The Boy Scouts of America in considering lifting a total ban
on gay membership over the last few months, has now moved to allow gay members
but not gay adult leaders. The ultimate
decision will be made in May in a nationwide vote. If the
resolution is approved in the nationwide vote, "no youth may be denied
membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or
preference alone."
COMMENTS:
The fact that adult gay leaders will still not be allowed is
mere semantics; you are either a gay organization or you are not. It would only be a matter of time, a year or
two, before the move would be made to allow gay adult leaders; how can you deny
a gay scout, having earned badges and recognition, a right to participate as a
leader when he becomes an adult? That
suggestion is absurd. The main impetus
for allowing gays into the organization is financial; many businesses and other
donors have said they will refuse to donate to or support the organization in
the future unless gays are allowed. This
concerted effort by the radical left to destroy another American institution
frankly pisses me off, and that is exactly what this whole controversy is about. If the Boy Scout organization caves in to
this tactic in any way, I will pack up my awards and unceremoniously return
them to Boy Scout headquarters and I will be severely disillusioned. Furthermore, I will not vote for any of the
current Board of Directors for another term and I will relinquish my
membership. That says a whole lot, as my
ancestors actively participated in the founding of the organization.
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. What do you have to say about the ending of the Boston
Marathon bombing? (Linh ~ Monterey Park,
CA)
A. It has not ended.
We have to determine where these guys got their indoctrination and what
the implications are for future national security. But, let me add a warning: just because your neighbor looks nice doesn’t
mean he is.
Q. I can’t believe my ears.
I hear a foreign government asked our F.B.I. to look into the activities
of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Boston bombers, and the F.B.I. determined that
he was no threat? (Margo ~ Great Falls,
MT)
A. That’s correct. Tamerlan
dropped out after studying accounting at Bunker Hill Community College for just
three semesters. He was an amateur boxer who had hoped to fight on the U.S.
Olympic team. “I don’t have a single
American friend. I don’t understand them,” he was quoted as saying in a Boston
University student magazine in 2010.
Just because the F.B.I. has an excellent reputation for getting things
right doesn’t mean they don’t make mistakes; we’re all human, you know.
Q. Given a situation like the Boston Marathon bombers, if
they were captured alive, should they be held as enemy combatants and tried in
a military court or tried in a U.S. criminal court? (Bonzo ~ El Cajon, CA)
A. It depends on citizenship. Being U.S. citizens, they
should be tried in the criminal justice system.
Otherwise, they should be shipped off to Guantanamo and tried in the
military system. That’s my opinion based
on current International Law and war tribunal decisions. I believe Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a U.S.
citizen.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by
instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint
situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.” ~ John Bruton
TODAY’S VIDEO:
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