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Activist Groups Urge Obama to Reject Boy Scout Honor
FoxNews.com ^ | Tuesday, March 03, 2009 | Stephen Clark

Posted on 03/03/2009 2:59:58 PM PST by Joiseydude

President Obama says he wants to be president of all the people. But some groups are urging him to make an exception for the Boy Scouts of America.

Critics of the Scouts who are outraged that the group is allowed to exclude gays and atheists while receiving federal funding are urging Obama to reject the group's honorary presidency, a designation bestowed on every U.S. president since William Howard Taft in 1910.

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KEYWORDS: 0bama; bho2009; bho44; boyscouts; bsa; democrats; homosexualagenda; liberals; moralabsolutes; scouting; scouts
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1 posted on 03/03/2009 2:59:58 PM PST by Joiseydude
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To: Joiseydude

They shouldn’t offer it to him. He doesn’t deserve the honorary presidency, let alone the real presidency.


2 posted on 03/03/2009 3:01:35 PM PST by scfischer7
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To: SandRat; Joiseydude

BTTT


3 posted on 03/03/2009 3:01:45 PM PST by SmithL (The Golden State demands all of your gold)
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To: Joiseydude

Go ahead refuse it Obama. A giant window into the bottomless pit where your soul should be.


4 posted on 03/03/2009 3:01:49 PM PST by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
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To: Joiseydude

I would prefer that they defer the honor to later. Or to someone else.


5 posted on 03/03/2009 3:02:12 PM PST by texmexis best (uency)
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To: Joiseydude

The Boy Scouts would get my support if they refused the honor.


6 posted on 03/03/2009 3:02:16 PM PST by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Joiseydude

In honor of his economic policies, they should confer the title “ Big Chief-Hole-in-the-Pocket” to him


7 posted on 03/03/2009 3:03:53 PM PST by Mac from Cleveland (Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again---and J. Edgar, too)
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To: Joiseydude

This is probably fine with the scouts.

The Obamaloon has not the normals, the fortitude, or the intelligence to ever attain a reasonable scout rank.

But, he does have a Harvard Law degree. (Go figure out how.)


8 posted on 03/03/2009 3:08:00 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Joiseydude

The pole smokers should form their own boy scout troops.

They should be called . . . ?


9 posted on 03/03/2009 3:10:50 PM PST by Jacquerie (More Central Planning is not the solution to the failure of Central Planning.)
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To: Joiseydude
"a designation bestowed on every U.S. president since..."

*Just have to take care of a little paper work first. Sign a few documents to release the honorary and BTW, bring along your BC.

10 posted on 03/03/2009 3:11:01 PM PST by Deaf Smith
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To: Joiseydude

Nuts. Nuts to the Boys Scouts for offering it to Obama. Nuts to the Obama cult for thinking the Obama should not take it. Nuts! Just plain nuts no matter which way you look.


11 posted on 03/03/2009 3:11:11 PM PST by Jeff Gordon ("An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last." Churchill)
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To: Joiseydude

Obama’s homosexual “sensitivity” will keep him from supporting the Boy Scouts...


12 posted on 03/03/2009 3:12:39 PM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Jacquerie
The pole smokers should form their own boy scout troops. They should be called . . . ?

"The Progressive Rump Rangers of Amerika."

13 posted on 03/03/2009 3:12:59 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Da Coyote

” has not the normals”??????


14 posted on 03/03/2009 3:13:02 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Islander7

They made slick willy honorary president of the BSA during his term. I sent my eagle award, plaque, merit badge sash and the flag I carried as a crew leader at Philmont in 1974 back to the national office. I got a nice letter from the CEO of SW Bell (CEO of the BSA)returning my stuff. I sent it back and said no thanks.......The BSA is not what it used to be.F’em....red


15 posted on 03/03/2009 3:13:46 PM PST by rednek ("Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.")
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To: Da Coyote

Have you seen the kind of stuff Harvard Law offers up nowadays?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195224/posts

That’s exactly how.


16 posted on 03/03/2009 3:18:33 PM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; justiceseeker93; ..
...the group is allowed to exclude gays and atheists while receiving federal funding...
...not to mention the gay atheists, who are all *dressed* up with no place to go.
17 posted on 03/03/2009 3:20:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Joiseydude

My Eagle Scout Board of Review was supposed to be held on 9/11/01, but was postponed.

Prior to that, I was a Life Scout for 4 1/2 years before attaining the rank of Eagle. My dad was (and still is) the one who would request congratulatory letters from presidents, and he likes to joke that I waited to become Eagle after Clinton was out of office.

Anyway, as I mentioned, my dad is the one who requests the letters, and it’s such a stark contrast among the presidents.

The Bushes ALWAYS send a letter. So did Ford, and his was always the best (he was an Eagle).

Clinton sent letters while he was in office, but after Jan 20, 2001, they stopped coming. My dad is polite and always asks “do you want me to request one from Bill Clinton? He hasnt responded in years, but I’ll request if you like.” That answer is usually a “no.”

And Carter? Never even a reply. I expect the same from Obama. Actually, I expect nobody will even request one from Obie.


18 posted on 03/03/2009 3:21:37 PM PST by Zeppelin
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To: Joiseydude

Sounds like they’re ready to “out” him should he not do as they direct.


19 posted on 03/03/2009 3:30:50 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Joiseydude
Nixon's signature appears on my Eagle Scout card. I would cringe to see Obama's.
20 posted on 03/03/2009 3:32:17 PM PST by Myrddin
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