"Sad if some think gays SHOULD be discriminated against in the areas Romney emphasized."
There is no need for new laws to give people the rights they have had all along. Homosexuals are not discriminated against, and never have been. They enjoy all the freedoms every other American does. Homosexual rights laws are the giving of "special" rights, not afforded others, that is what is discrimination. Rights are not dispensed on the basis of who one has sex with. And they are "hate crimes laws" Also, Romney is against the Boy Scouts being able to restrict their membership of Scout masters who are homosexual.
Yeah thats just we need.
Gay men sharing pup tents with young boys.
Romney never said he was in favor of Gay Scoutmasters.
Sorry if you read into his 1994 senate race debate response that way. He was even asked to clarify his response (it was a bit ambiguous--speaking off the cuff like he did) and he would not go on the record as being in favor of Gay Scoutmasters.
He essential said that gays shouldn't be excluded for Boy Scouts en bloc (leaving room for them to serve on committees or for "sexually confused" boys to still be Boy Scouts.) It's a tough issue . . . but Romney said that most importantly, he thought that the BSA should be able to make its own decision on the matter (the conservative principle at the time which, fortunately, prevailed).
Sorry to rain on your "Romney wants gay Scoutmasters to sleep in tents with boys" parade (you don't even know the rules of camping for the BSA do you?--no leaders sleeping in tents with the boys.)
Nicely said... If this statement you mentioned is TRUE... It's curtains for Romney. This sort of reminds me of how the big guns in the Catholic Church reacted to the perverts abusing children, especially in Massachusetts... Always taking the side of the abusers and ignoring the MOST IMPORTANT THING: THE CHILDREN.
As far I am concerned I don't want a queer three blocks away from the Boys-Scouts. Rotten role model for a kid, just for starters...
This guy has already enough baggage, the wrong baggage to do him in.