Mitt Romney also supports homo activists in their war against the Boy Scouts.
Starting during the Clinton Administration (does the name Roberta Achtenberg ring a bell?) the Boy Scouts came under relentless fire by the Democrats and their newsrooms for rejecting the idea that they, the Boy Scouts of America, should welcome homosexual scout leaders into the organization and let them take little boys off into the woods. Boy Scouts leaders didn’t think this was such a good idea. Naturally, Massachusetts Mittens sided with the homo activists.
Below are a couple of columns from 10 and 12 years ago about the Boy Scouts being turned away by Mitt Romney and the Olympics Committee for volunteer work on the Salt Lake Olympics. The Boy Scouts had been very active and high profile at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and were looking forward to participating once again. But the Boy Scouts had just won an important Supreme Court case (in June 2000 the Supreme Court ruled that the BSA was a private organization that could choose whoever they wanted as scout leaders and could therefore reject sodomites) and the Democrats/homos were still mighty ticked off about it. Massachusetts Mittens could always be counted on to pander to homo activists, of course, so he gladly came up with a lame lie of an excuse for turning the Boy Scouts away from the Salt Lake Olympics. The Boy Scouts’ disappointment was palpable, and Mitt Romney never returned their calls.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/12/15/214301.shtml
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/7/135258.shtml
Given the way the Mormons use the Boy Scouts as their de facto youth organization, this is shocking. I had no idea.
(Nothing against the Boy Scouts in this regard — they let churches sponsor Scout troops, and the Mormons have chosen to use the Boy Scouts rather than creating their own youth organizations. Since the Boy Scouts require belief in a god but are not specific in which god, there's nothing wrong with the Boy Scouts admitting Mormons, Jews, or any other faith group to membership.)
On this point, it would be expected that Mitt Romney would be very familiar with the Boy Scouts and their policies, and in a state like Utah with the Salt Lake City Olympics, I would think that being against the Boy Scouts would be roughly like being a Southern Baptist in Alabama and opposing church youth groups.
Somebody show me where I'm wrong, if I am.
Thank you again to Free Republic for finding things which the mainstream media should be finding, but isn't.