# Thank you James Dobson's! The future looks great! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 30, 2008, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223 "2008-10-30T07:40:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/41 "2008-10-30T16:56:15Z")
[Quote=Dobson’s stoopid “Storm Saxon” letter] The Boy Scouts no longer exist as an organization. They chose to disband rather than be forced to obey the Supreme Court decision that they would have to hire homosexual scoutmasters and allow them to sleep in tents with young boys.” [/Quote] This is bullshit! My son is in Boy Scouts. See this [Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_membership_controversies) re: BSA’s “membership controversies”. BSA has successfully kicked out gays, atheists, agnostics, and members who publicly advocated for changes in BSA’s policy toward the above groups. BSA has repeatedly won legal challenges to the expulsions, and to the membership policies that supported the expulsions. Also, there are existing BSA rules preventing **ANY** adult from tenting with a child other than his/her own son. That’s part of BSA’s extensive [Youth Protection Program](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_Protection_Program). Whoever wrote that part of the letter hasn’t had contact with Scouting in decades. And is a delusional lying manipulative fuckwit. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/42 "2008-10-30T16:58:20Z")
> [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > Whoever wrote that part of the letter hasn’t had contact with Scouting in decades. Or reality. But hey, such is the life of an email forward writer. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/43 "2008-10-30T17:03:07Z")
> [@](#): > > “churches have no freedom to refuse to allow their buildings to be used for wedding ceremonies for homosexual couples.” Funny how this would happen with the gays, but interfaith marriage has been legal for quite a while, and nobody is forcing Conservative or Orthodox Jews to allow synagogues to be used for interfaith weddings… ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/44 "2008-10-30T17:04:31Z")
The only problem I see is how are people supposed to have their mandatory gay marriage and a mandatory abortion? If everyone is compelled by federal law to be gay then how are they supposed to get pregnant in the first place? Unless there will be mandatory artificial insemination…I suppose it would work that way. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/45 "2008-10-30T17:06:18Z")
Dayum — I could have sworn that [Criswell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criswell) was dead! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/46 "2008-10-30T17:07:49Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > The only problem I see is how are people supposed to have their mandatory gay marriage and a mandatory abortion? If everyone is compelled by federal law to be gay then how are they supposed to get pregnant in the first place? Unless there will be mandatory artificial insemination…I suppose it would work that way. No, they’re just required to have gay sex regularly, AND straight sex, because bisexuality is another requirement. Orgies too. Lots of orgies. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/47 "2008-10-30T17:09:02Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > No, they’re just required to have gay sex regularly, AND straight sex, because bisexuality is another requirement. > > Orgies too. Lots of orgies. Ah, I didn’t know about the mandatory bisexual orgies. I withdraw my objections. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/48 "2008-10-30T17:15:23Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > Ah, I didn’t know about the mandatory bisexual orgies. I withdraw my objections. But won’t someone please think of the children, too? Where’s their role in this? Seriously, I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/49 "2008-10-30T17:16:49Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Hmmm… if there is mandatory homsexual sex, wouldn’t that be a boon for Catholic seminaries? In the rectory perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/50 "2008-10-30T17:17:02Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > But won’t someone please think of the children, too? Where’s their role in this? > > Seriously, I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. Mandatory abortions for stem cell research. Do keep up. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/51 "2008-10-30T17:17:40Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > If everyone is compelled by federal law to be gay then how are they supposed to get pregnant in the first place? Colonbabies. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/52 "2008-10-30T17:26:44Z")
[QUOTE=Religious Wackos] The Bible can no longer be freely preached over radio or television stations when the subject matter includes such ‘offensive’ doctrines as criticizing homosexual behavior. [/quote] Now, see, this is weak. How many verses of the Bible are about homosexual acts? Two or three? Out of how many verses in the Bible as a whole? Now, if you’re going to ban specific subject matter, it should be about something good. Like, when the Bible advocates genocide, or executing children for being disobedient, or when major God-blessed characters do things like murder people to steal their wives. I know! Let’s ban the most offensive stuff, like when Jesus advocates giving all you have to the poor, turning the other cheek, letting the meek inherit the Earth, or loving your enemies! Oh, wait – that’s all liberal stuff. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/53 "2008-10-30T18:08:03Z")
I’ve mentioned this before, but when I took over our church’s library the pastor’s first rule was “No Dobson.” ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/54 "2008-10-30T18:12:25Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I’ve mentioned this before, but when I took over our church’s library the pastor’s first rule was “No Dobson.” Impressive! He really is quite the menace to society, and one of the reasons that led to me becoming an apostate (so, I guess I owe him something.) My old church growing up thought Dobson was the bee’s knees, but his hatred, wacko hypocrisy, and un-Christlike attitude become increasingly disturbing to me. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/55 "2008-10-30T18:17:30Z")
Well, we’re Evangelical Lutherans, so socially we’re pretty pink. And heretics theologically. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/56 "2008-10-30T18:58:57Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I don’t think I’m going to be able to read that nonsense in one sitting, but I did get to the bottom of page 3 of the “letter from the future,” and I noticed a reference to a SCOTUS decision in the case of _Boy Scouts of America v Dale_. Now I had supposed the convention in referring to case law was to phrase it as [_Plaintiff v Respondent_]. Is this wrong? > > If it’s not, what did the Boy Scouts sue Mr. Dale for? The Supreme Court of the US does it a bit differently than most. They put the party seeking review first. So, this would imply Mr. Dale won below, and the BSA peitition the Supreme Court to hear their case. Miranda v. Arizona for example, gideon v wainwright, Bush v. Gore, etc. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/57 "2008-10-30T19:24:51Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I’ve mentioned this before, but when I took over our church’s library the pastor’s first rule was “No Dobson.” I have a very similar rule for my car radio - No Daughtry. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/58 "2008-10-30T20:24:50Z")
I’m curious about how our new Lord and Master is able to get the Supreme Court to do his Imperial bidding. Does he have to kill the existing Justices and replace them with cronies? Or does he employ some sort of ‘persuasion’ to get them in line? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/59 "2008-10-30T20:27:15Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > I’m curious about how our new Lord and Master is able to get the Supreme Court to do his Imperial bidding. Does he have to kill the existing Justices and replace them with cronies? Or does he employ some sort of ‘persuasion’ to get them in line? He simply burns out their minds and controls them directly. I’ve heard that, for fun, he makes Scalia, Alito and Thomas act out scenes from “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223/60 "2008-10-30T20:28:22Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > I’m curious about how our new Lord and Master is able to get the Supreme Court to do his Imperial bidding. Does he have to kill the existing Justices and replace them with cronies? Or does he employ some sort of ‘persuasion’ to get them in line? [Hypnosis.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=489292) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-james-dobsons-the-future-looks-great/470223.md?page=4)