Comments on: Obama opposes Boy Scouts ban on gays

By: President Obama urges Boy Scouts to admit gays | Insurance For Less

President Obama urges Boy Scouts to admit gays | Insurance For Less — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 03:18:58 +0000

[...] after the organization did so, the White House told the Washington Blade that Obama opposed the [...]

By: Joanna Doe

Joanna Doe — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:06:16 +0000

I disagree with the president. I think BSA should continue to not allow gay people into it.But saying that this is discrimination is true. They’re discriminating against the BSA for their values. You should respect them for actually holding onto Biblical morals, not tear them down and force them to change. You can not parade around saying that you are intolerant if you don’t support gay rights, because you yourself are being intolerant to those who have values. This ticks me off so much. The BSA is right, get off their back. Tear me down all you want for this, these are my values, and I’m not changing them.

By: Matt Harrell

Matt Harrell — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:42:16 +0000

While the Boy Scouts is a great organization outside of this issue, the fact that they are teaching discrimination to children is as anti-American as you can get. Either their blatant discrimination needs to end, or they need to be banned from all public facilities and funding. Refuse to allow them to receive public money and bar them from using schools nationwide for their meetings and see how fast they change their minds!

By: Sara’s News, 8/15/12: Mitt Romney’s VP pick Paul Ryan just as antigay as he is | Bent Alaska

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:19:51 +0000

[...] Obama today joined Romney in publicly disagreeing with a controversial ban on gay members of the Boy Scouts of America, one of the nation’s largest and most well-known youth development groups. [...]

By: chris

chris — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:43:02 +0000

Interesting John that you are on a gay news site. In response to your post, it isn’t about promoting being gay, rather allowing perfectly qualified people to bring values to children. I am not from the USA, I’m from the UK and we have a policy of allowing gay people to be leaders. I seriously doubt we are corrupting them in anyway. But having met some American Mormons at the WSJ, I found them to very bigoted. Also BSA isn’t an exclusively Christian Organisation, and Scouting has never been so, cast your mind back to end of WW1, and Baden Powell called for peace regardless of religion or race. I’m pretty sure he would spin in his grave to know how the BSA have isolated people from a fantastic movement.

My Grandad is 83, and seriously shares my views on this, time for America to wake up…

By: john pepper

john pepper — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:43:11 +0000

i am 76 years old. i was it the boy scouts and was proud of it. it was part of the church and their belief. the boy scout tought me god. and his comanments. and to do good things.. to me man sleeping with man @ woman sleeping with woman is a sin, i do not want my kids or grand kids to be exposed to this kind of thinking, . where do you get your children from..to the scouts of america hold your ground. keep it a christian organiation. to those that want diferent. start your own scouts or what ever you want to call it. we will leave you and your belief alone.. so dont try to change our belief . and leave the boy scouts of america alone . mr president thanks a lot you lost my vote. to the christon people think of what this means. pepper god help us.

By: ceanf

ceanf — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:48:58 +0000

if the president truly supports gays, then why does he remain as the honorary head of the boy scouts? why did he not resign? actions speak louder than words stacy.

yet you give dear leader accolades for it…. interesting.

By: ceanf

ceanf — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:45:41 +0000

thank you mr president? really? really?!?

our brave president denounces the boy scout’s ban on gays, yet he retains his honorary title as head of the organization. so he denounces the position of an organization he is the honorary head of, remains in the position, and you thank him for it?

guess what John? 10 year old boys who disagreed with the boy scouts ban were ‘braver’ than dear leader. they QUIT.

oh, and one last tid bit for you…. Romney opposed the boy scouts ban on gays long before dear leader.

By: Bob Hill

Bob Hill — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 04:00:13 +0000

I used to always respect the US President. But with what “Mr. Oboma” has said and done, I cannot respect him. Like someone else said, Oboma already has his own gay organization (his party). He needs to stop trying to be God and do his job.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:57:57 +0000

It’s nice to see such a show of support for the BSA and American values int the Blade.