I was a Boy Scout and made it to Eagle Scout before my troop was disbanded and moved to a location too far away for us to attend. It was an experience I will never forget.
The Boy Scouts of America are a faith-based institution that certainly doesn’t need the White House telling them how to operate. Both the Boy Scouts and the Cub Scouts helped in my formative years, and since 1910 have taught traditional family values.
I remember all to well my father and I building PineWood Derby cars. My Dad, a blue collar hardworking individual was most certainly the neighborhood handyman. But, he was not a PineWood craftsman and quite frankly, our cars didn’t look pretty. They did however make it down the track, and while the trophies were few, the wonderful experiences have never faded from my memory.
From Fox
In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that the Scouts can bar homosexuals from being troop leaders.
Because of the Boy Scouts’ exclusionary practices, some public schools across the country tried to limit or end their ties with the organization. But in 2001 the federal government ordered public schools to keep their doors open to the Scouts. And Congress, responding to the threat of campus lockouts, voted to cut federal funding to any school that banned the Scouts or any similar group from “open forum” access.
Taxpayers also fund Boy Scout activities with several millions of dollars through military personnel, federal land use and other assistance. Taxpayers doled out roughly $8 million for the 2005 Jamboree, held every four years.
Gay and atheist activists now hope Obama will signal his disapproval of the Boy Scouts practices or turn the federal faucet off.
The Scouts have been a part of America’s landscape for over 100 years. All the while, doing it without interference from the federal government. Howard Menzer, the president of “Scouting for All” “Gays want to be Boi Scouts Too”, sees it another way.
“No way should he [Obama] be involved with a discriminatory group. That would be the best thing that could happen if he said, ‘You discriminate too much for me. I can’t be your honorary president.’ I think that might begin to change a few things.”
Obama was meeting with a delegation of the Boy Scouts in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon, at which time he was to accept the group’s 2008 Report to the Nation.
A Boy Scouts spokesman said Obama has indicated he will accept the title of honorary president.
It should be noted that every president since William Howard Taft in 1910 has held the position of honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America.
What parent of sound mind would want a homosexual scout leader going on camping trips with their young heterosexual male child? Truth be told, none of them. If the gay segment of our society wants a Boi Scout organization, let them start their own. Holy fsck.
As the parent of a former scout, I would have gladly paid extra in the way of dues and fees to avoid federal funding if it meant having my child spend the night camping in the woods with a gay person. They have their lifestyle, heterosexual families have theirs. Why is it they feel the need to push their way into a lifestyle people obviously do not embrace?
I’m no homophobe, but personally, I consider the attempted imposition by the gay community towards the Boy Scouts of American quite unnerving.
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Being gay does NOT make you a pedophile. If a straight man can be trusted with a little girl, a gay man can be trusted with a little boy.
As a former Scout and Leader within the organization I can also attest the good experience I had as a Scout. I can further swear to direct knowledge that like DADT in the MILITARY Homosexuality in Scouting exists and is improper discrimination because it isnt just about Leadership positions it is also about youth and young adults whom are also struggling with coming to terms with their orientation/identity and being forced to be less then honest with whom they are or relying on the principles of faith/association for direction on the journey when said organizations fail to recognize such persons as less than human or immoral.
And as a supporter of linclusion for GLBT Parents (eg Parent Child activities and communication, Father and Son Campouts, Den Parents, Troop Committee Positions, etc.) and previous Gay Youth members, specifically Eagle Scouts at a minimum, into Leadership on the local level the reason why there is no Gay Scouting Troop/ Youth Organization isnt for a lack of trying.
Specifically related to the restrictive Congressional Charter to a Para Military Corporation back in the early 1900s, which restricts by Trademark: the use and function of the name, the activities described, and awards recieved, which are recognized by the Federal Government, Colleges, and Employers, as an honoured achievement. The issue remains an issue of Qualitative Earnings. There Is Nothing higher or lower than An Eagle Scout. Until another youth/young adult organization achieves the same clout, within its accredidation and recognition as a Government standard, then we have to fight for inclusion and equality within rather than starting a duplicate organization as by law we cant yet.
One must remember that before the BSA is social org for youth/young adults its primary goal was, is, and remains, Civil Defense and Citizenship, followed by Leadership training. Of which I am proud to say I recieved and wish that some day I could allow my sons to experience it too! It would make me a proud Pappa to see them achieve the rank of Eagle Scout, which I chose to forsake for freedom and equality, many years ago. I dont regret that decision. I chose to stand on the side of honour and left the BSA 2 years later.
the real reasson the scouting program dosn’t allow gay’s in is cuz when you join the Boy Scouts you take an oath of
“On my honnor, i will do my best to do my duty
to god and my country
to obay the scout law at all times
to keep my self phyiscly strong mentaly awake and MORALY STRIGHT”
if you take an oath of being moraly stright then by being gay you would be breaking that oath you just took.