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If the Boy Scouts are legitimate with the possibility of doing away with its anti-gay policy, then I applaud the organization.
But in my personal opinion, if the group decides to do away with the policy, I would be very surprised.
Plainly speaking, the idea that the Boy Scouts may be doing away with this policy has created, in polite terms, an orgy of homophobia from religious right groups.
The Boy Scouts have been hit with a wave of vulgar comments and disturbing visual images of “predatory gays” taking advantage of children.
If there were prizes given out for most consistent tone of homophobia, Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association would win the majority of them. His usual tone of bigotry has been replaced by a manic-like John The Baptist screech of doom of what would happen to children should gays be allowed to participate in the Boy Scouts:
Believe it or not, however, Fischer doesn’t even come close to winning the top prize of homophobia on display.
That award goes to his AFA colleague Buster Wilson who yesterday went on a tangent worthy of Dostyevsky to paint a nauseatingly detailed scenario of children at the mercy of so-called evil gay Scoutmasters:
Imagine with me a troop of young boys, ranging in ages from 12-16. These young boys are going to be out in the woods, away from their parents. Not just away from their parents but away from any contact with their parents. Back in my day, there were no cell phones. And today, most camps sites are out cell range.
They would be out in the woods for 2-4 days, nights, depending on what time of the year it was. They will sleep in pairs or threes, in sleeping bags, in tents or out in the open. They will shower and wash in the creeks or lakes that outline their camp site. It would be nothing for boys to wonder about with their shirts off, or sometimes just in their underwear or swim suit because they had just been to the latrine or to the swimming hole. These will all be under the direction of the Scout leader who led them there.
Now, you could say that I am setting up a scenario that is just my own. That there are no reports of the kind of activities that my evil mind is conjuring up, that our homosexual friends want nothing more than to lead these young men to maturity and personal growth and I’m evil for believing that such horrible thoughts could actually become reality. But then, I would refer you again, to my friend Bryan Fischer’s latest article where he reminds us all of the Jerry Sandusky story.
Yeah, that’s the same Jerry Sandusky who would have been allowed in the Scouts under its current “no gays allowed” policy because he had a wife, children, and as far as everyone knows, has had no sexual relations with an adult male. He is hardly a gay male.
Regardless of how the Boy Scouts decide, one thing is clear. Whoever said ignorance is bliss is a damn liar.
And it’s downright embarrassing when people not only show pride in their ignorance but puts it on public display.
Editor’s note – if you are so inclined, Contact Wayne Brock, Chief Boy Scouts Executive, at 972-580-2004, 972-580-2000, or by email at Wayne.Brock@Scouting.org
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When Bryan says that ending Don’t Ask Don’t Tell will end enlistment and usher in the draft, he is in direct contradiction to the public statements from the highest ranking military officer in the nation, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, who added that the end of DADT, ” helps create “a force of more character and honor – more in keeping with our own values.”
These guys certainly have some interesting fantasies. I’m sure a psychiatrist would have a field day with Buster Wilson.
Fischer is a liar, even worse than Tony Perkins. He’s deliberately inflammatory, and his audience, who must be the sickest of the sick, eats it up. In my more charitable moments, I just think “Sad, scared little people.”
Where did Dostoyevsky ever write such horseshit?
These people are creepy.
America is the only country that has married scouting to religious nutbaggery. Yeah, many other countries also include some “duty to god” BS in their oaths, but some are moving away from that too. And where it’s still there, religion is never as front and center as it is in US scouting. America is also the only major country that still has gender-segregated groups.
Ah… I’m reminded of the South Park episode where Big Gay Al is removed as the boys’ scoutmaster and replaced with a fine upstanding pedophile.
Uh, I think someone has thought a BIT too much about this…
“They will shower and wash in the creeks or lakes that outline their camp site. It would be nothing for boys to wonder about with their shirts off, or sometimes just in their underwear or swim suit because they had just been to the latrine or to the swimming hole. ”
Ok, so, I was an Eagle Scout, and apparently I missed out. In 10 years (between Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts), trips to Philmont, Ely, Naish, Bartle (including working there multiple summers), I never showered or washed in the creek or a lake. Dishes, sure, myself, not so much. Can’t say that outside of the swimming pool or showers, that there was an epic rush of shirtlessness or running around in underwear.
Well, ok, that time at Bartle, but it was a prank, and in the staff area (we weren’t ALWAYS smoking things, listening to Pink Floyd, and playing Nintendo).