Posted on 02/03/2013 5:57:37 PM PST by Libloather
President Obama called Sunday for the Boy Scouts of America to open its ranks to those who are gay.
Asked in a pre-Super Bowl interview if he thought the group should end its ban on gay scout leaders and members, Obama responded with a direct: “Yes.”
“My attitude is that gays and lesbians should have access and opportunity the same way everybody else does, in every institution and walk of life,” Obama said.
Obama’s comments come as Boy Scouts leaders say they will discuss whether to change their long-standing ban during an upcoming meeting.
Obama made equal rights for gays and lesbians a central part of his second inaugural address last month, becoming the first president ever to discuss gay rights in an inaugural speech.
“Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law — for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well,” Obama said during his remarks after taking the ceremonial oath of office.
During his first term, Obama also became the first sitting president to back same-sex marriage and formally ended the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
The Boy Scouts decision to revisit the ban has attracted criticism from one prominent GOP leader, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, himself an Eagle Scout.
Perry on Saturday spoke out against lifting the ban. “I think most people see absolutely no reason to change the position and neither do I,” he said, according to a report in the Dallas Morning News.
Wouldn’t even start negotiations with this pervert ~ and say, when is he going to stretch a Gun Free Zone around the White House? What’s his delay
The Collected Wisdom of Banacek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykuGCT2uixk
Zer0, shut your f’in piehole and deal with Jobs, Iran, Syria, Isreal, and all your cabinet RATs who are jumping ship!
I was mainly insinuating that Ubama is a Moslem.
You don't seem to disagree.
Unfortunately his republican opponent had supported homosexualizing the Boy Scouts and military for the last 20 years.
The Boy Scouts had enemies at the top of both tickets.
> He wants to join?
As a Scoutmaster
Even in today’s liberalized, hyper-PC world, do most boys really want that now?
Is there anything left in America that this MAGGOT hasn’t soiled?
Your rage against the virtual mandatory homosexualization of every institution in the country is exactly what Adolf Axelrod wants. Soros told him how to destabilize the right, and Axelrod gives his “boy” his talking points. We’re being played like fiddles.
Rage they will get from me. Acceptance, never.
No one is suggesting acceptance of these policies is the answer since they are clearly absurd over-compensations for an imaginary problem. However exposing their game plan allows us to operate at a higher level. Otherwise we fall right into their trap.
Not likely at all, what the American people first endured, they then tolerated, and now embrace!!
He isn't called the Destroyer for nothing.
It wasn't all that long ago that anyone - *anyone* - who would call for such an overt abomination would be shunned and booted from decent society faster than you could swat a fly. Now the POTUS brazenly says these things while the filthy fly just sits there.
Rev 13
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
Now is the time to let your voices be heard, and here is the place to do it:
It is the site to BSA National. Let them know!
You’re right, I don’t disagree.
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