Scouts unbowed by Berkeley bullies

Orange County Times ^ | Feb. 28, 2003 | Harold Johnson

[InvisibleChurch]

Formated for easy reading:

Oh, now what's wrong the jack kerouac method of reading, besides the fact that it gives you a grinding headache and makes you have "Charlie Manson' moments? ...

You know, the scouts are the same people who will protect and defend the slobs who rail against them. I hereby rescind Berkely's previous declaration and make them a 'ground zero' zone.

[HighWheeler]

madg, you sure need to work on comprehension. You missed so many nuances, and so many facts, that I don't think it would be worth my time to correct them all.

A gross example of these comprehension misses would be your reply "The membership fee has been reported as SEVEN dollars per year."

The reference was to the $500 berthing fee:

"...the Sea Scouts in 1998 were suddenly hit with a charge of more than $500 per month. No other nonprofit is required to pay to berth at the marina. The fee is imposed explicitly because of the Sea Scouts' affiliation with the Boy Scouts.

[RAT Patrol]

The BSA is not the only entity in the land that is entitled to adhere to its own policies. On that narrow but vital point we are in total agreement. But the city, in this case, is being very hypocritical.

[Kevin Curry]

More importantly, if I myself cannot become a member of that group . . .

Of course you can be a member of "that group" (as an adult volunteer if not as a socut). What makes you believe you can't?

[BlueLancer]

VARMINT CONG ALERT!!!

Another potential sleeper has awoken.

[HighWheeler]

I think you may be correct on the Cong Alert sleeper theory. madg signed up 2001-12-01, but the sleeper cell recently awoke on 2-24-03.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/finduser?user=madg

Since the sleeper cell awoke, he has fully defended the liberal gay agenda to the hilt while simultaneously attacking every point of liberty, privacy, rights, and constitutionality made by others.

[Mr Ducklips]

Are you claiming that the entire city of Berkeley is composed of "gay activists?" Or that all the hundreds or thousands of other municipalities, organizations, and corporations with anti-discrimination laws and policies are ALL composed of "gay activists?" The BSA is not the only entity in the land that is entitled to adhere to its own policies.

Yeah, well they seem to be calling the shots in Berkeley on this issue. And at the United Way, too, among others.

Seems to me that the BSA is damned either way: Let known homosexuals become scout leaders, and open yourself up to pedophile lawsuits; or deny known homosexuals the ability to become scout leaders, and Berkeley, United Way, ad nauseum, take away their merit badges.

[Freedom4US]

Just goes to show the lefts much-vaunted and oft repeated declarations of "tolerance" and "diversity" is a complete sham.

[Kevin Curry]

It is a matter of public knowledge that I am a gay man.

Then it isn't you who is unwelcome. It is your behavior choice that is unwelcome.

So, let me ask you again: what makes you believe that you are unwelcome?

[HighWheeler]

"But your last comments are untrue, unfair, and offensive."

You see it that way because you have a proven rudimentary level of reading comprehension.

The Boy Scouts have a 501(c)3 non-profit charter directly authorized by Congress. They are being treated differently because of discrimination by certain groups like ACLU, Berkeley City Council of Socialists, and GLAAD.

Why do liberal groups have to horn in on everyone else's PRIVATE party? They are not welcome, they are not invited, yet they insist on ruining PRIVATE organizations only to satify their selfish little point that American people endowed with freedom of association choose to not associate with these types of people. That is exactly why you are a socialist.

Why don't the members of GLAAD start their own Gay NAMBLA Boy Scouts group, and see how many parents approve of the weekend camping trips? Please don't tell me how the merit badges would be earned, either.

[Non-Sequitur]

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[Byron_the_Aussie]

...what Harold calls "government assaults" are actually municipal policies... Is the BSA the only entity in existence entitled to adhere to its own policies?....

Whose policies do you think it should adhere to, Madg?