[Sacajaweau]

Call it anything you want....the kid is solicitating for homos.

[Paladin2]

A Boy Scout is Clean and Articulate.

[txrefugee]

Why don’t homosexuals establish their own organizations instead of trying to soil traditional ones? They are trying to force their perversion on normal people at every opportunity.

[American in Israel]

Note he is not petitioning to get his award, but to open the door for homosexuality in the boy scouts. Evil to the core...

[Varda]

“Gay” teens are the victims of child abuse. They turn around and become abusers themselves. That’s why I think homosexuality is a form of Stockholm Syndrome.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Ironically enough (or perversely enough), this is happening at the same time as BSA is being dumped on for the “perversion files”.

The homosexuals argue that not all homosexuals are pedophiles. That’s true — but, it’s also true that all male on male pedophiles are homosexual men.

[wvnavyvet]

I commend this kid for the effort he made towards attaining Eagle Scout; it's a shame he forgot the ideals that go with Scouting. It was obviously far more important for him to make a social political/political correctness statement than to adhere to the principals that have guided the BSA for many decades. The BSA was forced to release names of adults (makes me sick to call them leaders) that prescribe to the life style this young man chose to follow. I don't understand why people of his persuasions do not start their own organization and enjoy life as they choose. I wish him a happy life but hope the BSA rejects his petition.

[GeronL]

There is no good reason for the BSA to change their policy

[Hot Tabasco]

I wonder who his mentor was, you know, the guy that convinced the kid he was a homosexual..........

[soycd]

Too bad. Either you and your mom want to brag about how you like to play in poop with your sick perversions or you can work toward a noble goal.

You can have your crap and eat it too, but not as a Scout.

[Biff55]

What part of "and keep myself...MORALLY STRAIGHT" don't they understand??? If they don't like it, then they can create their own gay organization that caters to them. I've had it with them shoving their agenda and "values" down my throat.

[Biff55]

And yes, I earned my Eagle rank back in 1976.

[yoe]

Oh for Heaven’s sake....here we go again with one more Communist step.....get rid of morals along with religion. Lets have names of his supporters....Leave this BSA troop alone.....form your own group and do as you wish...adequate has nothing to do with it.

[Tanniker Smith]

At least, he’s petitioning instead of denouncing or suing.

[SandRat]

It ain’t gonna happen kid.

[Sarajevo]

When I was a Boy Scout, we never had these issues. No one cared, but then again, no one would come out and say they were a flamer either.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Gay teen denied Eagle Scout submits petition asking Boy Scouts to change policy

Look weenie-boy;

Unless you've been on another planet for the last week, you should damn-well know, from the news, that we've had more than enough experience with you disease-ridden, boy-raping whackjobs.

We're all set here, take your crazy talk somewhere else.

[struggle]

Just ask the kid “How do we know you’re gay?”

[Venturer]

Ryan Andresen of Moraga marched into the front office of the Mt. Diablo Silverado Council on Ellinwood Way along with his parents and a former member of the same Boy Scout troop who came out as gay two weeks ago.
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Kinda makes me wonder if Ryan helped this other kid come out. That’s why Scouts do not need young perverts in their ranks..

[GCC Catholic]

From the article, Ryan says: By asking me to lie about who I am, the Scouts are going against their own values of being trustworthy.

Here is the center of his flawed logic. Nobody is asking him to lie about who he is - he can be a person who suffers from same-sex attraction, and it may in fact be something with a physiological root. However, having same-sex attraction does not imply that one must identify as "homosexual" or embrace the "gay" lifestyle. That is the part that goes against the ideals of Scouting.

The best witness that he can give to the ideals of Scouting is the same as I would say that a Christian with SSA can give: embrace a celibate lifestyle instead of the gay lifestyle. There are groups like Courage to help support people as they struggle to build the habits to live chastely.