Posted on 05/09/2014 7:39:54 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
Pascal Tessier is a 17-year-old Eagle Scout in suburban Maryland who says scouting made him who he is today, with its lessons about morality, leadership and responsibility. And those very strengths, this openly gay high school senior said, are what compel and equip him to fight back now against Scout policies on gays that he believes are wrong.
After long, anxious debate, the Boy Scouts’ national board voted a year ago to allow openly gay youths to participate in scouting, while continuing to exclude gay leaders age 18 and over. It was promoted as a compromise intended to offer the organization time to figure out how to proceed.
Instead, it has brought the Scouts only more ire from all directions and produced a house divided.
The awkwardness of the compromise — don’t-ask-don’t-tell silence on the one hand, and a supposedly welcoming embrace on the other, with an 18th birthday dividing the two — has emboldened gay scouts like Pascal to step forward with passionate editorials and online petitions.
Conservative critics have been no less vehement. Rob Schwarzwalder, a senior vice president at the Family Research Council, a Washington-based group, said: “Judeo-Christian sexual ethics are fixed. Dislike or reject them, if you wish, but they are not malleable. How can two boys both pledge to be ‘morally straight’ when they operate out of two different moral perspectives concerning human sexuality?”
The partial ban is also proving legally problematic with two distinct classes of members treated differently.
In California, for example, state judges could be barred from involvement with the Boy Scouts under a proposed change of the rules on judicial ethics, which bar participation in groups practicing “invidious discrimination” but currently exempts “nonprofit youth organizations,” like the Scouts.
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…true that….
There was no compromise, only a slow CAVE to morality.
Compromise always ticks everyone off.
As Gomer Pyle would say: “Surprise! Surprise!”
You can’t compromise with the left or with sodomites. You can only defeat them, and then it needs to be a Cartheginian Peace.
Some of us are old enough to remember when their cause of the day was something called "civil unions." Just give us those, and we'll be content . . .
Oh, wait, that wasn't long ago at all - Bill Clinton was president!
And speaking of civil unions, remember in 1996, when Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act? Many liberals voted for that law. It’s amazing now, to think that good liberals such as Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, Joe Lieberman, Pat Leahy, Tom Harkin, all voted for that law. So it wasn’t too many years ago that liberals were willing to say that they believe that marriage is a man and a woman.
Today, saying you believe marriage is a man and a woman gets you targeted for destruction by the left. Amazing how things have changed.
...we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender,...
Apparently his version of morality doesn't include staying out of butt holes.
We know this to be true, what you say about so-called “transgenders”, by the fact that some schools are requiring that the so-called “transgenders” be allowed to use the opposite sex’s restrooms and locker rooms. I’d like to see them forced to put their money where their mouths are by a “transgender” female calling herself a man, suing to be allowed onto a male football or basketball team. When it comes to the money, the hypocrites show their true (double) standards.
the Boy Scouts problem was their reliance on big-corporate money to fund nice offices and high salaries at their world HQ
They learned that whoever pays the bills eventually will call the tune.
I’m old enough to remember when the rallying cry was to merely “get government out of our bedrooms”. States began repealing anti-sodomy laws, and we were immediately on the slippery slope, that slippery slope which the left always mockingly claims is a conservative figment of the imagination.
Just like giving into baby murder, and now Belgium has legislated that children have the “right” to decide to die. The same children who would be deemed as being abused if they had to do chores or paid labor suitable to their age.
They won't be satisfied until parents can be jailed for merely objecting to these perverts having their way with their kids.
Deer hunters go where the deer are.
They knew even then what the end game was. Just as with academia, the media,organised “Christian” religion, and the formerly much-derided “establishment”, the left is inexorable in its long march through American and global institutions. They are in it for the long haul, and permanency.
The Bible, through John of Patmos, gave us the game plan centuries ago.
No one sacrifices children on the alter of leftist perversion without resistance and eventual destruction. All in good time, the scouts will eventually go "out of business" over such idiocy as catering to the mentally ill left.
Brings to mind the saying: Give a mouse a cookie and he'll want a glass of milk.
If he is choosing to lead a pervert life then the morality lessons were failed............
THIS is what the GOP-e wanted to elect for President.
Tell me again how Romney was that much different than Obama.
the left will not be happy until BSA is about nude gay sex camps
He’s also the ‘source’ of the joke...........
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