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.
@amanda get back in the kitchen
Wow. Just like Deliverance.
hell no,what ever happen to tradition, don’t change it if it has worked well all this time..
I mean seriously I know he’s president but this isn’t government business
Agreed, hell NO! Its sick, no way on this green earth would let my son join. Pathetic, disgusting, horrible, unnatural. The first time something happens… then what. The catholic church has the money to sweep it under the rug.
President Obama should mind his own business!
Just because someone is a homosexual doesn’t mean they are going to brainwash or molest you or your kid. Get over yourselves. It’s called “Civil Rights”
As a straight person, are you attracted to absolutely everyone of the opposite ***? Then why do you assume that every homosexual person is attracted to and wants to have *** with everyone of the same ***?
oh so all those scouts that have been molested in the scouts didn’t happen by *** men ? no, so called married straight men did that !!!! bigot !!!!!!!
Wow. Be careful there, your stupid is showing.
Jay, I guess that means you’ll never send your kids to school? there are *** teachers, principals and counselors there. Better just keep them home in a bubble so the *** people can’t get them.
@shawnm2, your comment only shows that you’re an idiot. Nice try though.
@amanda is my dinner ready….cant here you?
“Get back in the kitchen” is something a boy says when he knows a woman is right.
@amanda is my dinner ready yet?
Ann your an Idiot!
@amanda take jannette with you back to the kitchen. Seriously
So all of you against **** and lesbians….let me ask, U gonna disown your children if they are ***? damn idiots, all of you!!!! such a shame
Janette & Amanda go away. Please. U libs go back to Northampton…Ur part of the problem….How about u two wakeup….
By the way make sure you dont let my food burn
@Jacqueline NOW U!!!!!! Another county heard from….
@Amanda go back to northampton…u can lead the boy scouts there with ur prius & birkenstocks
Amanda after u finish dinner then do the dishes….Ur wrong….Grow up
NONE of u people would allow your children to go away on weekend trip with a *** SCOUT LEADER….U KNOW IT
What’s funny is that this wasn’t even a story talking about sexism, shawnm2 is just trying to justify his intolerance and deny the fact that he knows I’m right.
Shawn , you are truely such a loser, so glad that this world has come so far and idiots like you will never be able to lead this country! Have a nice life…go back to your little box that you keep yourself in and live a miserable life!
I recommend a great documentary that talks about these kinds of issues on Netflix titled “So The Bible Tells Me So”. I am one of those parents that will love to have my kids join the scouts. BUT, I cannot share the organization’s discrimination against homosexuals. I would not want my kids growing up with that kind of mentality. It is PLAIN discrimination.
Who wants to bet that shawn is the type of guy who spends his days talking about how much homosexuality is a sin and then spends his nights watching ******* porn?
Wow, no real argument. I guess I was right again.
Their policy isn’t the problem, changing it would be. Bowing to pressure is wrong. Stand up for what you believe. If you back down or cave in…then you didn’t believe it in the first place.
If you don’t like the Boy Scouts then don’t join. If you have a problem with their rules then don’t join. Suck it up. Move on. Stop whining. Your stupid is showing…
Samuel go fly a kite….
Wow this country is going downhill! Why can they start their own club!? Its plain wrong god dam liberals we in this country gave the **** an inch and now they wanna take a mile..why do all the rules and traditions have to change for the ****? Merit badges for fudge packing ! This club is for boys to learn to be MEN! not girls…
Amanda, janette and jaqueline is the food ready??
Amanda, janette and jaqueline is the food ready?? Lol
anonymous777 dox this…..coming in late…go back to **…Im suprise u can read
DERP..DERP…TROLLING
anonymous777 I think your on the wrong post this isnt about one of your people committing a crime…lol