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Posted By david_nwpa 1 year, 9 months ago in StyleThe governor of Texas argues in a new book that attacks on the Boy Scouts are the latest front in a "culture war" and the moral struggle for the country's future. Gov. Rick Perry was scheduled to be in New York on Wednesday to launch a book tour promoting "On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For.
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david_nwpa1 year, 9 months ago
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The Texas Governor thinks that sexuality has no business in and among a group of high school teens with raging hormones. He wants to instill family values and claims tolerance of gay people. I suppose he could look Jesse Jackson or Barack Obama in the face and say, I have never met a black man I did not like. How insipid! His euphemistic attitude and condescending tone irritate worse than fingernails on a chalkboard. Teenagers are human, and sexuality is a defining part of what it means to be human. Some humans are gay, deal with it! Why should gay kids or adults be denied the opportunity to go out into the wilderness and camp with their peers? Just because they are gay? Governor Perry is peddling his right wing crap along with the Boy Scouts to show that gay people are not tolerated as he puts it, but really second-class citizens.
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Itachirumon1 year, 9 months ago
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Gotta love how this guy wants to spin the gay issue. He makes it sound like gays wanna turn a campout into a gay pride parade. We aren't going to be flaunting it at every turn, it's just there. And if just being there is flaunting it then f.u.c.k the scouts
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StillUnashamed1 year, 9 months ago
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david_nwpa1 year, 9 months ago
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You have managed to misconstrue being gay with being a pedophile. People with the affliction known as pedophilia are not necessarily gay. Their sexual identity is usually either halted at a young age, or is undetermined. Claiming that being gay is the equivalent of being a pedophile reeks of pure ignorance. Very unbecoming.
Being gay is a part of being human. Gay people exist, and the sooner you can accept that, the sooner humanity as a whole can heal. It is comments like your last one that were shouted at Nazi rallies in Germany in the 1930s.
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hamy1 year, 9 months ago
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Wow. Your bigotry and hatred is showing.
I have sex with MEN because I am attracted to MEN. Pedophiles are typically straight men who are attracted to using power over young CHILDREN.
Do you see how that is different? MEN vs. CHILDREN. See?
Then they should receive no public funds. I whole heartedly agree with Philly taking back their public building from the BSA.
I was a boy scout all through school and I was gay. It never came up. It never interfered with my scouting. It never caused any problems. Why should it for anyone else?
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Itachirumon1 year, 9 months ago
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And just so you know Mr. Unashamed, I was referring to f.u.c.k-ing the scouts in the derrogatory not in the verb form of the word. Scouts not being scout members but the institution itself. Maybe you need to spend a little less time spinning and a little more time learning 10th grade sentence syntax structure. Idiot
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scott42611 year, 9 months ago
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Actually, a scout must have achieved the rank of Eagle by his 18th birthday. Some Eagles are still active until the fall after their senior year, when they either go to college, military, or otherwise get on with their young adult lives. Usually, interest in scouting ends there.
There are scouting opportunities to earn money for young adults (I worked in a summer camp as a college student). And Boy Scout troop leaders are usually adult men who are affiliate with the sponsor church or organization (My father was a member of the Methodist church sponsoring his troop).
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scott42611 year, 9 months ago
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Thanks for posting this, David.
My dad devoted his life to the Boy Scouts of America. It was an organization he believed in. Back in the '80s, I challenged his thinking on gays and the Boy Scouts because I came out as a gay man. And I am an Eagle Scout and the fact that I am gay prompted him to do a lot of soul-searching. Since then, my dad and I became close and he grew to accept that I am a gay man. I would say that my sexuality became a non-issue.
Dad died on February 6th. I share this because I believe that my relationship and friendship with him opened his mind in a way that otherwise wouldn't have happened. I don't think we ever completely understood each other, but I knew he loved and accepted me unconditionally.
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guncollector1 year, 8 months ago
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David knows nothing about the Boy Scouts. To become one you must take an oath to keep yourself PHYSICALLY STRONG AND MORALLY STRAIGHT. Gay men cannot do either of these things because of their sexual abberant acts. .
Gays are NOT denied the opportunity to go out into the wilderness. They are free to go there any time they wish to. To say that anyone is denying that right is to be utterly, whiningly stupid. If you want to go into the wilderness, JUST GO THERE and stop whining and crying about being denied.
The Scout Law-#11- says: A SCOUT IS CLEAN. GAYS CANNOT QUALIFY BECAUSE STICKING YOUR DICK IN SOMEONE'S ANAL ORIFICE IS DIRTY, AS DIRTY and as unhygenic AS IT GETS.
You can form your own CLUB and call it the Gay Scouts of Hell-merica. You have FREE WILL and can choose to not engage in gay sex. But you are too weak to use your FREE WILL. Aren't you??
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Howtogo1 year, 9 months ago
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How about just leaving the Boy Scouts alone! There organization has functioned just fine for many years like it is. What is so hard about understanding they don't want gay scout leaders mixing with young impressionable boys. I do understand that this would be a target rich environment for the gay movement, and to deny them the opportunity to play with the minds of theses boys is defiantly making them mad.
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StillUnashamed1 year, 9 months ago
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Howtogo is right. If pro-homosexuals (I refuse to call them "gay") want a youth organization that is open to homosexuals, they have every right to form one. They do not have the right to steal an existing youth organization that is based on religious principles.
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scott42611 year, 9 months ago
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OhmyGod. Gay people have always been in scouting. Largely to no consequence. And BTW, my only knowledge of any incidence of pedophilia in scouting occurred with a scoutmaster who was a married man with children of his own.
Point is, pedophilia is about POWER, NOT sexual orientation. 99% of gay men - like 99% of the population as a whole - find pedophiles repugnant. You continually try to lump gays and pedophiles together, which is complete nonsense. A sexual orientation and a mental disorder are not the same.
I know of NOT ONE gay man dismissed from scouting who molested a scout. Not one.
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