Sunday, July 29, 2012

Boy Scouts and Gays


I saw in the news the other day that the Boy Scouts reaffirmed their stand on homosexual leaders--to the outcry of ACLU some Democrats and other "concerned" Americans  concerned about "equal rights"   I would think that this coming so soon after the Sandusky/Penn State, the decision by the Boy Scouts was very smart (I know Sandusky is called a pedophile by the press--but he only molested boys--doesn't that make him a homosexual?--not my idea only--I heard the same thing, more or less by either Glen Beck, Neal Boortz or Rush.  I can see the Boy Scouts not wanting to pay all the law suits that would come if one of their homosexual leaders turned into another Sandusky.
     On the subject of gay marriage--Boortz had an interesting caller-Boortz debate on the subject the other day (Boortz surprises me, he says he's a libertarian and won't take any caalls from people who want to argue with him about abortion--he's pro-choice--gov't should stay out of people's medical choices)  anyway, back to marriage--I missed the first part of the call so I don't know where the call was coming from, but the caller insisted that anti-gay marriage laws discriminated against him.  Boortz countered that there was no discrimination--he couldn't marry a gay man either. If neither of them could marry a gay man, where was the discrimination?  Interesting point--I'd never thought of the subject quite like that but it takes it out of the religious realm and puts into the legal realm, where people couldn't say that we are trying to impose our own morality on them .
Speaking of trying to impose morality, I love the controversy over Chik-fil-A.  the owner was expressing his views on Same-sex marriage and his religious foundation for them which happened to be the same views Obama held until he 'Evolved' a few months ago (See my Mark Twain quote on Darwin on evolution--it fits this situation perfectly) And here come the mayors of Boston, San Francisco, and Chicago saying they will block any attempt to put a Chik-fil-A in their towns.  The Mayor of Boston later backed down, and CfA probably would find it too expensive to go into San Fran with all their regulations about franchise operations and Big box stores.  But Rahm Emanuel took the cake  
when he said that CfA wouldn't be welcome because they don't hold to Chicago 'values'.  Rush asked, "What would those values be?  The highest murder rate in the country, half their governors in jail--including Blago who comes from Chicago and was a friend of the Mayor,and other government officials also being accused of corruption, The home town of Resko (friend of Obama who gave him a sweatheart deal on his home and is now in jail, the city of Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Bernadine Dorn, Jesse Jackson (both father and son--father: the shakedown artist--tht's hiow he got a beer distribution center for his nephew. and son under ethics investigation in the House for corruption in the Obama Senate seat scandal, and is now in the Mayo Clinic under treatment), Louis Farrakhan (who can speak his anti-Jewish and anti-white rant and not offend the Mayor), and the problems he's been having with the teacher's union trying to get a longer school day/year: they have the shortest in the country--those are the Chicago 'values' CfA doesn't believe in--Praise God they don't.
By the way, Rahm's brother Ezekial is medical ethicist at the NIH (and an advisor to Obama on the health care law) who believes that life has different value at different times of their life--babies don't have much value (to society) when they are small--and sickly, so we shouldn't spend scarce medical dollars on them--and the same is true for the elderly--their contribution to society is done and now they are a drag on those scarce medical funds.  Remember when that lady asked Obama about her 100 year old mother who needed a hip replacement (or was it a heart pace maker?)  She asked if her life long healthy life style and joy of life shouldn't qualify her for the medical treatment even at her age, and Obama answered that at some point shouldn't you just put her on aspirin or other pain killers and try to make her last days comfortable as possible, and not burden the medical system with needless care.
well I've gone on enough (and I haven't even gotten to the what some spokesman for Obama said about the Prez and his love of Israel)  Good night