Posted by
Bob Siegel on Sunday, November 25, 2007 12:17:06 AM
That
horrible organization, the Boy Scouts is getting into trouble again. Horrible, of course, because they won’t allow
openly gay scout masters. You see, these
days, an organization’s view of homosexuality is the only litmus test. Never mind that young men learn character, skills,
loyalty, companionship, team work, patriotism.
Doesn’t matter. All that matters
is their view on sexual preference.
Actually,
sexual preference wasn’t stated as
the problem in this recent case. But it
seems that our local governments are on such a roll against the Boy Scouts,
they’ll come up with anything. And man,
did they have to scrape out the bottom of the barrel to find this one! In Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Boy Scouts
were taking donations at polling places on Election Day. The donations were for
the purposes of sending gift packages to the troops. The city forbade them, claiming that such a
gesture toward the troops constituted a “political statement” and was therefore
not appropriate for polling areas.
So now supporting
our troops is a political statement? I’m
confused. I thought the left had their own memorized speech about how they “oppose the war but support the troops.” Of
course I never bought this. On one hand
they were comparing the actions of our troops with the Nazi’s and yet they
“supported the troops.” Would we have excused
Germans who stood against Hitler but supported his SS and concentration camps?
Certainly
one can support the troops without
supporting the war. But they would have
to first disavow any mindless comparison with the Nazi’s because that displays
an idiotic ignorance that the left ought to be ashamed of. But yes, this distinction can be made. One can
agree that our troops are doing what they truly believe to be right, and at the
same time honestly disagree that Iraq is the best current
theater for war. One can (in such a scenario) genuinely support our brave
troops. This kind of support is all the Boy Scouts were trying to do. I was both a Cub Scout and an Explore Scout.
(I somehow managed to skip Boy Scouts)
At neither time did I know enough about the world to have an informed
political opinion about anything. But I did understand that sending a care
package around the holidays was simply an act of kindness. You see, kids understand these simple pure
gestures that complicated adults have forgotten. One must be an adult to realize we live in
the days when no good deed goes unpunished.
This is
Bob Siegel, making the obvious, obvious.
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