Link to original article. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/opinion/scoutings-gay-founder.html?_r=1&ref=opinion)

"WITH more and more American institutions becoming inclusive and even openly gay-friendly, the Boy Scouts of America has just reaffirmed its unregenerate straights-only status: a special committee, formed in 2010, recently announced the organization’s intention of sticking with the 2000 Supreme Court decision that it is within its constitutional rights to exclude gays from leadership roles.

All this is richly ironic in view of the fact that the founder of the Boy Scouts, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (raised to the peerage as Lord Baden-Powell) was in probability a gay man himself — though closeted, of course, considering the circumstances.

A Victorian military hero who skyrocketed to fame after his valiant defense of the besieged city of Mafeking during the Second Boer War, Baden-Powell was one of the British Empire’s most adulated soldiers, looked to as the very model of muscular Christianity. Baden-Powell, the author of the hugely popular and influential “Scouting for Boys” (1908), inspired a national cult of manliness even as he entertained serious worry about his own sexuality."

:killingme:killingme:killingme:killingme

All this is richly ironic in view of the fact that the founder of the Boy Scouts, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (raised to the peerage as Lord Baden-Powell) was in probability a gay man himself — though closeted, of course, considering the circumstances.



nice accusation ....... no way to prove or disprove


Oh it's OK to allow gheys in scouting ...... the founder was Ghey


and gay site is blasting this out across the web

A scout must create a Powerpoint presentation on the shorter life span, carrier diseases, and psychological problems associated with queer behavior.

A special pin is added if they cite the tremendous cost to the nation's health care and the burdensome adjustments society has attempted in the past 20 years.

Last, they must make a fire in under 45 seconds from the d#@M aids quilt.

Maybe he wasn't gay and was really a pedophile. Why else would a grown man start an organization to be around young boys? :sarcasm:

Link to original article. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/opinion/scoutings-gay-founder.html?_r=1&ref=opinion)

"WITH more and more American institutions becoming inclusive and even openly gay-friendly, the Boy Scouts of America has just reaffirmed its unDEgenerate straights-only status: a special committee, formed in 2010, recently announced the organization’s intention of sticking with the 2000 Supreme Court decision that it is within its constitutional rights to exclude gays from leadership roles.

All this is richly ironic in view of the fact that the founder of the Boy Scouts, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (raised to the peerage as Lord Baden-Powell) was in probability a gay man himself — though closeted, of course, considering the circumstances.

A Victorian military hero who skyrocketed to fame after his valiant defense of the besieged city of Mafeking during the Second Boer War, Baden-Powell was one of the British Empire’s most adulated soldiers, looked to as the very model of muscular Christianity. Baden-Powell, the author of the hugely popular and influential “Scouting for Boys” (1908), inspired a national cult of manliness even as he entertained serious worry about his own sexuality."

Fixed

Not sure why teh boy is even concerned about this issue; he's too old to join BSA now so his gheyness does not matter.:coffee:

Not sure why teh boy is even concerned about this issue; he's too old to join BSA now so his gheyness does not matter.:coffee:

They won't let him be a scout master

Maybe he wasn't gay and was really a pedophile. Why else would a grown man start an organization to be around young boys? :sarcasm:


Maybe to coach at Penn State.:sarcasm:

All this is richly ironic in view of the fact that the founder of the Boy Scouts, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (raised to the peerage as Lord Baden-Powell) was in probability a gay man himself — though closeted, of course, considering the circumstances.


This is exactly why the scouts don't want queers around the boys. The might turn out to be whiny little bytches like nhboy and the author of this homosexual fantasy