[af_vet_1981]

(Just for your info, I'm straight)

Yeah, right. Straight but not narrow.

I was asked to be here tonight in part as a signal of the Boston Minuteman Council's cold war with the national Boy Scouts of America headquartered in Irving, Texas. I say cold war because there is no shooting, no shouting, just a tough disagreement separating the national organization, which demands a cruel discrimination doing nothing but enshrining a bigotry, and the Minuteman Council, which last year, in its policy of nondiscrimination, signed by Brock Bigsby, declared as unacceptable "bias, intolerance, and unlawful discrimination" in serving thousands of youths "without regard to color, race, religion, ethnic background, sexual orientation, or economic status." In joining councils in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Minneapolis - my natal city - the Council in Boston, my adopted city for 40 years, said forcefully that it will not judge the worthiness of a boy to share in the remarkable experience of scouting on the basis of what his sexual orientation is or may be, nor the competence of an older boy or man to be a leader, on the same irrelevant criterion.

[jhw61]

Your an asshole. This whole thread has been about you. My brother died of AIDS ten years ago. I loved him. I miss him. That is all the posters have been trying to say. We loved you David. We will miss you. Merry Christmas to you. I hope you don't have children. Because you could always have the possibility of having you child reveal to you someday that they are gay. I suggest you watch Passion of the Christ. Better yet, just be decent.