The congressman said he would do anything he could “to protect the Boy Scouts from this popular culture, this liberal agenda that is being crammed down their throat,” arguing that “the Boy Scouts are actually being bullied worse than any group or organization that has ever been bullied before.”
“They are being harassed and at the end of the day they are also being ridiculed by some in the liberal media,” he added. Palazzo asked if America cannot tell the Boy Scouts to “stand strong” and preserve its ban on gay members, “then what do we stand for as a country?”
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IF the Boy Scouts are being bullied, as Palazzo claims, then they are being bullied from within. The push for changing the Boy Scouts' policy on gays came from within the organization, from current and former scout leaders and scouts. Damn those liberal Boy Scouts pushing to change their own policies.
Luka Magnotta was never in the Boy Scouts [to the best of my knowledge] but he is a metrosexual.
Anon-e-moose, how about a photo of David Beckham to show how hip you are.
Is Gosnell the world's most liberal media under-reported news item?
then what do we stand for as a country?
Dunno, maybe liberty, equality and justice for all ?
I don't live in America so I can't really tell if the Boy Scouts get THAT much attention
But they certainly deserve to get looked down upon for still thinking that "THE GAYZ ARE TEH EVUL TEHY ARE PEDOPHILES DON'T LET TEM NEAR DEM KIDZ" even when the rest of the country (and of the western world) is pushing for gay rights
They are not being harrased. They are just divided over the backlash they have received for not admitting members who have, in essence, done nothing wrong. Same as with blacks and segregation, for example. Some of them want to maintain the ban, out of many reasons that I personally disagree but, anyway, it's their club they set the rules and others who want to lift it, among another reasons, not to chase away potential members, I guess. So, stop whining.
“the Boy Scouts are actually being bullied worse than any group or organization that has ever been bullied before.”
Is that really a claim you want to make in a discussion involving homosexuality? Seriously, think these things through just a bit.
Palazzo asked if America cannot tell the Boy Scouts to “stand strong” and preserve its ban on gay members, “then what do we stand for as a country?”
Er, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
"What do we stand for as a country?"
A country that is all for equality, freedom, liberty and quality of life for all people, not just straight people?
Fuck off you homophobic dick.
Yeah, the stupid majority, don't they know their place is under the minority? That's what a democracy is all about, right?
Palazzo asked if America the lunatic right-wing minority cannot tell the Boy Scouts to "stand strong" and preserve its ban on gay members, "then what do we stand for as a country?"
There. Fixed. Except that they can tell the Boy Scouts to "stand strong" - it's right in the First Amendment. Same as the right of the rest of us to call you a homophobic bigot. Welcome to America, Adolph - I mean - Steve.
“the Boy Scouts are actually being bullied worse than any group or organization that has ever been bullied before.”
Their membership has been dwindling for years. Many of their company sponsors are pulling out because supporting bigoted organizations is bad PR. Many of their supporters who provided free accommodations for their meetings are shutting their doors because they disapprove of bigoted organizations.
Society is moving on. The BSA can either keep up or die gracefully.
I've noticed the repetition of the phrase "crammed down their throat" in homophobic rants. Is it deliberate or unconscious I wonder?
Nothing worse than the bully who, when you try to stop him bullying, cries "stop bullying me!" That won't do at all, young man.
Boy scouts being ridiculed? Heaven forbid!! What can there possibly be to ridicule in a 1900-era paramilitary organisation for boys hanging out in the woods in shorts and rubbing sticks together for fire?
farpadokly,
get a life, everything is Freudian, when everything is sex. He couldn't be wrong because everything was evidence of his theory. Nothing to refute. Dahhhhh.
Your car got a flat tyre. Its sex. Your toast burnt while you were shaving. Its sex. Your dog got run over by a car. Its sex.
See. Freud. I'm talking about sex therefor Freud is right. Only He isn't. He's wrong.
Not being allowed to harrass and bully people is not to be harrassed and bullied, asshole!
What do you stand for as a country? You'd stand for equality, tolerance, respect, civil rights. Teh HORROR!!!
Bottom line [not Freudian],
So these comments "screw the scouts, asshole, so what if they're being ridiculed? They deserve to be,....., pull our heads out of our asses and get with the rest of society,.... Cry me a river, bitch!"
It doesn't just prove the point the poster is making; it nails the lid shut on an air tight casing.
Well done 'liberals'.
[at Hasan below, I haven't read Mein Kampf either Hasan. I haven't read David Koresh. I haven't read Maharaji, I haven't read Rajneesh. I look at their followers sometimes, see how they are using their words and that is enough.]
If you think Freud is science I'll humor you.
@P-G
He couldn't be wrong because everything was evidence of his theory. Nothing to refute. Dahhhhh.
Which convinces me you've never actually read any Freud. Or have a clue how science works.
As you were.
The Boy Scouts are being bullied worse than any group has ever been bullied before, eh?
You do realize that the other side in this argument is the gays, who have had far more bullying thrown at them over the years than you can possibly fathom, right?
Next time, do a little research before making a blatantly stupid statement. It might save you some embarrassment.
Uh...
Well, let me see... no the Boy Scouts can definitely exclude gay people if they so choose... at least if they are a private organization.
But everyone else is perfectly able to call them on it and not fund them or send their kids to them. So ridicule away, they don't have a right to be not offended.
“the Boy Scouts are actually being bullied worse than any group or organization that has ever been bullied before.”
Seriously. You really think people calling them out on the mentality that excluding people based on their sexual orientation even qualifies as top ten? When scouts have to deal with raids and police brutality, then we'll talk, pumpkin.
There there, Representative Palazzo. Don't worry.
Even if the Boy Scouts do allow their members to be gay, you can still get to sleep at night, content in the knowledge that the Boy Scouts still forbid atheists.
oh boohoohoo, you don't get to deny membership to people who have never done a thing to you.
excuse me while i laugh in your face over your whiny bullshit.
Karana, you can form any club you want. Right of association is one of the most basic there is.
Because Gays aren't gay/ happy/ or at peace. See above and below comments.
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