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Boy Scouts of America like totally end their ban on gay leaders*
*but allow for church-sponsored troops to do as they wish
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Aside from the obligatory 'Well shucks! Gays can do more shit now! Hooray!' comments, do any of you have any thoughts on the matter? |
People still join the Boy Scouts of America?
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If they hadn't dragged their feet over this, made such a point of allowing gay scouts but not gay leaders, I might be sort of happy now. But they're still a pseudo-religious organization and this move reeks of desperation and trying to have it both ways: pleasing their staunch conservative supporters and trying to stay relevant in the modern world. (It's a kind of microcosm of conservative politics in America in that way.) I'd honestly rather they stayed clearly discriminatory instead of these kind of baby steps measures because then maybe they could go the way of the dinosaurs and maybe something more deserving could take the space they occupy. I mean, when the Girl Scouts made that announcement that they accepted all girls including trans girls as a matter of course that should have sent a really strong message to the Boy Scouts but it fell on deaf ears. |
Can we just all agree what we do in bed should not affect anything outside it? You ability to be a scout leader isn't affected by your sexual preferences, so why should it matter.
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>Homosexuality = Pedophilia
Shouldn't that fallacy have died somewhere in the nineties, mid-2000's at latest? |
While I agree that this took wayyyyy too long, I also think it's a good move nonetheless. Slowly, piece by piece, we as a society are moving forward to an eventual point where it wont be even a little bit weird to be homosexual. It wont be out of the ordinary, no one will ever have to feel different for being gay.
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Congratulations America, you're finally arriving in the 21st Century and we're all so proud of you.
Still a very very long way to go though in terms of how homophobic areas of America are though. |
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