BSA Affirms That Hate Is Character Building

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. 

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