The Mugabe Regime may well be the most corrupt presidential administration in US history.

He decries what liberals have done to society, but he endorses and supports liberalism and antireligious bigotry, such as his fellow LGBT bigots screaming and attacking corporations for funding the BSA.

Perhaps if he recognized that the BSA does a tremendous amount of good, especially when compared to the promiscuous bigoted liberals who are attacking it, he might see the problem with his pronouncements.

The simple fact is this: the BSA is allowing bigots like Dan Savage and Joe Jervis who see children as sexual objects to set their morals and values.

And corporations are stupid enough to allow bigots like Dan Savage and Joe Jervis who see children as sexual objects to dictate their giving.

In those days DuPont Chemical, Hercules and the other Wilmington-based corporations covered most of the operating expenses of the entire Council and their summer camps gratis. The DuPont family also contributed both facilities and substantial cash. Now all that support is gone.

Comment by Ted B. (Charging Rhino) — May 24, 2013 @ 12:42 pm – May 24, 2013

And Wilmington is clearly the better for it.

There’s your lesson: LGBT bigots and pandering to them do nothing to improve a community and quite a bit to destroy it.

That is because LGBT bigots have no interest in WHY the Scouts exist; they just want to destroy them and their values.

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Finally – Smegmasnatch got something right! Miracles never cease.

Have a nice weekend.

That’s Memorial Day Weekend to you, buster. Show some respect to our fallen heroes.

Oh, wait – libtards never do. Silly me.

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I have to admit, it’s kinda nice living in Vince’s head, rent free.

Got to admit, there’s a lot of space up there to stretch out!

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It was only in the late 80s and the 90s that it became an issue as the Fundamentalists and Evangelicals took control….all to the detriment of the program and the Movement.

Cause and effect might be bolstered by some facts.

As I read this, (1.) the BSA was taken over by the Fundamentalists and Evangelicals in the Bush 41 and Clinton years.

(2.) The takeover of the BSA was detrimental to the BSA program and the Movement.

(3.) The Fundamentalists and Evangelicals made homosexuality a major issue of the BSA.

Now, while this Fundamentalist and Evangelical drive to make homosexuality in the BSA program and Movement was occurring, was there any increase in the homosexual world to confront Fundamentalists and Evangelicals in general? That is to say, was there a heightened gay voice or response to the Fundamentalist and Evangelicals during this period that was not associated with the BSA?

My curiosity is piqued. Since Fundamentalists and Evangelicals are being fingered as the “cause” of the decline of the BSA program and Movement, it there any concomitant activity on the part of militant (fundamentalist) and activist (evangelical) gays in promoting their program and Movement to snare all sorts of people in the trap of homophobia, including the BSA?

So far, this alleged take-over of the BSA does not present enough fact to be accepted as a thesis statement to explain how the gay issue resulted in the decline of the BSA.

I have heard elsewhere that activists, with activist gays among them, stuck their fingers in the BSA and made charges that the BSA should not receive federal funds and tax exemptions because of their emphasis on religion, being morally straight and other parts of their oath and belief system that irritated atheists, gays and professional malcontents.

I don’t make that a direct cause and effect statement. I merely pose the issue as another point of view.

And not just regarding journalism. The Left has strongly approved of Obama ignoring Constitutional limits on his power. Only when liberal journalists find themselves in the crosshairs does the tune change. Funny, that.

Don’t worry, mike; again, we know you won’t answer. You aren’t mentally or morally capable of admitting that your Barack Obama, your Barack Obama Party, and your unionized Federal workforce that overwhelmingly discriminates against and harasses conservatives did anything wrong.

The USA needs a strong 4th estate to keep the sunlight on government actions. Hopefully congress can pass a shield law to give protections to journalists and ensure they can continue to dig into the government actions.

Comment by mike — May 24, 2013 @ 12:51 am – May 24, 2013

Because, of course, a “shield law” will be observed by Barack Obama, when none of the other EXISTING laws to this effect were.

Don’t worry, mike, we know you won’t reply. Like V the K put it, you’re Mugabe’s bootlicker, mentally and morally incapable of holding your Obama to the same standards you demand of others.

Sit back and watch the numbers of those involved in the Boy Scouts to decline dramatically over the coming years.

More likely the reverse.

The “no gays allowed” rule has been a major reason behind the already dramatic decline in membership in the BSA as many Mainline Protestant Churches and public schools closed-down the Scout troops in protest or refuse to be complicit. And the BSA lost billions in donations of cash and in-kind corporate donations due to their newly-exclusionary practices over the last 20-years. Most of corporate America—especially publically traded corporations— will not touch the BSA any more. By comparison, when I was in the BSA in the 60s and 70s, we did a lot of activities with the Delaware Delmarva Council through my father’s business connections even though we were in NJ. In those days DuPont Chemical, Hercules and the other Wilmington-based corporations covered most of the operating expenses of the entire Council and their summer camps gratis. The DuPont family also contributed both facilities and substantial cash. Now all that support is gone. Now the individual Scouts’ families have to pay hugely-increased fees to attend camp.

Here in my own town, all three Protestant churches closed-down their troops a decade ago, and only the RC Church’s troop struggles for members.

By politicizing the BSA, they have transformed it into an “exclusionary organization” that is no longer welcome or tolerated in places that were it’s traditional homes…and alienated many of it’s traditional supporters. Now a business-owner thinks twice before openly giving support or money to the BSA for fear of offending someone.

When I was in Scouting the reverse was true, to NOT SUPPORT the Boy Scouts was seen as unpatriotic, un-American and suspect.

I believe the numbers are that current BSA membership is 1/10th that of when I was active in the 1960s and 1970s.

As a Cub Scout up through Boy Scouts to Asst Scoutmaster while in college, and as someone’s who’s family was involved in Scouting for over 50 continuous-years from the 1930s through the 80s, it’s shameful what the “novel” introduction of institutional homophobia has done to a once proud and useful organization. It has no place in traditional Scouting and I’m glad to see it at-least partially repealed.

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