President Obama, Mitt Romney Agree: Gay Boy Scouts OK

ABCNews.com ^ | Aug 8, 2012 8:39pm | Devin Dwye

[SoConPubbie]

President Obama and Mitt Romney have found some new common ground -surprisingly – on an issue of gay rights.

Obama today joined Romney in publicly disagreeing with a controversial ban on gay members of the Boy Scouts of America, one of the nation’s largest and most well-known youth development groups.

“The president believes the Boy Scouts is a valuable organization that has helped educate and build character in American boys for more than a century. He also opposes discrimination in all forms, and as such opposes this policy that discriminates on basis of sexual orientation,” said White House spokesman Shin Inouye in a statement to the Washington Blade, a LGBT newspaper.

It’s the first time Obama, who was named honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America in 2009, has publicly taken a position on the issue.

Romney first voiced support for gay scouts back in 1994 — a position that his campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said remains his position today.

“I feel that all people should be allowed to participate in the Boy Scouts, regardless of their sexual orientation,” Romney said in the video from 1994 recently re-surfaced by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. He added at the time that he supports “the right of the Boy Scouts of America to decide what it wants to do on that issue.”

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Last month, the group affirmed its ban on openly gay scouts and leaders after a two-year review of the policy, prompting the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to call on Obama to “reconsider” his honorary post.

[SoConPubbie]

And the Un-Masking of Mitt Romney, the lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal, continues . . . "If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

Romney Gay Boy Scouts Ping!

[UCANSEE2]

Isn't focusing on the 'boys' as the problem, just a way of IGNORING that the issue was about 'gay' MEN joining the Boy Scouts as 'leaders'.

One cannot LEAD what one does not PRACTICE.

[P-Marlowe]

Both of these @$$#0LE’s are queer as a three dollar bill. There is no other explanation.

Does anyone have a picture of Romney throwing like a girl or hanging curtains?

I’m just waiting for either judgment from God on America or an apology from God for destroying Sodom and Gomorrah.

I can’t believe the GOP nominated this faggot.

[cripplecreek]

That's thso thsweet of him.

[Gay State Conservative]

I'M STILL VOTING FOR ROMNEY

I've never voted for a candidate that failed to garner an Electoral vote...and I ain't gonna start now.

[ejonesie22]

I for one agree with both of them. I think a Gay boy scout group that is totally separate from Real Boy Scouts is ok. They can have their own organization and merit badges like interior design, hair styling, choreography and the like.

[Persevero]

There seems to be a confusion on the issue here.

Homosexual boys, if they so state they are, are not forbidden from being Scouts.

What is forbidden is adult homosexual men in positions of leadership.

We don’t want chickenhawks taking our boys on camping trips.

[NTHockey]

Here we go again. A Republicrat nominee who agrees more with the Democan nominee than he disagrees. Bush 41, Dole, Bush 43, McCain and now Romney as “standard bearers” who DO NOT represent Conservatives. Much worse, they want our vote, only so they can betray us.

We bemoan the fact that blacks, hispanics and Jews continually vote Democrat. Yet, are Conservatives any different by constantly voting Republican?

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.” Albert Einstein

[Norm Lenhart]

Your vote and big red lettering also informs us you support gays in the Boy Scouts and ALL that such implies.

Be PROUD!

[jongaltsr]

Speaking from personal experience.....

I have had a fair number of gay friends. I respected them and their respected me but they new two things. I liked girls and if “they” ever tried to get to familiar with me they would end up with a busted lip.

I never had to take such action.

ON THE OTHER HAND. I do not support Gay Preferences or Gay Marriage.

I can (probably) say that 90+ per cent of my fellow Americans feel the same way as I do, and I am proud of that fact.

[Kenny Bunk]

I wonder what Joseph Smith and Brigham Young would say about queer Scoutmasters.

The Mild-Mannered Mormon Milquetoast could have just picked up a million votes by saying nothing. This way, the queers still won't vote for him, and a million confused Christians who might not be too bright, will stay on the couch in the trailer instead of coming out to vote.

If I were really convinced you wanted queer scoutmasters Mitt, I wouldn't vote for you either. Ryan, what do YOU think of queer scoutmasters?

Obama voters, if you are confused about queer scoutmasters, check with your local black pastor.

BTW, why don't all the queer wannabe scoutmasters start up the Queer Scouts of America and leave the Boy Scouts alone?

[gleeaikin]

I just don’t know what to say, so I will leave it to Mark Twain

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it. — Mark Twain

[Gay State Conservative]

You're sure of that,are you?

[gleeaikin]

Well, if Conservatives are not happy, the can vote for Libertarians who want to conserve freedom, Green Party who want to conserve the environment, or any of several other parties such as those with ex-Republicans Goode and Rohmer.

[TigersEye]

Thwell! Mitt and Mutt can rub their thticks together and thtart a fire.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

I stand with the scouts. They see what a Jerry Sandusky can do and yet they are willing to have it happen all over again? No to Obama and No to Romney as far as this is concerned. You are both wrong!

[Salvation]

**President Obama, Mitt Romney Agree: Gay Boy Scouts OK**

NOT!!

[Norm Lenhart]

Absolutely. Faced with the fact that your candidate OK with giving homo/pedos access to children, you type in large red letters that you will vote to empower his views, you damn right I’m sure.

I’m also sure that giving homo/pedos legislated access to young meat (AKA your children) is by no means a conservative or christian value.

[1010RD]

Dear Conservative,

Please stay home or don’t vote for Romney.

Thanks,

Barak