Another one bites the dust......BSA & Gays

...and the progressive onslaught continues.....

As a former leader & father of two scouts, we had all but given up on scouting, due to the liberal influences at our local level.

We had just attended a troop meeting last week, in attempts to re-invigorate ourselves about scouting....Well, this was the straw that broke the camels' back, so-to-speak.

To somewhat quote a friends' comment; The Boy Scouts of America now, officially joins the ranks of those homogenized organizations, whose principles can be compromised, in the name of 'PC', which uiltimately has to do with #'s & $.

I don't have any problems with gays as long as they don't push it in my face. I don't like straight couples pushing sex in my face either. If they want to get married, more power to them. I suppose they will have the same problems with marraige as straight people. What is it, 50% divorce now? There are no answers!

I was always against it, but I now know many gay families. They, their siblings, inlaws, and their kids all seem well adjusted. None push anything on us, and i don't push anything on them. Matter of fact, we're going to dinner this week with 2 gay couples.

My advice? Live and let live and base your issues with how they behave and interact with you and yours, and others. You might be surprised, as I was, to find out you have the same interests. And keep in mind, NTO every person has the same interests when it's time to go to bed. What seems normal to you there, may be a bit too much for the next 'normal' person.

A little while ago, I was walking my dog at a deserted park when a van pulls in. It was a couple of gay guys and their family. They had 6 or 7 kids of varying races and mental abilities. As I observed them and chatted with one of the fathers, I had the thought that "that's a beautiful thing". But then it hit me. What if that's not what they wanted? What if that was all these two caring individual were allowed to adopt? That doesn't seem fair.

But then on the other hand, I'm tired of the one-sided PR campaign that mainstream press gives us in favor of gay rights/marriage. Along with stories of families like I observed, how about some facts. If you're gay how many times more likely are you to have problems with alchohol, be a domestic violence victim, acquire a STD, be an IV drug user? I recall that in the early days of AIDS, you could extrapolate from the statistics that if you were gay, you were over 40 times more likely to be an IV user than straights. Has that changed? We aren't being informed, even though the silence leads to more gay deaths.

Until I feel we are getting honest facts, I remain on the fence on my stance on the issue.

Why is sexual preference so important? A lot of us really don't care want another does in private...Why must they keep throwing it in our, (and our kids), faces?

Like Twill, said, there were always "those" that everyone knew about, and that was just fine.....In the closet worked just dandy......

As the father of one Cub Scout and a 5 yr. old wanna-be, I am concerned about this. On the one hand, ya have this. On the other, ya have that.

I guess what I am saying is, IDK. Hate & discrimination is wrong. My boys growing up-left handed and listening to Liberace in a tent is not what I want either.

I know that neither child is racist We live in a lily white town, but when we see people of color, there is never a mention or comment from the "fellas".

Even in our lily white town, we all know of one long time resident who is gay. He gets along just fine.

After all of the damage done to society and the world by heterosexuals, perhaps we should be afraid of....US?