Bryan Fischer: Teh Gheys Can't Be Scouts Because Scout Oath Says No Weaklings
Sorry, Homosexual America, but Bryan Fischer is thinking about You People again. By golly, it's almost as if Bryan Fischer can't think of many things other than gay people.
This time, the mouthpiece for the American Patriarchy Association is having kittens over the possibility that the Boy Scouts of America may vote to allow sodomites to be Scouts.Never mind that the BSA already does and always has, of course; we're talking about the really dangerous kind of sodomites, the ones who don't quietly pretend to be straight, you know. We don't have any particular fondness for this little paramilitary organization, which we dropped out of after being unable to say"Webelows""Webelos" without breaking into fits of snickering, but if gay kids want to be Scouts, we say go for it.
The prospect that the BSA might stop all the discrimination leads Bryan Fissure to the obvious conclusion, which is that faggots will suddenly have a license to be all faggotty with little boys (we have not read the BSA proposal, but we are pretty certain that it will not allow Scouts to gaysex other Scouts). Thankfully for posterity, Twitter enabled him to spew a veritable torrent of thought-like follow-ups this morning, which we've screenshotted and arranged in order below:
So there you have it! There is NO WAY that homosexxers or their allies can possibly be good Scouts, despite the existence of such a thing as the Gay Eagle Scout Association or a campaign by Eagle Scouts to return their badges to the BSA until it reverses its discriminatory policies ( 229 Eagle Scouts have renounced their Eagle badges so far).
But let's get back to Mr. Fischer's notion that "Homosexuals violate BSA oath to be 'physically strong,'" because AIDS.
We would like to take this opportunity to challenge Bryan Fischer to arm-wrestle a gay Wonkette reader. Who knows, if we get enough volunteers, maybe we'll select a champion by adding a Big Gay Arm-Wrasslin' Tournament to this summer's Wonk Your Brains Out Tour of Orgies and Drunkenness. Let's see if Bryan Fischer is willing to put his biceps where his mouth is.
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My 1960s Scouting experience was in urban Detroit (my hometown), and later, in urban Grand Rapids. GR back then was still a pretty righteous, God-fearing, Bible-thumping place (although that was changing by the late 60s), but surprisingly, preaching was largely confined to churches (imagine that) and it didn't extend to things like Scouting. At least, not where I was, and I was in a pretty conservative part of town.
I did encounter a few fundies in Scouts in GR, but only a few. Most of my fellow Scouts steered clear of them. I felt sorry for one guy who wasn't very popular, so I befriended him. He was mostly OK, just a regular kid, but then I had the misfortune of meeting his father, who denounced me as a sinner who God would surely punish. (Because he overheard me mentioning that I favored some liberal notions, like racial tolerance and wishing for an end to de facto segregation in housing.) But that was an isolated experience, an outlier.
Interesting. Now that I think about it, my sons' scout leader was a Mormon. (this is in Canada) I hated being a Scouting mom. My sons didn't give a shit about badges (Yes, they could easily have said, "We don't need no steeenkin badges"), and I always seemed to miss investiture night, which wasn't a huge deal for me or my sons, but made me look like a bad mom. I was SO relieved when they decided to quit. (and they only got involved in the first place because THEY insisted)