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[Rick Rowlands]

Neither.  I cannot be for liberty and freedom and try to limit the liberties and freedoms of fellow Americans based on their sexual preferences.  I am a fiscal conservative and a social liberal.

[irishbobcat]

Why? Town...thank you for your simple, direct explanation regarding the BSA position. That's all I wanted.
Rick, stop the presses, we actually agree on something...are you becoming liberal or am I becoming conservative?

[Why?Town]

BSA is an organization that promotes high moral standards. They do not believe homosexuality aligns with those standards.

[Rick Rowlands]

At what point during scouting does being gay enter into it?  it is not as if you wear a badge saying that you are gay, and as far as I know scouting isn't a dating service.  Scouting isn't even the place to demonstrate boy/girl romance.  This whole gay issue is a bunch of BS.  They are people too, and just because they happen to have a genetic or psychological difference in them that makes them more feminine, that is no reason to treat them as second class citizens. 

[sfc_oliver]

Will someone tell me what part of "not expanding on that" is so hard to understand?

[Why?Town]

Sarge, so why can't a person be a scout master if they can use a pocket knife, have the required competencies to instruct scouts in
all the badge-earning activities, and be gay?

You are still excluding most gay men.

[irishbobcat]

Sarge, so why can't a person be a scout master if they can use a pocket knife, have the required competencies to instruct scouts in
all the badge-earning activities, and be gay?

[iwasthere]

we all have something to give back to the world.

[sfc_oliver]

sarge are you saying that your stepson cannot walk talk and chew all at onetime.

He is fantastic as an Elvis impersonator. Put a mic in his hand and give him an audience and he'll do great.

Hand him a pocket knife and he would hurt himself trying to open it....

And he would probably put himself in the hospital if you gave him a saw or axe...

[iwasthere]

sarge are you saying that your stepson cannot walk talk and chew all at onetime.

[sfc_oliver]

sarge would you ban your gay stepson from being a scout or a leader?

Most definitely. But for many other reasons than being Gay.... A Cub scout would show him up on most things that a scout would be doing...... In fact him as a Scout leader could make for a great comedy show...

[iwasthere]

sarge would you ban your gay stepson from being a scout or a leader?

[irishbobcat]

No Sarge, please do expand on it......why? Are you worried a gay scout leader automatically is a pediphile?

Please list ALL the levels.....why?   I'm curious....

[sfc_oliver]

That is just so wrong on so many levels......... And no I will not expand on it.

[Towntalk]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/us/boy-scouts-consider-lifting-ban-on-gay-leaders.html?_r=0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/boy-scouts-considering-retreat-from-no-gays-policy-unit-sponsors-could-set-membership-rules/2013/01/28/391249e6-697d-11e2-9a0b-db931670f35d_story.html