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Originally posted by smyleegrl
reply to post by r2d246
I hope you are being facetious...
Originally posted by Darkblade71
My sons were never in the boy scouts because of this reason.
We taught freedom in my household, freedom to be who you are and what you are.
Originally posted by r2d246
Originally posted by smyleegrl
reply to post by r2d246
I hope you are being facetious...
Well I have this theory. It goes like this. The only way someone becomes gay is by recruitment as they can't reproduce there ranks. So I think often how that happens is a gay will impose themselves on some other same sex victim. Like I heard with stuff like alterboys or scouts or coaches, the kids hold the leader in very high esteem. So if the leader one day starts hitting on and or molesting the kid they might go along with it as they don't want to offend there leader. Look it up! I'm not making this up. This happens all all day everyday! And gays seems to have this thing for both straight and virgins, as it's the corruption of innocence that's there thrill in some perverted way. Anyway I hate talking about gays, so that's all I'm gonna say. I'm already getting sick! ewhhh!
Originally posted by ToneDeaf
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Boy Scouts is a social group for male bonding, thus it's a no
brainier that gays would disrupt certain situations and make
things difficult eg. : use of urinals, would it be wise for
an adult gay Scout to use common urinals with same sex minors ?
Are parents o.k. with that arrangement ? I think not, nor would it be
a comfortable situation for the gay person.
. . . on the other hand having gay males in Girl Scouts would work except
for the fact that girl bonding would be confusing for some.
Fact is that gays have special needs of their own, and their own
social requirements. Instead of molding others to their needs they should
just have 'bonding' clubs etc.
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Originally posted by milkyway12
reply to post by detachedindividual
Courts also agree with me. The KKK can gather in public places and at schools. So racism cant be that bad if the courts permit racist sects to gather at public events and schools.
Originally posted by DanaKatherineScully
From what i have read here & on the linked site is that the Scouts are funded privately by religious groups, predominantly Catholic & Christian groups thus it can basically do what it wants.
Originally posted by TTAA2012
I'm sick of progressives thinking that they can just waltz in and change the rules because someone's feelings might get hurt or be excluded
Originally posted by DarthMuerte
AFAIK, homosexuality is a choice.
Originally posted by dayve
reply to post by detachedindividual
I never said i deserve more rights than a gay person, thats like saying i have more rights than a jewish person... Its no different than a religion in my book.... And no i dont talk to my gay friends about that stuff because they keep it to them self... I know three couples, who are married, they are affectionate in public and thats fine... But they dont throw it in peoples face, or get mad when people disagree, they dont give a ****.... Y would a teenage boy need to make it known to his boyscouts that he is gay....? Knowing he is gonna ruffle feathers.... You know they didn't ask him out of the blue.
In accordance with the principles of Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, Scouting was supposed to overcome religious and class differences. He wrote, "The religion of a man is not the creed he professes but his life — what he acts upon, and knows of life, and his duty in it. A bad man who believes in a creed is no more religious than the good man who does not."
The "Duty to God" slogan was regarded liberally, and Scouting movements in several countries dispensed with it, notably Denmark in 1910. However, the Boy Scouts of America, fresh from the achievement of its federal monopoly, adopted a constitution in 1916 whose article III specified, "The Boy Scouts of America maintains that no boy can grow into the best kind of citizen without recognizing his obligation to God." The scout laws — simple slogans memorized by the boys — are different in each country. In the United States, a twelfth Scout Law was added, "A Scout Is Reverent." There is no such law in British scouting, organized according to the wishes of Baden-Powell.
All American Scout leaders are required to subscribe to a Declaration of Religious Principles — agreeing to the religious test of the constitution. I have found no evidence that this test was actually applied in the early BSA to exclude individual atheist Scouts, but the BSA claimed in 1935 (perhaps as a boast to religious authorities) that it had excluded "several hundred" adult leaders who failed to acknowledge God.
www.thehumanist.org...
Taxpayer Dollars
Though no level of government directly funds the operating budget of the BSA, member and unit sponsors paid fees that amounted in 1993 to $56.8 million out of a total budget of $115 million. In addition, supply operations garnered $18.4 million, and magazine publications another $3.7 million. Income from these sources would likely be greatly reduced if the BSA were not a federally protected monopoly. You can even be arrested for selling your own "scout souvenirs" without authorization.
The 355 local councils of the Boy Scouts have separate budgets which are more directly dependent on community and corporate donations. Approximately one third of the 1993 aggregate total for local councils came from local United Way organizations. Recently, however, United Way support has been reduced or cut off completely in some areas. The United Way cut funding to the Los Angeles Council of the BSA by 52 percent in 1993.
The BSA maintains statistical data on membership and unit (pack, troop and, post) growth. For years, detailed breakdowns of unit sponsorship were printed in the annual reports filed with Congress.
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Margaret Downey writes in the Fall 2000 issue of Free Inquiry:
By getting itself declared "private," the BSA has defeated the rationale for it to have public support, government gratuities, and a congressional charter. Nor will it be legitimate for BSA to receive money from United Way's unallocated fund, or to go into public schools to recruit, or to be given military and other government gratuities. BSA will have to rely on private donations exclusively. This will work against the troops and the boys.
Prejudiced zealots have seized control of BSA and will destroy all that has been good with their fear and loathing toward the gay and nontheist community. ... Recently BSA ruled that Unitarian Scouts will no longer be eligible to receive religious emblems. Unitarian rules do not fall in line with BSA's selective membership policy. Unitarians are too tolerant and too sympathetic toward gays, girls, and the godless.
atheism.about.com...
Originally posted by Keeper of Kheb
good for the boy scouts of america standing up for principles and moral values. God Bless them!
discrimination
Use Discrimination in a sentence Origin
dis·crim·i·na·tion
[dih-skrim-uh-ney-shuhn] Show IPA
noun
1.
an act or instance of discriminating.
2.
treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit: racial and religious intolerance and discrimination.
3.
the power of making fine distinctions; discriminating judgment: She chose the colors with great discrimination.
4.
Archaic . something that serves to differentiate.