[upchuck]

The BSA is a private organization. It doesn't make any difference what Mitt Romney, nobama or anyone else thinks. The BSA can run their organization as they see fit:

In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale that Boy Scouts, and all private organizations, have the constitutionally protected right under the First Amendment of freedom of association to set membership standards. Source.

The queers need to go jump on each other.

I'm disappointed at Romney's stance on this. But no politician in the world meets all of my criteria for POTUS. There are several politicians that come closer to my ideal than Romney. Unfortunately, they aren't in the running for POTUS.

I feel we have to play with the cards we're dealt. Unless something changes and because my overriding concern is to have my vote truly count towards getting rid of nobama, I find myself reluctantly voting for Romney.

[gleeaikin]

How does the fact the BSA has a charter from the Federal Government affect your statement? Does this fall in the same category that ultimately overturned the right of restaurants to choose to serve or not serve people of color?

[Finny]

I feel we have to play with the cards we're dealt.

You've got that right. And one of the cards we have to play is PLURALITY. The last time a liberal was elected president on a plurality, conservatives impeached him; the time before that, they bulldozed him with the Republican Revolution. Pluralities favor conservatives.

Getting rid of "Nobama" is a flawed priority if you are only able to replace him with a Republican who advances all the same things Democrats do, and ROMNEY DOES. To describe Romney as simply "not meeting all criteria" is duplicitous -- in fact and in deed, Romney has ADVANCED every single major liberal agenda. Newt or Cain or Santorum would have required compromise on the part of conservatives; Romney requires absolute surrender. LOOK AT THE MAN'S RECORD.

We CAN and WOULD survive another four years of Obama, especially if he was elected on a plurality -- if he was as powerful as the GOP wants you to believe (fear of Obama is their only argument for voting for a liberal like Romney), then we wouldn't be having this conversation nor elections in 2012.

Vote for a plurality. That's the best hand we've got.

[Charles Henrickson]

The BSA is a private organization. It doesn't make any difference what Mitt Romney, nobama or anyone else thinks. The BSA can run their organization as they see fit.

You have hit the nail on the head. As president, Romney will not be dictating Boy Scout policy. The one relevant quote from the article is that Romney supports "the right of the Boy Scouts of America to decide what it wants to do on that issue."

I'm still voting for Romney over Obama.