Gay senator wants Boy Scouts kept out of executive mansion

Associated Press ^ | 2/11/06

[presidio9]

A state senator wants the Boy Scouts kept out of the governor's mansion because of what he calls the anti-gay positions of the national scouting organization.

State Senator Thomas Duane of Manhattan was invited by the Twin Rivers Council of the Boy Scouts to join them at the Albany mansion. The group is planning a reception Thursday on character-building programs.

In a letter to Governor Pataki this week, Duane, who is openly gay, says the governor is sending a bad message by allowing "a discriminatory organization" to use state facilities.

Pataki spokesman Kevin Quinn tells the Albany Times Union the governor won't ban the Boy Scouts, calling them "an American institution."

Twin Rivers leader Jerry Vorse estimates 150 Scouts and officials will attend, and he says Duane is wrong _ even though the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the group can refuse to register avowed homosexuals.

Vorse Says there's nothing on the scouting applications that asks about sexual orientation and the issue doesn't come up.

[Gay State Conservative]

I think that this state Senator would welcome any Boy Scout Troop to his favorite bath house.Goodness knows there are probably enough of them in the East Village.

[operation clinton cleanup]

State Senator Thomas Duane of Manhattan was invited by the Twin Rivers Council of the Boy Scouts to join them at the Albany mansion.

They invited him, so that makes them anti-gay? Perhaps he is the one being intolerant... maybe if they would have invited the Rump Rangers, it would have been fair and balanced.

[Loud Mime]

"Sheesh. You cant get any lower than attacking the Boy scouts."

Please don't lay down a challenge for these creeps. They probably can find a way to get lower than attacking the boy scouts.

Registered Sex Offenders doing community service working for the girl scouts? Brownies?

[presidio9]

If he lives long enough (and he will because we spend more money on AIDS research than we do on children's diseases), Duane aspires to become NY's Barney Frank.

[burzum]

This is only the start. Next he will be trying to ban any service-member from going to the governor's mansion (in a way similar to the SF school ban).

[Mulch]

Your exactly right. Homosexuals and Islamofacists do have a similar agenda and, as you say, its to replace traditional American values with their own contemptible rational.

[MarMema]

the never ending fight against the darkness ping....

[river rat]

What do you expect from fudge packing perverts...

Offer an inch of respectability, and they want to take the whole salami....

Semper Fi

[Dilbert56]

Their right to exclude openly gay men as scout masters was upheld by the US Supreme Court. What part of that can't this twit understand? SCOTUS says it's fully justified but this politician thinks he's above the law. He will force his unconstitutional views on them.

Hey senator, did you see what's happened in the Catholic Church? The BSA is more justified than ever in having this policy.

[Dustbunny]

And now, because of this request I am going to become an active 'Homophobe'.

[Dionysius]

...sent to his home in Greenwich Village.

[Major_Risktaker]

Birds of the feather, flock togther...

Mentally ill Senator Duane joined City Council Speaker Quinn, Assemblymember Gottfried and Senator Clinton in
addressing problems plaguing New York...

[redpoll]

My first question to any gay activist trying to delegitimize the Boy Scouts: "What organization are you going to create or support that provides the ethical and moral framework that a boy needs to become a man?"

What a shame I'm no longer working as a reporter. I'd love to see the look on the face of the activist after that question. Of course, the fact that I'd consider the question is one of the several reasons I'm no longer a reporter.

I was also a Boy Scout for most of my boyhood. The wilderness hijinks of myself and my chums always had a vague air of sexual questioning and exploration, as it always does in pre- and early adolesence. Adding a young male homosexual Scout leader to the mix would, naturally, push some of that interest in a homosexual direction - in the same way that putting myself as a 19-year-old Girl Scout leader would be with a bunch of freshmen girls in the woods would lead, naturally, to sexual experimentation and exploration. The Boy Scouts are absolutely correct to prevent these sorts of things from happening in their organization - in the same way that the Girl Scouts wouldn't let me as a heterosexual young man hang out with girls a few years younger than me. (As a creaky old guy now, this wouldn't be a concern... but I do recall my late teens with an awestruck embarressment.)

In fact, an experiment has already taken place in regards to allowing open homosexuals within an organization in which young men and boys mix. The organization is the Catholic Church, where seminaries have been gay-friendly for decades. The results are in.

[presidio9]

Please don't lay down a challenge for these creeps. They probably can find a way to get lower than attacking the boy scouts.

Well, so far they have pretty much left the Cub Scouts alone.

[ex-Texan]

This guy is a total 'putz.' He ought to be arrested, prosecuted and impeached because of his secret NAMBLA agenda. His attack on the Boy Scouts is based on the group's recommended reading list on their web site.

[quietolong]

One part of the problem

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[FOG724]

A state senator wants the Boy Scouts kept out of the governor's mansion because of what he calls the anti-gay positions of the national scouting organization.

Way to lead by example. Show how inclusive you are. Sheesh.

[BigCinBigD]

Sheesh. You cant get any lower than attacking the Boy scouts.

Attacking them from the rear?

[Emmet Fitzhume]

This Eagle Scout agrees with you.