Posted on 05/09/2014 7:39:54 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
Pascal Tessier is a 17-year-old Eagle Scout in suburban Maryland who says scouting made him who he is today, with its lessons about morality, leadership and responsibility. And those very strengths, this openly gay high school senior said, are what compel and equip him to fight back now against Scout policies on gays that he believes are wrong.
After long, anxious debate, the Boy Scouts’ national board voted a year ago to allow openly gay youths to participate in scouting, while continuing to exclude gay leaders age 18 and over. It was promoted as a compromise intended to offer the organization time to figure out how to proceed.
Instead, it has brought the Scouts only more ire from all directions and produced a house divided.
The awkwardness of the compromise — don’t-ask-don’t-tell silence on the one hand, and a supposedly welcoming embrace on the other, with an 18th birthday dividing the two — has emboldened gay scouts like Pascal to step forward with passionate editorials and online petitions.
Conservative critics have been no less vehement. Rob Schwarzwalder, a senior vice president at the Family Research Council, a Washington-based group, said: “Judeo-Christian sexual ethics are fixed. Dislike or reject them, if you wish, but they are not malleable. How can two boys both pledge to be ‘morally straight’ when they operate out of two different moral perspectives concerning human sexuality?”
The partial ban is also proving legally problematic with two distinct classes of members treated differently.
In California, for example, state judges could be barred from involvement with the Boy Scouts under a proposed change of the rules on judicial ethics, which bar participation in groups practicing “invidious discrimination” but currently exempts “nonprofit youth organizations,” like the Scouts.
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“Tessier”
French name...any surprise?
In day now the new president of the Boy Scouts Robert Gates will give them something they didn’t want, but the homo-fascists do want, and that is sodomite scout leaders.
All those liberals that voted for DOMA in 1996 are hypocrite SOBs. They believe in playing follow the leader. Democrats have no mind of their own. When Barry Bathhouse flipped and said he was for queer “marriage” after saying to get elected he was for real marriage because “his faith tells him”,the rest of the hypocrites just follow the example of the hypocrite-in-chief. Mindless, immoral, follow-the-header
hypocrites describes the entire DEMONcrap party.
The gays will be very very pleased by the direction Gates will take the BSA
“The Republicans are expert in compromising but give away 99.99% to get .01% from the enemy (Liberals) and call it a victory”
No media outlets stands up for Christians anymore. Marriage is NEVER DISCUSSED on network news channels anymore. Faux News was the last channel to cave into the sodomite agenda.
The radical judges that are overruling the will of the people ARE NEVER MENTIONED ON FAUX NEWS. When gates finally lets queers become Scout leaders FAUX NEWS will also not mention that. Criticism of the sodomite agenda is forbidden in America. The the truth about homosexuality or the Word of God and your life is ruined forever.
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