A Scout is Brave

THIS JUST IN Boy Scouts of America has decided to officially open it's doors to members of differing sexual orientations

I can't seem to wrap my mind around how this is such a monumental, nay detrimental, decision.

Do you recall this?

Can you see where this is going?

What was so horrifying about an African American person taking classes with a Caucasian person?

Don't Boy Scouts actually have girls at their camps and in some of their troops?  YES THEY DO!

So if you can have girls in your troop, and typically they like boys, what is the major malfunction?

I just will never understand the reason for prejudices especially in this day and age.  How many people do we need to make second class citizens because it offends Religion A.  Don't boil this issue down to anything more than that.

Our government needs to shape up and recognize that enough is enough.  Something really caught me last night while I was watching the West Wing Season 2.  Ainsley Hayes basically said that everybody is protected under the 14th amendment on the basis that we are all citizens under the law.  All citizens under the law.  What a concept.  It really got me thinking because I'm all about Equal Rights and earning a proper wage but what a slap in my face.  Why do we need these types of laws to spell out what we can and can't do based solely on gender?

I return to my regularly scheduled blog.

Whoop, I meant this.

What is so wrong about this?

My boyfriend and his family are avid Boy Scouts.  Well, were avid Boy Scouts.  I found out yesterday that after his father heard about the decision made by the board members, he mailed back his scout uniform along with a letter stating how appalled he was and how if he could he'd have sent back his two sons Eagle Scout awards he would have done that as well; as far as he is concerned now they're worthless.  I think something about tolerance is missing in the Boy Scout curriculum if the general acceptance of all individuals has led some people to such action.

Incredible.  Separate but equal is no longer lawful in America.