Advocates: Romney backs gay scouts, Obama is silent (Reaffirms 1994 position)

There is one social issue on which Mitt Romney is more liberal than President Obama — that of urging the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to accept gay scouts.

Mr. Romney said in 1994 that while it was up to BSA to set its own policy, he thought the scouts should allow gay boys in, and this week his campaign reaffirmed that stance to the Associated Press. The 1994 comments came as he was running to unseat then-Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in Massachusetts.

Now Scouts for Equality, a group pushing for the national scouting group to allow gay boys to join, said it's time for Mr. Obama — who as president is the honorary president of the scouts — to take the same stand.

"I'm happy to hear that Mitt Romney's campaign confirmed his support for the participation of my family, and families like mine, in the Boy Scouts of America," said Jennifer Tyrrell, a former cub scout den leader who is lesbian, said in a statement. "I think President Obama should also let the public know what he thinks about a cultural institution like the Boy Scouts banning gay Americans."

Ms. Tyrell, who was dismissed as a den leader, is leading a petition drive to try to get BSA to change its policy to allow gay scouts and scout leaders. After a two-year review, BSA leaders announced last month that they would not change longstanding policies against openly gay scouts and adult scout leaders.

I guess we are suppose to forget that in the SLC Olympics Romney refused to allow the Boy Scouts to volunteer claiming it was because of their age.

Romney makes liars of his supporters!

Funny, how there was no problem with their participation in other Olympics, isn't it?

http://www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/romney/record/

The 2002 Olympics - run by Mitt Romney - was the only Olympics that restricted the Boy Scouts from participating. According to news reports, this was apparently because of pressure from homosexual activists. (But also, according to reports, homosexual groups participated fairly prominently.) Romney would not respond to reporters' questions about that action.

The largest Boy Scout council in the country responded to the call for volunteers issued by the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee, but the welcome mat was rolled up and the door slammed in its face. Olympic spokesmen for the 2002 winter games say the exclusion has nothing to do with recent protests by gay activists. While the organizing committee for the Olympic event is prominently displaying a call for local volunteers, they have explicitly let it be known that the Boy Scouts need not apply. "For us not to be involved is discouraging, considering the Atlanta games. The Scouting council there was extremely involved," said Kay Godfrey, professional Scout executive for the Great Salt Lake Council of Boy Scouts.

- NewsMax.com, Dec. 18, 2000

Stop lying for Mitt wit.

Thank you for the response. I have some questions.

The choice to be gay is just that, a conscious freewill choice to do wrong

A young man or boy who is “taught” to be gay

You seem to be contradicting yourself. If you are not taught that it is wrong, how can you be choosing to do wrong ?

If you don't get to an 'environment' (say, the Boy Scouts) where you see that it is 'wrong', then how will you think 'you' are wrong ?

How exactly do you determine that a child is 'gay' ? What if they go through Boy Scouts and end up gay later ?

What about boys who are thieves ? Fat momma's boys ? Can we keep them out as well ?

How the heck did this whole issue change from the ADULTS to the CHILDREN ? Is it to keep us from focusing on the ADULTS ?

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