.
The Washington Times is a conservative newspaper.
Here is Romney expressing the depth of his loyalty to the homosexual agenda.
“For some voters it might be enough for me to simply match my opponent’s record in this area. But I believe we can and must do better. If we are to achieve the goals we share, we must make equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern. My opponent cannot do this. I can and will.”
(snip)
“One issue I want to clarify concerns President Clinton’s “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue” military policy. I believe that the Clinton compromise was a step in the right direction. I am also convinced that it is the first of a number of steps that will ultimately lead to gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honestly in our nation’s military. That goal will only be reached when preventing discrimination against gays and lesbians is a mainstream concern, which is a goal we share.”
So, if Mitt flip-flops on his support of gays in the Boy Scouts tomorrow, you'll take him at his word?
That sounds an awful lot like, "lie to me, baby", to me.
People really need to stop deluding themselves about who and what Mitt Romney is. He's not a conservative. He's not a moderate. He's a liberal who's a registered Republican.
Of course he’s not ignorant. He gave $10,000 while gov to a radical “gay” activist group that distributed something called the Black Book to adolescent kids in public schools, describing disgusting faggot “sex acts”, contact numbers and the like.
Romney knows exactly what fags are like, and he’s fine with it.
That's as shameful a comment as any Obama apologist has ever made. You've got Mitt Romney's own words right in front of you, and you blame the media for ratting him out.
Are you not aware that Mitt Romney MANDATED gay 'marriage' while he was Governor of Massachusetts?
For crying out loud - he out gayed the radical libs, and even on the eve of his officially being nominated as the Republican challenger, his campaign AFFIRMS his support for gays in the BSofA!
Do you have a link for those quotes? I’d like to pass them around.
Mitt has never broken bread with the Tea Party since its inception. Not once. He studiously avoided ANY and all connections to the most important cultural movement of the last half century, and now, when it counts most, he has the temerity to expect us to vote for him.
As if being the grandfather of Obamacare, and his documented record of liberal governance weren't enough, he failed to capture the winds of Hurricane Chick-fil-A in his sails, then allows his campaign to re-affirm his support for gays in the Boy Scouts of America.
What else does this liberal poser have to do, to convince conservatives that he isn't worthy of our support?
“””””Maybe they start off ‘gay’, or ‘ambiguous’, but being in the Boy Scouts is supposed to turn a ‘child of undetermined goals, of confusing life choices, of limited learning and experience’ into a MAN.
I don’t know of any Boy Scouts I ever met who started off ‘perfect’. I do know that the longer they stayed in, the better they got.
I’m pretty sure that starting off in Boy Scouts as gay will either cure you , or you will quit. Maybe the Boy Scouts is the last best chance for helping children live a full and healthy life. Even if they start off ‘gay’.”””””
The only problem with your opinion is this... The choice to be gay is just that, a conscious freewill choice to do wrong - There is absolutely nothing unintentional about this sickening and disgusting behavioral choice. It is a highly aggressive and despicable movement, an abomination to us all. Presently, there is no way to contain or eradicate this vileness, but we can still protect ourselves from it and we have a right to do so.
A young man or boy who is “taught” to be gay does not need the BSA, he needs a good counselor or psychologist first... One does not deliberately introduce a sickness into a healthy environment; at least not until the “sickness” has been completely cured.
Pandora’s box cannot be opened. There is no place for “gays” in the Boy Scouts of America period. Not today, not tomorrow, not EVER.
Scout Ping
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