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Would liberals support this?

Apparently there is growing liberal support for requiring the Boy Scouts to admit gays and to even allow gays to serve as Scout Leaders. Liberals claim this would promote "diversity" and "inclusion" - two of their favorite words to justify anything.

I wonder if there would be equal support to require the Congressional Black Caucus to admit Michelle Bachman, Paul Ryan, John McCain, Rand Paul, etc? This would certainly support diversity and be very inclusive.

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  • 8 years ago
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    I don't understand what liberals aren't seeing here. The Boy Scouts are a private organization and the government has no place to decide who they admit to their group.

  • justa
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    For that to be a real comparison you'd have to have the Boy Scouts wanting to admit girls.

    And that's not on the table, there are troops that are very comfortable with allowing in gay males, and its not for diversity its for equality. After all, a young gay male is still a young male, and they don't discuss sex, or sexual orientation, they discuss knots and camping.

    Now, if the Black Caucus found out that Bachman, Ryan and McCain and Paul had black blood relatives, making them part black, and they wanted to join that would be a comparison, whites joining a black organization would be like girls joining a boys organization.

  • Jay
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Sure, I have no problem with non-blacks being part of the black caucus, if they felt that their inclusion was useful.

    Please understand that this isn't about diversity, so much as it's about having boys that can benefit from the scout experience and people devoted to leadership. Why exclude someone just because of who they are attracted to? That's like saying that any man that's married to a blond woman isn't allowed to be a scout leader. Or a boy who's dating a math geek can't be part of scouts. Makes no sense.

    Please also understand that your argument about the black caucus suggests that the purpose of scouting is specifically to exclude gays. The black caucus exists and, yes, is an exclusionary group, to discuss issues facing that group. There are a number of sub-groups in Congress, official and non-official, that bring together people with similarities. Are you suggesting that the National Republican Club admit Democrats?

    So, while you make a good point, I see that you really don't have a full grasp on this issues related to both topics. Perhaps before you speak, you need to actually learn facts and then not color them (no pun intended) to fit your own agenda.

  • Arnie
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Liberals do not know which way is up..

    They seem to have abandoned logic and reason

    They are Advocates of a policy that empowers a strong federal government to enslave its people with the high tax burden incident to the support of extravagant and unnecessary social programs destructive to both the work ethic among the lower class, and the incentive to innovate and succeed among the working people .

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  • 8 years ago

    While a similar concept, it is not really the same.

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