Obama: Scouts should be open to gays and lesbians
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says the Boy Scouts of America should open its membership to gays and lesbians when its national executive board discusses the issue this week.
Obama praised the scouts as "a great institution" that promotes young people, giving them lifelong leadership training and opportunities. During a pre-Super Bowl interview on CBS, he said "no one should be barred from that."
The Boy Scouts announced last week it was considering replacing its longstanding ban on gays with a policy to let troop sponsors make their own decision on the issue.
The White House said last summer during the presidential campaign that Obama he opposed the Scouts' policy of excluding gays as members.
Gay rights activists praised last week's announcement, while some conservative church groups expressed alarm.
Obama praised the scouts as "a great institution" that promotes young people, giving them lifelong leadership training and opportunities. During a pre-Super Bowl interview on CBS, he said "no one should be barred from that."
The Boy Scouts announced last week it was considering replacing its longstanding ban on gays with a policy to let troop sponsors make their own decision on the issue.
The White House said last summer during the presidential campaign that Obama he opposed the Scouts' policy of excluding gays as members.
Gay rights activists praised last week's announcement, while some conservative church groups expressed alarm.
Hell yeh....Now I see his vision;
The Scouts as we know it could become a huge "in person" social network of deviants.
We could include Alcoholics, Drug addicts, Wife beaters, Gang affiliates, pedophiles....
They should all be part of the Scouts so we could completely dilute what the Scouts are all about.
While we're at it, we can combine all religious worship also. We can call it Obamaship!
We would have no set guidelines or standards. We would live on "Hope, Change, Forward, Rainbows, and Glitter...oh, and food stamps"  Good times....Weeeeeeeeeee!!!!!Â
Why is this guy president again?Â
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Change you can believe in..... there goes the country and our morals.Â
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Hopefully there is something left of our country after Obama is done with it.Â
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Why is the President of the USA continuing to try to divide this country? Why is he promoting agendas that will cause more unrest. He is supposed to be the President of the USA and that means all Americans, not just a select few. We are in trouble folks whether you want to believe it or not.
Isn't the North American Man-Boy love Association exactly what the president wanting the Boy Scouts to become???
Leave the Scouts alone!!!