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Title: Teenage Boy Scout Denied Organization's Top Rank Because He's Gay
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NPR
URL Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way ... tions-top-rank-because-hes-gay
Published: Oct 5, 2012
Author: Eyder Peralta
Post Date: 2012-10-05 14:26:59 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 4923
Comments: 11
Ryan Andresen spent 12 years as a Boy Scout. Now that he's 17 and about to graduate from high school, he completed the final requirement to receive the Eagle Scout award, which signifies the highest rank in the organization. Except, according to his mother Karen, when he submitted the paperwork, the scoutmaster for Troop 212 in the San Francisco Bay area told him he could not give him the Eagle Scout honor because he was gay. His mother has started an online petition to protest the decision and it's already gathered 143,877 electronic signatures. "It hurts me so much to watch Ryan suffer for being who he is, because to me, he's perfect," Karen wrote on the petition. "Ryan has worked for nearly 12 years to become an Eagle Scout, and nothing would make him more proud than earning that well-deserved distinction." The Boy Scouts of America sent a statement to several news organizations, including ABCin which they say they didn't inquire about Ryan's sexual orientation. "This scout proactively notified his unit leadership and Eagle Scout counselor that he does not agree to scouting's principle of 'Duty to God' and does not meet scouting's membership standard on sexual orientation," Deron Smith, a spokesman for the organization said in a statement. "Agreeing to do one's 'Duty to God' is a part of the scout Oath and Law and a requirement of achieving the Eagle Scout rank." In an interview with Yahoo! News Ryan said that his scoutmaster knew he was gay. "He had been telling me all along that we'd get by the gay thing," Ryan told Yahoo News. "It was by far the biggest goal of my life. It's totally devastating." ABC News also reports that Ryan said that for most of his life, he has been the victim of bullying. He said he was called names like "Tinkerbell" at summer camp, so for his final Boy Scout project he addressed that issue by making a "tolerance wall." As we've reported, the Boy Scouts have had a long-standing policy that excludes those who are openly gay. In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the organization's right to do that. Earlier this summer, and much to dismay of many gay rights activists, the Boy Scouts reaffirmed their policy of excluding homosexuals.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
And God love them for that! IMAGINE havin the ability to choose who you associate with! And when you have an association for some cause, how wonderful it is, to exclude those from the group, wo who refuse to abide by the group rules! The GALL of Some people, who aren't interested in "diversity!". The little shit knew the rules of the group HE volunteered to be in, and chose to NOT follow the rules. Now he pays the price for his arrogance and stupidity. Punk.
And stupid, he should have joined the GIRL scouts!
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
The little shit knew the rules of the group HE volunteered to be in, and chose to NOT follow the rules. Now he pays the price for his arrogance and stupidity. Your first point is right on my friend. Your second point evokes an additional comment. "He volunteered to be in and chose not to follow the rules." You are correct again. He also, no doubt, had to lie that he was not gay which means he violated the overall rule of scout in the first place---Honesty!
"Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.) Psalm 139:16
Maybe he can drown his sorrows by sucking Obama's dick and swallowing.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
That subject is quite the obsession with you isn't? Hmmmm...makes one wonder about YOU. ;)
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'...
I won't guess about dondero's predilictions. OTOH, your constant fellatiating of o'Bungler is legendary. Now wipe your chin, boy.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. stfu anii gaper.....go find the nearest park bathroom. rules are rules.....not things one fakes out on then tries to come in afterward and bitch about those rules. little bastard wants in thru the out door then it's not anyone's business ...... UNTIL as in this case he makes it "everyones" business. f'ing little fag proselyzer.
------always bet on black------
"He had been telling me all along that we'd get by the gay thing," fine for the little hose sucker wierdo.....maybe he and his scoutmaster can form their own group.....instead of ramming this perversion and lying premise through as somehow honorable. note to ryan------bend over and take it like a boy. no doubt that'd be a repeat performance anyway. plus it looks like you have 143k san francisco androgynous future members to set up your faggot operation with anyway.
------always bet on black------
One thing I'm not is 'black' and from Detroit. I'd need to hope on 94 and travel east for around 60 miles. But go ahead, indulge your fantasy but please come up with something new in the insult category. Stuff is getting stale and I'll bz you if you don't get better.
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'...
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'...
much to dismay of many gay rights activists, the Boy Scouts reaffirmed their policy of excluding homosexuals.
"I am relying on my personal experience with Morons, which have been universally positive." -jwpegler
#2. To: Brian S, *Liberal Rehab Staff* (#0)
He's Gay
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#3. To: Capitalist Eric (#1)
And when you have an association for some cause, how wonderful it is, to exclude those from the group, wo who refuse to abide by the group rules! The GALL of Some people, who aren't interested in "diversity!".
#4. To: Brian S (#0)
#5. To: no gnu taxes, sucking Obama's dick and swallowing (#4)
sucking Obama's dick and swallowing.
#6. To: Brian S (#5)
"I am relying on my personal experience with Morons, which have been universally positive." -jwpegler
#7. To: Brian S (#0)
The right to associate with whomever you want also means that you have the right to not associate with whomever you want.
Look, we all know that you are a dimwitted black from Detroit, who hates America.
You are all about grievance. The country can't move forward with grievance as its chief characteristic.
Grievance results in tyranny.
You are uniformed and crazy to believe that you will somehow be immune from the coming tyranny just because you are a dumb black guy, who goes along with whatever the leftists say.
Just watch...
"we must as a species go into a period of shrinkage that we have not experienced since the Dark Ages and the Black Plague" -- lucysmom
#8. To: brain shit (#0)
"It was by far the biggest goal of my life. It's totally devastating."
#9. To: brain shit (#0)
In an interview with Yahoo! News Ryan said that his scoutmaster knew he was gay.
#10. To: jwpegler (#7)
#11. To: Capitalist Eric (#6)
Now wipe your chin, boy.
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