Gay People Can't Work for the Boy Scouts, but Criminals Can

[Omaha Steve]

http://thecontributor.com/gay-people-cant-work-boy-scouts-criminals-can

Rob Tornoe for The Contributor

he Boy Scouts are really stretching their "morally straight" pledge a bit thin these days.

An employment application obtained by Human Rights Campaign (HRC) reveals the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) will not hire "avowed homosexuals" under any circumstance, but are open to considering convicted criminals for a job.

The application reads:

"Accordingly, in the exercise of its constitutional right to bring the values of Scouting to its youth members, the Boy Scouts of America will not employ atheists, agnostics, known or avowed homosexuals, or others as professional Scouters or in their capacities in which such employment would tend to interfere with its mission of reinforcing the values of the Scout Oath and the Scout Law in Young People."

The application later states that "conviction of a crime is not an automatic bar to employment," meaning that a person's sexual orientation is more concerning to the BSA than someone's criminal record.

FULL story at link.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

1. Using the word "criminal" as an example of the lowest of the low is bullshit.

And was the same tactic used against gay people not so long ago when they were a socially acceptable group to hate.

Again, the only difference between someone who has a record and someone who doesn't is the latter didn't get caught, or had the cash/connections to get out of it. Whenever I bring up the fact that EVERYONE has broken the law at some point in their lives and is therefore a criminal the reaction is always the same... Shock, SHOCK!, that someone would say this about wonderful me! I'm not one of those people! Pride, ego, delusion and denial rear their ugly heads in full force.

A universal truism sang by the great British sage, Mick Jagger, reveals:

"Just as every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners Saints."