Gay senator wants Boy Scouts kept out of executive mansion

Associated Press ^ | 2/11/06

[Non-Sequitur]

Now a RumpRanger wants Scouts Banned from the Governors Mansion --- sheesh!!!!!

Pataki has made it clear that that isn't about to happen while he's governor.

[napscoordinator]

Additionally, I believe it should only be up to the Governor. Why is a Senator getting involved. He should only be involved if a request came to his office asking to have a seminar in the Senator's home.

[gidget7]

Very interesting. He doesn't stand for much except discrimination of Christians and Heterosexual (normal) people.

[Burkean]

I wish the Boy Scouts would rewrite their guidelines to only accept leaders who are not involved in any sexual relationship outside of marriage, rather than just wording it to target homosexual relations. It would take the wind out of sails of the protesters and also point out the high standards of the organization.

[SandRat]

Well, take up the mantle again. If they send you to the sandbox and you're a registered adult you'll be able to help the WSO continue rebuilding Scouting in Iraq or Afghanistan. The job has gone so well in Afghanistan that it looks like they'll be able to send Afghan Scouts to the World Jamboree. In Iraq the numbers are up to 2K youth but they still need help and it's been the Coalition Military unit members that have been taking the place of our traditional District and Council adults to give training, planning and the rest or the Iraqi adults and youth but more Iraqi adults are beginning to take over with Coalition Military Scouters mentoring.

[presidio9]

Yeah, thank God we've got a Conservative stalwart like George Pataki. I can't wait until he, and Rudy and John McCain run for president. Maybe they can change the law and let Schwarzenegger run too. Either Chaffe or Snowe would make excellent VPs.

[aquila48]

I say - screw him!!

[SweetCaroline]

....my bet would be the wicked witch of the east would fully agree with him!

[texasbluebell]

Let's see. We have, what?, 5% of the US population that's gay, who we all have to kowtow to, apparently.

We have equally small percentages of moslem populations in various countries including the US telling us what to do.

What the heck ever happened to "majority rules"?

This is nonsense.

[Neenah]

I am glad I lived in a day in America where there wouldn't even BE a story like this ! The way it is going in this PC AMERICA...

HE WILL WIN ! This story makes me SICK !

[quietolong]

Barney Blasts Gay Marriage Foes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549566/posts

“Basically, they’re the disturbers of the civic peace,”

And yet people want to give more power to the goverment.

[presidio9]

[FlingWingFlyer]

Who would you prefer to visit your home? A troop of Boy Scouts or a homosexual "senator?" LOL! It's not rocket science to me.

[StACase]

I though this was appropriate:

U.S. Supreme Court

WEST VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION v. BARNETTE, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)

319 U.S. 624

WEST VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION et al.
v.
BARNETTE et al.
No. 591.

Argued March 11, 1943.
Decided June 14, 1943.



Mr. Justice JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

Excerpts:

Justice Robert Jackson--"The very purpose of the Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections."

"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein."

"Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent, soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard."

"Forcing unity is contrary to the meaning of the Constitution."

[xarmydog]

Wife and I were watching TV the other night.On comes a commercial for Brokeback Mountain.She says"that looks like a good movie".I said,do you know what it is about? she says no,so I tell her.I swear it took me 20 min.to convince her!I then told her I was going to see it.She almost went into shock!Then I explained that I was going to gorge myself all day on any and every kind of junk food I could consume.When I go,I am going to smuggle in a quart of buttermilk,[shiver],and consume it when I see two men kiss.Then,I will stand up and pull a Linda Blair all the while turning around 360 degrees.I will apologize and walk out![kidding of course].

[Liberty Valance]

On my honor I will do my best To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; To help other people at all times; To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.

Gee whiz, I don't see what the Senator has against the Scouts...

[G.Mason]

"New York State Senator Thomas K. Duane ... he became the Senate's first openly-gay and first openly HIV-positive member."

May he rest in grease.

[Dilbert56]

He just doesn't want them in the mansion because they discriminate, legally or otherwise.

Oh, well then he's an idiot. Every organization discriminates if they have rules regarding who may join. I can't join the Congressional Black Caucus because I'm neither Black nor in Congress. The question is whether an organization's discrimination is unfair. The Supreme Court has ruled it's not. The scandal in the Catholic Church has shown the policy to be prudent if not prescient.

[G.Mason]

That's it!

I'm going for the scotch & soda.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

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

Yes. But keep in mind that's exactly what one major American political party does all the time. They booed a bunch of Boy Scouts who stood on their convention stage in 2000.