It was just the other day when I posted about Eric Jones,
who was a member of the Boy Scouts for over ten years, and was asked the leave the
group for announcing that he was gay. See story HERE.
And now comes word that after a confidential—read: secret—two-year
review, the Boy Scouts of America [BSA] have decided to keep hate and
bigotry and intolerance and homophobia as part of their character building
mission.
Yup, the BSA will stay anti-LGBT.
And they cited support from parents as one of the reasons
they want to keep the hate alive and say they hope the debate will now subside.
Fat-fucking-chance. You’ve come out and said, plainly, that
you will continue to ask that all your members be heterosexual or drummed out
of the group. How will this ever subside? How do you expect clear-minded,
rational thinking people to sit idly by while you discriminate against anyone
due to their sexual orientation?
We won’t. I won’t.
Deron Smith, BSA spokes-asshat, said that an eleven-member
special committee, formed discreetly—quietly and in hiding—by top Scout leaders
back in 2010, came to the conclusion that the exclusion policy "is
absolutely the best policy" for the 102-year-old organization.
Asshat say what? Discrimination is the best policy? On what
effing planet?
Smith said the committee, made up of homophobic professional
scout executives and homophobic adult volunteers, was unanimous in its
conclusion that preserving the BSA’s long-standing policy—a policy upheld,
sadly, by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000—was the best course.
Now the BSA national executive board will take no further
action on the resolution that was submitted at its recent national conference
asking for reconsideration of the membership policy.
BSA chief homophobic executive, Bob Mazzuca, says, "The
vast majority of the parents of youth we serve value their right to address
issues of same-sex orientation within their family, with spiritual advisers and
at the appropriate time and in the right setting. We fully understand that no single policy
will accommodate the many diverse views among our membership or society."
So, address the “issue” of gayness in your homes and your
churches and on the couches of your shrinks, but do not ask that young gay men
and women stay closeted or face being ousted from a group that says it’s
mission is to create character, unless your mission is to create a character of
hate.
Naturally, as happens in most of these hate groups—of which I
now consider the BSA—the identities of those eleven people who advocate
discrimination will be shielded, no doubt by white robes and pointy hats.
Hate is wrong, BSA, and to teach it and advocate it is, actually,
even worse.
