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NY Boy Scouts hires gay adult — defying national leadership
ny daily news ^ | 4-2-2015 | BARRY PADDOCK, CORKY SIEMASZKO

Posted on 04/02/2015 1:10:40 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

The New York chapter of the Boy Scouts of America has made history by hiring an openly gay adult — and telling bigotry to take a hike.

They have hired a gutsy 18-year-old Eagle Scout named Pascal Tessier to work as a camp counselor this summer at the Ten Mile River Scout Camp in upstate New York.

And nobody is prouder than his mom.

“I am,” said Tracie Felker, who lives in Hagerstown, Md., when asked about her boundary-breaking boy.

“It’s not a brave thing he is doing,” she added. “It’s something necessary, something that needs to be done.”

Legal eagle David Boies, best known for leading the fight against California’s anti-gay marriage law, said Tessier “embodies the best qualities of an Eagle Scout, and of America.”

“Permitting him to continue his service to scouts and to scouting is the right decision for the Boy Scouts, and for our community,” he said. 

“In the past, barring boys and adults from being scouts and scout leaders solely based on their sexual orientation hurt them, hurt scouting, and hurt our communities. Ending that discrimination is an important step in putting an ugly chapter of American history behind us.”

Zach Wahls of Scouts for Equality called the hiring of Tessier a "watershed moment."

"For the first time in the history of the Boy Scouts, an openly gay adult will join their ranks as a camp counselor," he said. “Pascal Tessier was the first out gay scout, and now it appears that he will also be the first out gay leader.”

But in hiring Tessier, the New York scouts may have set up a potential showdown with the Texas-based national leadership of the one of the country's largest, most venerable youth organizations.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
But first of all, the police will do nothing, not wanting to make waves, until it leaks out that they are “protecting pedophiles”

That sounds like what is going on in the UK

61 posted on 04/02/2015 4:07:46 PM PDT by GeronL (CLEALY CRUZ 2016)
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To: GeronL

And there’s a reason for that.

As they discovered to their horror in Belgium, pedophiles go to lengths to get into positions of government power and authority, both to protect themselves and their peers.

The public discovered that the police, the courts, and both political parties were rife with pedophiles.


62 posted on 04/03/2015 6:12:18 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: manc
 
 
There is a war going on and it is high time our side understood it
 
+1 on that.
 
Besides the widespread Normalcy Bias - which is slowly cracking, though not fast enough - the bottom line is most people just don't know how to recognize much less comprehend how to deal with this increasingly sophisticated and proactive level of reckless hate and lawlessness. It's mostly beyond their understanding, it's simply hasn't been a part of their life experience and therefore do not have the skillsets to handle it.
 
 
There's a couple of quotes - one of many - from an article posted today that is illustrative, found here - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3275465/posts - it's worth a read.
 
"We are reaching the point where the left is running out of Republican “organizations” to fight. There is no conservative organization on a large scale. Only a hollow business party, its crony capitalist attachments and its stunted media. The left will have to fight people if it wants to completely win.It will have to stamp out all opposition to secure its totalitarian rule. That is what it’s doing now."
&
"The left has outmaneuvered GOP commanders. They still have plenty of troops, but no initiative. Their command lacks flexibility. They don’t know how to use their forces and they’re still playing by outdated rules of chivalry that the other side does not follow. They’re a 19th century European cavalry formation and the left is the Viet Cong. They have long ceased to be a threat to the left."
 
 

63 posted on 04/03/2015 11:42:20 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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