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| Homosexual, Atheist Agitators To March On Boy Scout Camp |
| 2005-09-27 |
| A coalition of homosexual activists and atheists plan to march on a Boy Scout camp in San Diego next month demanding the organization open its membership and leadership to them. The group Scouting For All plans to march and rally at a Boy Scout camp Oct. 9. Beside demanding the Boy Scouts open their ranks to practicing homosexuals and atheists, the group also apparently seeks the admission of girls to the organization. Scouting For All's mission statement say it is "to influence the Boy Scouts of America to serve and include as participating members all youth and adult leaders, regardless of their spiritual beliefs, gender, or sexual orientation." In previous protests, the group has equated the Boy Scouts with the Ku Klux Klan. The group has attracted celebrities in its cause. "Institutionalized homophobia in the Scouts or in church or school is the cruelest of all," said Ian McKellan, the actor who played Gandolf in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, in an appearance for the group. "It makes life miserable for young gay people and it misleads their peers with regard to the 'truth' about gay people – that they are remarkably similar to the rest." Support for the latest protest of the Scouts by the group comes from the American Civil Liberties Union and some homosexual activist organizations. Oh, golly. If I had but a platoon of plainclothes Marines with axe handles... |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #21 Mucky, have you been reading any Iain Banks? Feersum Endjinn? Your accent seems a trifle different. |
| Posted by: asedwich 2005-09-27 23:32 |
| #20 Your lips are moving, McKellen, but it's Melkor's voice I hear. |
| Posted by: Korora 2005-09-27 20:31 |
| #19 Somebody needs to found the Barney Franks Scouts. |
| Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-09-27 14:29 |
| #18 Time to work on the Rifle and Shotgun merit badges. |
| Posted by: Mike 2005-09-27 13:11 |
| #17 me ole troop hadder girl in it. she quit tho after she wuz toled she culdnt tent with anee guys. doent say in em handbook girls not alowed. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-09-27 12:01 |
| #16 Can it get any more Surreal? Well, there hasn't been a Cindy Sheehan sighting yet. |
| Posted by: Dreadnought 2005-09-27 10:24 |
| #15 Gandalf the Gay leading the Elves and the Atheists VS The Boy Scouts. Can it get any more Surreal? |
| Posted by: imoyaro 2005-09-27 10:03 |
| #14 well, looks like my Oct 9th plans are made. Protest Warrior San Diego |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-09-27 09:52 |
| #13 This whole thing reads like a Karl Rove plot to me because it all sounds so self-destructive... homosexuals diluting their demands with atheists and (ick) girls! no less. The unwitting press latches onto it like a tick on a white dog, and plays it as if we should take it seriously. Homosexuals are not popular enough! To become more popular, we have aligned ourselves with people even less popular than ourselves! Can we play with you now? |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-09-27 09:47 |
| #12 Fictional homosexual wizards: Why do they hate us? |
| Posted by: Chris W. 2005-09-27 09:38 |
| #11 Beside demanding the Boy Scouts open their ranks to practicing homosexuals and atheists, the group also apparently seeks the admission of girls to the organization. It's never been about equality or acceptance. It's always been about power. These group, long ago, figured out that in a truely democratic society they can not gain power, so they turned to the one institution that has power and is not accountable to the people - the judiciary. That institution has granted these small number of activists and agitators power far beyond that which any republic could tolerate. As long as the judiciary remains directly unaccountable to the people, these events and their sponsors will be permited to impose their views upon the rest of us. |
| Posted by: Elmereng Pheating4146 2005-09-27 09:03 |
| #10 If there are so many queers in scouting, why don't they start their own organization? Because of course the activists aren't truely interested in getting a few queers into scouting. It's also about a perverse desire for unconditional acceptance and the tag of "normal" which I doubt they'll ever get. And young meat. You can't forget the young meat. |
| Posted by: asedwich 2005-09-27 08:51 |
| #9 Something ain't right here... Beside demanding the Boy Scouts open their ranks to practicing homosexuals and atheists, the group also apparently seeks the Now it makes sense! |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-09-27 08:47 |
| #8 Time for tar and feathers. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2005-09-27 08:36 |
| #7 Some evangelical churches sponsor a Pioneer Scouts program which is separate but equal to the BSA, but with an emphasis on Christianity. If there are so many queers in scouting, why don't they start their own organization? Because of course the activists aren't truely interested in getting a few queers into scouting. It's all about tearing down the fabric of society and its network of local and civil organizations that Tocqueville so well described. |
| Posted by: James Beam 2005-09-27 08:26 |
| #6 "Institutionalized homophobia in the Scouts or in church or school is the cruelest of all," What a remarkably low threshold for "cruelest of all". |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-09-27 07:20 |
| #5 Umm, scandal, of course |
| Posted by: Beau 2005-09-27 03:30 |
| #4 Gandolf? WTF? I thought the hobbits liked the elves! Jeesh, what a scandle ... |
| Posted by: Beau 2005-09-27 03:29 |
| #3 Time to practice those snares and deadfalls, boys... |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-09-27 01:32 |
| #2 Sounds like a good time for the scouts to pick up the Rifle merit badge to me. These moonbats should be met in the proper way, with HE and rifle fire. Course, I'd add flamethrowers, but I'm partial to them. I don't know..maybe we should start going to their groups and demand that they open their membership to the Hetero and Monotheistic. Every time they start a lawsuit, start five against them. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2005-09-27 00:59 |
| #1 Support for the latest protest of the Scouts by the group comes from the American Civil Liberties Union Turn over any rock and they come squirming out. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2005-09-27 00:35 |