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I would like to know more about this event. However, from what I read I'd have to condemn it. The BSA is supposed to be apolitical, and should not get involved in sponsoring anything like this. The BSA is not a "conservative" organization. It is not a "liberal" organization. It is not a "centrist" organization. It should not be involved in politics at all. It has it's own message, and it's own way of promoting it.

Ann Coulter should not be speaking with a BSA symbol at her back, nor should any other politician or political commentator. The only people who should be doing that are BSA personnel talking about the BSA.

This does not mean that it cannot appear at political functions to perform civic duties such as a flag ceremony, etc., but when that's over they leave the stage and don't have anything to do with sponsoring the message being given there.

The Constitution guarantees the right of associating with people you choose to be with. If this idiot didn't want to be with people who choose not to associate with gays, he should have stayed away.

My personal opinion is that he went to this place with the expectation of being offended so he could write about it.

A Recall AND a Fundraiser? I'm toast.

Let's get this over with FAST. Please contribute!

From here, on National Council's own web site:

Scouting aims to immerse America's youth in character-building experiences without subjecting them to the politics of the day. No youth organization or club should ever be used as a vehicle for promoting a political or social agenda. Childhood is too important.

Scouting, with its core in small-town America, was always going to be one of the last to make that change.

This guy should get his head screwed on straight. Rural America isn't the same as urban America. Those people living in the heartland aren't as easily swayed to perversion as are those living in crowded cities.

Such rhetoric is hardly noteworthy in today's culture, but what made it sting was the fact that it came at an official Boy Scout event

That kind of rhetoric wouldn't have been necessary a generation ago. Gays have brought the Boy Scouts into the political arena because they've been denied access to a body of boys that they see as prey.

What the writer fails to mention is the magic of boyhood for homosexuals has more to do with sodomy than with merit badges. Rural people understand this and will not let their sons become prey to perverts as easily as urban parents will.

"On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty, to God and my country ...." Even today, many years later, those words from the Boy Scout pledge bring to mind camping trips and corny singalongs, troop meetings in dank church basements, summer camps and late-night whispering sessions in which we swapped dirty jokes that we didn't fully understand.

No actually "On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty, to God and my country" means "On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty, to God and my country".

"On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty, to God and my country ...." Even today, many years later, those words from the Boy Scout pledge bring to mind camping trips and corny singalongs, troop meetings in dank church basements, summer camps and late-night whispering sessions in which we swapped dirty jokes that we didn't fully understand.

No actually "On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty, to God and my country" means "On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty, to God and my country".

Boy scouts just last week had to kick out a sick pervert who fondled 4 boys he was supposed to be teaching scuba diving to! Don't give me this hogwash that Homosexuality is morally equivalent to heterosexuality.

I don't care what gays do in their bedrooms or their homes, but they are never ever going to be trusted en masse around teenagers and young adults... and frankly NOR SHOULD THEY.

Get over yourself, let your 12 year old hang out in the Castro district for a while and see how exactly "equivalent" it is... hell, just go walk down that street and tell me you would find the overt sexuality and nudity pushed into the public there anywhere else in america.

Sorry, Gays have no business en masse around teen boys in potentially compromising situations, no more than Heterosexual young men have any business en masse around teenage girls in potentially compromising situations.

I won't send my 15 year old daughter out in the woods with a 22 year old man alone, why would you think I'd send my 15 year old son out into the woods alone with a 22 year old gay man alone?

I'd be derelict as a parent if I allowed either. Gay men must be treated just a much of a potential predatory animal around teenage boys as straight men must be around teenage girls... Pure and simple.