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Default Boy Scouts Vote To Allow Gays

On Fri, 24 May 2013 21:09:05 -0700
Jeanne Douglas wrote:
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harry wrote:
On May 24, 2:27*pm, "Doug" wrote:
On Fri, 24 May 2013 07:11:07 -0500, "Attila Iskander"
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On Thu, 23 May 2013 21:36:09 -0700
Jeanne Douglas wrote:
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*Mitchell Holman nomailverizon.net wrote:

Boy Scouts vote to lift ban on gay youth
May 23 2013

GRAPEVINE, Texas -- The Boy Scouts of America voted
Thursday to end its controversial policy banning gay
kids and teens from joining one of the nation's most
popular youth organizations, ditching membership
guidelines that had roiled the group in recent years.
Over 61 percent of Scouting's National Council of 1,400
delegates from across the country voted to lift the ban,
BSA officials said. The final tally was 757 yes votes,
to 475 no.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...couts-vote-to-
lift-ban-on-gay-youth?lite

It's about ****ing time!

Next step is to allow atheists. Until that day, the Boy
Scouts are still a bigoted organization.

The fact that they had to take it to a vote seems strange to
me, but it's good to know that 39% of the upper echelon are
still anti-gay.

It's disappointing that people give as much respect to The Boy
Scouts as they do. *The organization is defective and needs
new leadership that respects and embraces the personal
freedoms of its membership.

You always have the choice of joining and trying to change it
Alternately you can start something equivalent modified to meet
your standards.

Always funny to see people come along and criticize a group of
people who join together for whatever reasons , that don't meet
the critics' standards.

What a bunch of homophobics. * Being a former boy scout myself
many years ago, we didn't think about it then and for all I know,
perhaps some were gay then but were in the closet. * So now it's
just more official, that's all. *For me, as long as they keep
their hands off, let it be.

Now taking to the next level, what do we do with transgenders
wanting to be in the boy scouts? * That's where I have a problem
deciding.


What about paedophiles? They should be admitted also.


Nonsense.


Ha ha! That's a moot point anyway because the Roman Catholic Church has
had that niche "cornered" for centuries, and managed to keep a "tight
grip" on it for a very long duration.

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Fidem Turbāre, the non-existent atheist goddess
"My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw
any reason to limit myself."
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