Posted on 02/08/2002 9:02:07 PM PST by Khepera
Poll Question:
The topic of Gays and Scouting seems to be omnipresent on this forum. Given the amount of current discussion, it might be interesting to see where we all stand on this issue.
I ask everyone to be on their Scouts Honor and vote only once:
If Avowed Gays were let in Boy Scouts I would:
Current Results -- 12 total votes:
Leave Boy Scouts 3 / 25.0%
Stay in Boy Scouts 9 / 75.0%
[French, from Old French.]
Word History: Bigots may have more in common with God than one might think. Legend has it that Rollo, the first duke of Normandy, refused to kiss the foot of the French king Charles III, uttering the phrase bi got, his borrowing of the assumed Old English equivalent of our expression by God. Although this story is almost surely apocryphal, it is true that bigot was used by the French as a term of abuse for the Normans, but not in a religious sense. Later, however, the word, or very possibly a homonym, was used abusively in French for the Beguines, members of a Roman Catholic lay sisterhood. From the 15th century on Old French bigot meant “an excessively devoted or hypocritical person.” Bigot is first recorded in English in 1598 with the sense “a superstitious hypocrite.”
2. A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.
What’s wrong with bigotry? Without bigotry we would never take a stand or hold any value or idea as fundamentally true. We would be willing to compromise on everything. But then again, that’s what the liberals want.
Who posted that pic! EWWWWWWW!!
At a camporee I remember winning a fire building contest. We brought a hatchet and ONE match, and were given a short piece of 2x4 ONLY to make the fire with. Had to shave that 2x4 into splinters for tinder, than so on until the fire was burning high enough to reach and burn the string. I just found out that my old Scoutmaster from over 20 years ago has moved back home and is now Scoutmaster at our old troop again. Pretty cool.
Be prepared.
I have 3 young sons who have been in scouting and I appreciate that while they are not a Christian organization, they do promote Christian style moral values. That in itself is reason enough to give them our support. Even other religions recognize homosexuality as immoral so that even they would feel comfortable in the boy scouts. The only people who would not feel comfortable would be atheists, sodomites, possibly Polytheists. I'm sure that’s a small minority of folks. Why should a few bad apples spoil the barrel unless we allow it.
Homophobia? What is that? Not wanting your kid to go camping with someone who feels compelled to tell children that he likes to have sex with other men? Are women expecting a baby who wish for a normal heterosexual child "homophobic?"
Odd that someone on FR would adopt the langauge of the left the way you do. But then you think conservatives not calling for a special prosecutor to go after Cheney is hypocritical, don't you?
8 posted on 2/8/02 10:33 PM Pacific by Brad's Gramma ***
Newsflash for Granny: Some people have lives, you ninnie! LOL
I invite everyone else to check you out to. This is a conservative forum; it's not here for you libs to try to throw cold water on everything conservative. I especially love it when libs try to give "advice" and "help".
BUH-bye.
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