Blacklisting the Boy Scouts

Pacific Legal Foundation ^ | March 2003 | Mark Pulliam

[gcruse]

Blacklisting an organization means setting it up for being boycotted. Blacklisting an individual sets them up to not be hired. Is the bar association calling for a BSA boycott?

[Roscoe]

False.

Main Entry: 1black·list
Pronunciation: -"list
Function: noun
Date: circa 1619
: a list of persons who are disapproved of or are to be punished or boycotted

[gcruse]

And the BSA are being punished...just how?

[Roscoe]

Merriam-Webster's definition as opposed to your false and unsourced "definition": a list of persons who are disapproved of or are to be punished or boycotted

And the BSA are being punished...just how?

You didn't read the article?

"In California, several local bar associations are seeking to ostracize the Boy Scouts by prohibiting state court judges from participating in the organization..."

[Always Right]

It is a boycott to anyone except for someone who is hellbent on defending gays no matter what.

[gcruse]

It is a boycott to anyone except for someone who is hellbent on defending gays no matter what.

Actually, I 'm more concerned about the atheist kids who can't be boy scouts because they haven't subscribed the reigning superstition.

[Always Right]

Actually, I 'm more concerned about the atheist kids who can't be boy scouts because they haven't subscribed the reigning superstition.

I want to know why such a superior intellectual being would even want to associate with such idiots as the Bible-thumping scouts then. Really, it sounds like such a kid would be so much better off then having to learn a bunch of religious-based ethics.

[RonF]

I want to know why such a superior intellectual being would even want to associate with such idiots as the Bible-thumping scouts then.

There's no requirement in the BSA to be a Christian, or have read, discussed, or even touched a Bible.

[Tax Government]

All I can say is, "If you are a parent who has somehow not involved your young kids in with BSA, this is a great time to get with the program."

[Tax Government]

If there isn't a merit badge for defending freedom, the BSA ought to create one. Freedom to associate, freedom to assemble... And, of course, a series of merit badges in pre-law...

[Cold Heat]

prohibiting state court judges from participating in the organization... ....is not blacklisting.

I would pose that question to the judges who are currently involved in the BSA in some capacity and see what they consider it to be.

I do not know what else you could call it.

It puts the BSA in the same bucket as a communist organization.

[Tax Government]

The latest attack on the Boy Scouts comes from the bar associations for San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Santa Clara counties, which have petitioned the California Supreme Court to revise the ethical rules governing California’s 1,600 state court judges to prohibit them from belonging to the Boy Scouts.

This is an election-year grand-stand stunt with zero chance of succeeding. It's just another attempt to divide and conquer, and divert people from focusing on voting out the democRats. Ignore it. (But join the BSA and get a bumper sticker post-haste.)

[BaBaStooey]

As an Eagle Scout, I would remind the author of this article that the only "former" Eagle Scout is a dead one.

Once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout. You are an Eagle Scout for life. Kind of like the Marines....or something.