Reply #53: that's because you were a scout [View All]

[northzax]

before the Southern Baptists and Mormons took the freaking thing over.

I was a scout in the 80's (topped out at Life, back then you had to be 16 to go Eagle, and I couldn't see myself waiting two years to rise one more rank and then top out. Anyway, even in the heartland of America, I had a gay scoutmaster. did I know he was gay? no, didn't even think about it. but then, at some point years later, I was thinking and it just hit me (so I asked my mom and she replied "of course, you didn't know that?) now, of course, the wingnuts running scouting have made a big deal about it.

what I think is really sad for the scouts on this whole thing is how people panicked to find the missing kid. I mean good, you found him, but he's a fucking Boy Scout, shouldn't he be able to hack a night or two in the woods? Kinda the whole point, right?