The BSA is generally a more conservative organization whereas homosexuals are generally an ultra liberal demographic group.
Neither of those statements are particularly true. The Boy Scouts, as an organization, is indeed run by loony Mormons, but the individual troop leaders vary as much as anyone else. Same with the individual members.
Homosexuals, particularly young homosexuals, are probably the most liberal demographic there is.
If that's true, it's probably because conservatives keep trying to reduce them to subhuman status and strip away their rights. Would you support a faction that was trying to do that to you? Sexual orientation has nothing to do with one's positions on the fourth amendment, guns, or fiscal policy, however.
Part of what makes scouting so appealing to the conservatives that have made up the organization for generations is the belief that hard work and dedication is the route to success. Right or wrong, this is a belief liberals tend to reject.
Pretty much no part of this is true. Scouting has nothing to do with a proposition about hard work. It's about community service, the outdoors, and teamwork. Those are the three elements that pretty much every scouting activity is about. I've been involved with scouting for eighteen years. You can trust me on this. But let's hit the other nonsense assertion. "Errg, librulz hate hard werk!" Some of us (because liberals are less homogeneous in their positions than conservatives) view success as a team activity. Not the individual "I did it all by myself" nonsense that some conservatives (apparently you) like to tout. The idea that a person's success comes from them and them alone is a fantasy.
They tend to see success as being the result of the proper skin pigmentation
Race card! Those poor whites, so discriminated against by only having nine times as much average wealth as blacks.
and how wealthy one's parents are.
Right, that's why the left keeps doing all that "rich bashing" that conservatives get so incensed about. Because we're secretly oligarchs who want to ensure that the wealthy keep all the money. That's why we keep deregulating business and slashing taxes on the rich and protecting their offshore money. Do you only get your information in the form of talking points?
I'm not against letting gays into scouts but I wonder how long before the requirements to become an Eagle Scout are modified because it is suddenly culturally biased or single parent households can't take time off to do all the activities.
And then the slippery slope. Because apparently there's a similarity between banning a demographic from enjoying an American institution and having difficult requirements for an achievement. Man, if we let those blacks into our schools, how long before you only need a 40% to graduate and get your diploma? See how stupid that sounds?
Want to tell me how you can put someone into involuntary servitude and not violate the thirteenth amendment? No? Yeah, I didn't think so.
What exactly do you think involuntary servitude is? Because I do not think it means what you think it means. Especially when you said that owning other people was already illegal when the 13th amendment was enacted. Have you studied American history? Say, around the 1860s? Seriously, I don't think you understand what involuntary servitude is.
If they are in a public building that changes nothing since the organization itself is private. Though I suppose you could kick them out of the public building.
And that's generally what is proposed to do to the Boy Scouts if they keep discriminating. And let me tell you, the BSA does not have the kind of money to build its own buildings. Nor to pay full price for the space it uses for the Jamboree. The Boy Scouts gets a lot of benefits from the federal government. And the price they have to pay for those benefits is that they can't discriminate based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or many other elements. Honestly, the program shouldn't be sex-exclusive, either. The Girl Scouts and Venturers (who don't engage in all this discriminatory BS) are a different organization.
"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Quoting this quote. I like it very much.
