Monday, November 1, 2010

"Give to the Boy Scouts, if you want to give money."

Hear, hear. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Boy Scouts except that a few hotheads want to accuse them of discriminating against gays.

The troop I volunteered for met across the street from Beverly Hills. The scoutmaster lived in West Hollywood. For our annual popcorn sales fundraiser, we set up a table out in front of the Pavilions in West Hollywood (God bless the manager). We must have had a couple of hundred gay men file past us those two weekends. Most of them stopped and at the very least dropped a dollar into our money can, though no one pressured anyone to do so. Many stopped to chat, many more actually said, "Oh, the boy scouts! I was a boy scout too. How much is the popcorn?"

Not one of them stopped to argue with us for being so evil as not to accept single, childless men as adult volunteers.

Well, that was the official policy. It comports with LDS doctrine, which demands of all adult men that they set the example for the next generation, marry, father children, and lead useful and productive lives. If you don't know anything about the LDS church, I suggest you learn something, else you'll spend the rest of your life saying idiotic things about LDS doctrine, such as "they wear magic underwear"--which only makes the speaker look like a moron and does nothing to detract from the Mormon Church as a religion that millions of decent, educated, respectable people subscribe to. No, I'm not LDS, but I wouldn't be ashamed to be one.

The only problem we had was the occasional liberal feminist that would stop at our table, her face beet red, and scream at us for five minutes about discrimination. I would bet you a thousand dollars that those same women themselves discriminate just as harshly, by (for example) demanding that funding be taken away from the students' union that allowed (never mind paid for) a conservative to speak at the alma mater, or by demonstrating fiercely and noisily outside an auditorium where a republican dared to appear, by demanding that the conservative-authored book in the window at B&N be put in the back room, or by demanding that her party boycott the debate on FOX News. These lefties are the most narrow-minded creatures on the planet.

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