You're teaching your kid a nice lesson in bigotry there

When I was in third grade, almost everyone was gay. Or at least that’s what we called each other.

Evangelism should only be limited to loving and charitable acts…not by words that hate and divide…otherwise one should not consider themselves evangelists at all…but goats in sheep’s clothing instead.

That is why when I here the word “evangelism” or “evangelist” uttered by a Christian, I know something unchristian is going to be uttered next.

Brunette, unless you were gay in the third grade. :wink:

So, is belonging to the Scouts to begin with teaching kids that bigotry can be ignored? Yeah, the Scouts policy then and now suck for GLBT people. Moreover, have they even budged on their atheist exclusion or is that bigotry still ok? What I’m saying is, it’s an unstable soapbox to be on there.

Probably the most ludicrous part is that the BSA hasn’t actually changed it’s policy yet. It’s contemplating doing so later this month - so he’s not pulling his kid out because their might be gays, but because the BSA might allow the possibility for gays.

I’m waiting for the fun contradiction when an 18 year old Eagle Scout who happens to be gay is no longer allowed to be a member of the troop he grew up in, but will be allowed to join the Venture Crew that meets in the same building, since Venturing lets one be a youth until 21.

I take it that you can’t open a Canadian scout troopin the USA and be done with the bigots? (Something like that was done by some anti-gay Canadian Anglican churches – they terminated their Anglican Communion of Canada affiliation, and switched over to the Southern Cone of America (South American Anglican affiliation)).

Pretty soon there’ll be a merit badge for it. :wink:

To be fair the only people who had any problems with the tax collectors where people who owed taxes. And the only people who had problems with prostitutes were the people who couldn’t afford them.

It would be like hanging out with one of them parking ticket officers and a hot trophy wife.

Just don’t hide them together! We know all about clergy being alone with little kids. :smiley:

My first crush I remember was a boy in my kindergarten class.

I’m sure there are third graders who’ve passed by my notice, but other third graders I’ve met I’d bet my house they’ll be gay.

“Brunet” was not a typo. If I wanted to inflect my adjectives for gender, I’d be writing in Italian, and nobody wants that.

Tax collectors are gay Cub Scouts? Who knew? :confused:

When this story reared its ugly head, I wondered what the Girl Scouts’ stance was on lesbians, and it’s this: THEY DON’T HAVE ONE.

:cool:

In addition, unless an event is explicitly females only, men may attend as long as an adult woman is present. There were two girls in my troop who were being raised by single fathers; one was a widower, and the other had sole custody at a time when that kind of thing was almost unheard-of, and trust me, there were some very good reasons why the kids lived with him. :frowning:

But you did inflect for gender, didn’t you? The much more common term in English is brunette, for either gender. Brunet is used much more often to refer specifically to men. So you’ve chosen to depart from the gender neutral term to use the masculine term in an effort to make the masculine term be gender-neutral.

You’d have to be pretty gay to care about that.

I would say that I deliberately, idiosyncratically, obstinately, arrogantly, and ostentatiously refused to use the usual inflection of “brunet” (which I concede has become the norm for people who don’t think about such things) as part of a long-standing personal dislike for the notion that women are appropriately defined by their hair color (and their physical appearance in general). The usage was meant to draw attention to itself; it was a refusal to conform. What it was NOT was a typographical error.

I’m keeping my future kids out of the scouts until they stop allowing avowed heterosexuals run troops and join as scouts.

I actually knew that. Do you know why? Because a parent (from another troop) once told me that if BSA allowed homosexuals in, they would be as bad as “those liberal dyke Girl Scouts”.

Ooooohhhhh…but their cookies…:stuck_out_tongue: