Comments on: Sacto Scouts: we fired him for looking and acting gay, not for being gay http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/08/15/47653 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Sat, 25 May 2013 18:14:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Erp http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/08/15/47653/comment-page-1#comment-136648 Erp Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:20:20 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=47653#comment-136648 I should point out the Boy Scouts don't kowtow to only one church. Unfortunately the LDS and I suspect the Catholic group speak with one voice and the others are either divided (United Methodists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians are certainly big enough but have plenty who feel gays and atheists aren't morally straight) or too small. In the 1970s it was the LDS against everyone else as far as racial policies and the LDS bowed to the change. Chartering organizations and numbers at http://www.scouting.org/About/FactSheets/operating_orgs.aspx I should point out the Boy Scouts don’t kowtow to only one church. Unfortunately the LDS and I suspect the Catholic group speak with one voice and the others are either divided (United Methodists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians are certainly big enough but have plenty who feel gays and atheists aren’t morally straight) or too small. In the 1970s it was the LDS against everyone else as far as racial policies and the LDS bowed to the change.

Chartering organizations and numbers at
http://www.scouting.org/About/FactSheets/operating_orgs.aspx

]]> By: Oscar http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/08/15/47653/comment-page-1#comment-136637 Oscar Thu, 16 Aug 2012 02:15:18 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=47653#comment-136637 Actually, I'd be happy if this loophole wasn't closed. I have no problem with a person's sexual identity or culture. If they have a personality I find annoying, distracting, negative, pushy, combative, or whatever, then that's potential grounds for being fired, even if they try to make that kind of behavior an entitlement that comes with their sexual orientation, religion, politics, or anything. We all need to try and get along. Conflict is amplified whenever folks feel they have a divine right to wage a campaign against their coworkers or neighbors. Actually, I’d be happy if this loophole wasn’t closed. I have no problem with a person’s sexual identity or culture. If they have a personality I find annoying, distracting, negative, pushy, combative, or whatever, then that’s potential grounds for being fired, even if they try to make that kind of behavior an entitlement that comes with their sexual orientation, religion, politics, or anything. We all need to try and get along. Conflict is amplified whenever folks feel they have a divine right to wage a campaign against their coworkers or neighbors.

]]> By: Neil http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/08/15/47653/comment-page-1#comment-136619 Neil Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:01:48 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=47653#comment-136619 <i>The camp director has no knowledge of this individual’s sexual orientation.</i> That sounds like the plot of a 1970s British sitcom. The camp director has no knowledge of this individual’s sexual orientation.

That sounds like the plot of a 1970s British sitcom.

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