U.S. Boy Scouts set to end ban on gay members

[Caliga]

Dude, right now the BSA are waiting to see what the LDS will do regarding allowing gays into their cabal. While the Mormons may not run the BSA, they most definitely drive policy, which means that they, effectively, "run" the BSA.

Well I think my analogy re: the NRA and the GOP was a good one, so let me ask you this:  do you think that the NRA runs the Republican Party?  If so then while I don't agree with you in either the case of the GOP or the BSA, I can understand your point of view, and probably we're saying almost the same thing except I guess I am more of a literalist than you are.

[merithyn]

Well I think my analogy re: the NRA and the GOP was a good one, so let me ask you this:  do you think that the NRA runs the Republican Party?  If so then while I don't agree with you in either the case of the GOP or the BSA, I can understand your point of view, and probably we're saying almost the same thing except I guess I am more of a literalist than you are.

Yes, I do, and yes, I think we are, and yes, I agree.

[Caliga]

Ban lifted

Adult gays are still banned though.

[Martinus]

Ban lifted

Adult gays are still banned though.

That's even more offensive, imo.

Previously, the ban could have been justified on "moral"/religious grounds. Now, they are effectively saying that adult gay people are pedophiles.

[Caliga]

They want to keep Mart away from impressionable youth.  You might turn them gay.

[CountDeMoney]

She was so whacked out from the fall and injury, and grateful to the scouts, that when they got there, she kept trying to show the kids her nasty injury and how the scoutmaster had fixed it, cause she thought it would be a good "learning experience" for them, but the scoutmaster was desperately trying to keep from scaring these little boys with her dangling hand and bone sticking out of the skin. 

That's an awesome story.

[Neil]

Ban lifted

Adult gays are still banned though.

That's even more offensive, imo.

Previously, the ban could have been justified on "moral"/religious grounds. Now, they are effectively saying that adult gay people are pedophiles.

Have you ever known a gay that wasn't a pedophile?

[Eddie Teach]

Garbon?

[Neil]

Garbon?

Probably a pedophile.

[Valmy]

So gays are already allowed into the army and boyscouts? What's next? The KKK and neonazis?

It's laughable how we want to be a part of those patriarchal (para)military circle-jerks.

What exactly about being gay means you do not like patriarchal (para)military circle-jerks?

[Valmy]

That's even more offensive, imo.

Previously, the ban could have been justified on "moral"/religious grounds. Now, they are effectively saying that adult gay people are pedophiles.

It's a compromise...which of course are usually offensive to everybody.

[Valmy]

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Woah even we have one...right above the Zoroastrian scouts.

[Eddie Teach]

Garbon?

Probably a pedophile.

I thought he went for older dudes.

[katmai]

Ban lifted

Adult gays are still banned though.

Don't worry, one day you'll be allowed in.

[Malthus]

Ban lifted

Adult gays are still banned though.

Don't worry, one day you'll be allowed in.

They will never admit people who work in HR.