Posted on 06/13/2014 1:21:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Attorney General of the United States told a homosexual advocacy group on Tuesday night that the Boy Scouts of America "preserves and perpetuates the worst kind of stereotypes" by refusing to allow homosexuals to serve as Boy Scout troop leaders.
"Today, courageous lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals routinely put their lives on the line as members of America's armed services," Holder told Lambda Legal Tuesday night. "And if these men and women are fit for military service, then surely they are fit to mentor, to teach, and to serve as role models for the leaders of future generations."
In June 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5–4 ruling, said the Boy Scouts had a constitutional right, as a private organization, to exclude homosexuals from leadership positions.
Almost nine years later, President Obama came into office, pledging to repeal the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. In December 2010, he signed a bill passed by the Democrat-majority Congress repealing the ban on homosexual men and women serving openly in the armed services.
Holder received a warm reception Tuesday night at the Lambda Legal reception, where he promised that the fight for civil rights and "LGBT equality" remains a "top priority," not only for the Justice Department, but "for me personally."
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Which is the same as saying that the DOJ is about to launch some type of persecution of the Boy Scouts for being “homophobic”.
He would seriously trust his own child alone with a homo?
Generally, homosexual men don’t have kids, so what would be their reasoning for getting involved with scouts in the first place?
Sick. These people are plain sick. And by sick, I mean evil.
RE: He would seriously trust his own child alone with a homo?
You gotta understand.... to a liberal like Eric Holder’s mind, there is a difference between a homosexual and a pedophile.
The former don’t like children, the latter do.
At least that’s what a gay acquaintance of mine tells me...
I still can't shake the nightmarish thought that our Constitutional rights hang by the whim of one black-robed dictator.
Shhhh, don't give the son of a bitch any ideas.
RE: I still can’t shake the nightmarish thought that our Constitutional rights hang by the whim of one black-robed dictator.
Obama still has until 2016 left in his term. You better pray that nothing bad happens to any of the conservative justices in our Supreme court because if it does, the balance WILL shift towards the left and you just might have your nightmare come true.
CHILDREN generally aren’t in the military & subject to predation by perverted adults.
Mitt Romney has supported gay Scout leaders for 20 years, and punished the organization in the 2002 winter Olympics.
1994: “I’ll be better than Ted Kennedy” on gay rights
GovWatch: 1994: Favored gays serving openly in military
“I feel that all people should be allowed to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation.”
Romney Says Boy Scouts Should Admit Homosexuals
August 9, 2012
(CNSNews.com) – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney this week reiterated his view that the Boy Scouts of America should admit homosexuals as Scouts and Scout leaders. He also supports the right of the Scouts to decide their own policies.
Romney first expressed his view that the Boy Scouts should admit homosexuals in 1994. When Romney was running for the U.S. Senate that year against Democrat Sen. Ted Kennedy, he said “all people should be allowed to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation.”
Smith continued, “You also sit on the national Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America, which has an exclusionary policy banning gay members. Do you support that policy and, if not, have you ever done anything as a board member to oppose it?”
Romney campaign spokesperson Andrea Saul confirmed to the Associated Press on Aug. 5 that Romney maintains the position he took back in 1994.
When asked for direct confirmation that Gov. Romney maintains the same position he held in 1994, the Romney campaign referred CNSNews.com to several past quotations regarding Romney’s opposition to the ban, including that of the 1994 debate.”
is he for normal male scoutmasters leading girl scout troops into overnite camping trips, as well?
he has to be or he’s a efing hypocrite.
Intellectually dishonest, in that Holder and those of his marxist ilk are the only ones deciding that gays are fit for military service.
Hey Holder, they aren’t fit for military duty, how can they take orders from their CO, when they can’t take orders from God on what sex they are?
Holder you are a MORON.
If Eric Holder is fit to be Attorney General, he is fit to KMA!!!!
Affirmative-action wonder, criminal holder is fit to be imprisoned.
General Holder, keep your damned nose out of our business.
How in the name of anything decent, is THIS what consumes this freaks thoughts? Is THIS what he is required to spend his time on? Is there NO illegal actions going on that require his attention??
Agenda agenda agenda, I am sick to death of it.
Who is paying and pushing him to focus on this??
Does the converse apply? If they are not fit for military service then they are not fit to lead a Scout troop.
That's just it Holder, THEY'RE NOT! They are not fit to be in the military, and therefore are not fit to lead the Boy Scouts.
What a duffus............
What a commie douche.
As an Eagle, I was reluctant to give up on the fight to preserve what used to be one of the finest institutions on God's green earth. But they gave me no choice.
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