Posted on 03/04/2009 10:42:29 PM PST by Chet 99
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.
"I'm hoping and praying he turns down the honorary presidency," said Howard Menzer, president of Scouting for All, which advocates for inclusion of gays into the Boy Scouts.
"No way should he be involved with a discriminatory group. That would be the best thing that could happen if he said, 'You discriminate too much for me. I can't be your honorary president.' I think that might begin to change a few things."
Obama was meeting with a delegation of the Boy Scouts in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon, at which time he was to accept the group's 2008 Report to the Nation.
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I urge the Boy Scouts to withdraw the offer.
I 2nd it.
While the Gay Scouts pack each others fudge to sell to America.
As a former scout,it bothers me when special interest groups try to change scouting to suit their needs.I wonder why they don’t go after the DAR or The NAACP or other exclusive organizations.
Screed the beeoutch. My shoes be akin...
Rank should not rate an automatic honor.
There are few organizations finer than the Boy Scouts. And when a nation stoops to the place where special interest groups actually have a chance to cause a president to forgo an honorary position, then that nation is almost on it’s last legs.
I fear for this nation today. If you would have told me twenty years ago, when Reagan was leaving office, that we would be where we are now, I would have told you it wasn’t possible.
May God have mercy on our nation. The Democrats sure won’t.
I'm sure he'd like to do this, but he also doesn't want to be a political turd circling the drain.
I understand your point, but I hope that they don't. Let Obama have to make an uncomfortable political decision for the first time in almost 5 weeks - finally.
He takes, he pisses off his base. He rejects it, it's a 4 or 5 day news story. BARACK OBAMA HATES THE BOY SCOUTS - it's political gold for the GOP. Scouting still popular in those important Midwest swing states.
That is some fudge I won’t buy.....
Anyone want to guess who, or what, he’s praying *to*?
i wonder if the scouts have a vested interest in whether or not 0bama is a natural born US citizen
Activists? Why can’t they simply say queers?
The Boy Scouts receive federal funding?
i remember the time when the boy scouts were booed by the DNC crowd at one of their past conventions when they stepped onto the stage with the national colors for either the pledge of allegiance or the national anthem....
> Rank should not rate an automatic honor.
Amen.
“There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.”
(Lord Acton in his letter to Bishop Creighton, 1887)
> Anyone want to guess who, or what, he’s praying *to*?
Molech, in the form of Allah. We know that based upon his position on child abortions. Molech needs a steady flow of sacrifices.
> He takes, he pisses off his base.
Or he undermines the Boy Scouts from within. I wouldn’t trust him near any Boy Scouts: he’s skilled with words and sly as a snake.
And anyrate, the very LAST thing we’d want is for Obama to be successful in persuading Boy Scouts to join his Civilian Security Service. If they did they would be a real force to be reckoned with.
I’d prefer to see Obama recruit all the crack-heads and gang-bangers he can find. We need the Boy Scouts on our side.
We’re ruled by a party that looks at Boy Scouts as terrorists and looks at terrorists as boy scouts.
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