To: SoFloFreeper
From the article
Secrecy, Heavy-Handed Tactics Reported at Boy Scouts Meeting:
"Reports are that BSA has asked hotel staff to confiscate any literature or leaflets that are not approved by BSAs top leadershipmeaning anything that disagrees with the proposed change.
These leaders organized an informational meeting for the voting delegates, mostly dedicated to persuading delegates to change BSAs longstanding policy.
This becomes all the more interesting since all three of Texas most prominent statewide leadersGov. Rick Perry, Sen. John Cornyn, and Sen. Ted Cruzhave openly encouraged the Scouts to maintain the current policy.
As an example of the muzzling tactics in play,one supporter of the traditional policy went to the FedEx shop in the Gaylord to print copies of the Dallas Morning News ad presenting the reasons for maintaining the current policy.
This was to counter the USA Today op-ed from BSAs Chief Scout Executive Wayne Perryleading the effort to change the current policythat was distributed in the hotel.
The traditional policy supporter was suddenly confronted by Daron Smith, the PR Director for BSA, accompanied by two hotel security guards with earpieces and handheld radios,who told him he would not be allowed to distribute the literature within the hotel.
It also seems that outside literature was not allowed from the other side, either,
but such literature would seem unnecessary after the USA Today piece.
When confronted, the FedEx manager admitted that when he saw the handouts being printed in the shop
that he contacted the hotel to tip off BSA staff so they could respond.
Its also being reported by those onsite that media reporters are not being allowed inside the Gaylord.
Anyone familiar with how lobbying works knows it should raise eyebrowswhen people don't allow reporters or cameras to cover events on the ground."
So Pro-Homosexual Leaders in the Boy Scouts Of America don't believe in fairness or in free speech.
40 posted on
05/24/2013 9:40:16 AM PDT by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
Its also being reported by those onsite that media reporters are not being allowed inside the Gaylord. Well, there's a tip-off.
We know who the lord of the BSA is now, don't we?
This Wayne Perry character must be a real piece of work.
And of what business was it of the FedEx manager if someone was pringint up material that they were paying for?
42 posted on
05/24/2013 9:51:55 AM PDT by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: Yosemitest
What was the actual vote? I saw one place say it was ‘60%+’ for the change. What % of local Scout leaders who could vote did?
Freegards
44 posted on
05/24/2013 10:03:23 AM PDT by
Ransomed
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