So, what, we should allow them to be who they are? Who’s repressing them? How are they being repressed? Why do they need to target children to relieve their feelings of repression? That’s really a stupid argument.

“No one in scouting would be more closely watched or meticulously careful with their behavior than an openly gay scoutmaster.”

Bovine excrement. Allowing gay men to be scoutmasters is like allowing alcoholics to be bartenders; not all alcoholics will succumb to the temptation to drink, true, but if even one bartender does, the idea fails. It’s even worse with scouts because you’re dealing with children instead of beverages.

“The reason discrimination in a “values oriented organization” is wrong is that not all people share the same so-called “values”.

Thank you for making my argument for me. The very fact that not everyone shares the same values is why there are private organizations in the first place. Duh. It makes for a vibrant, living society and is far superior to the stultifying uniformity created by Leftist philosophies.

“They are primarily fathers, sons, brothers, spouses, friends, co-workers, church goers, patriots, benefactors—in other words human beings like everyone else.”

Exactly, with weaknesses and temptations just like everyone else, and it is foolish to put them into any position where their honor and integrity may be compromised.

“Insinuating that every homosexual male is a pedophile is as patently absurd as labeling every heterosexual male a rapist”

Which is something you’ve invented just now; I neither said nor inferred what you claim. Keep stabbing away at that straw man.

No one in scouting would be more closely watched or meticulously careful with their behavior than an openly gay scoutmaster. What about young men who are gay themselves? On what basis should those young people be denied the experiences and opportunities afforded by scouting.

The reason discrimination in a “values oriented organization” is wrong is that not all people share the same so-called “values”. There is a growing number of citizens all across America who do not believe that prejudice and bigotry based upon a person’s sexual orientation is a “value” that we should be teaching our children in scouting, or anywhere else for that matter.

Describing gay men who want to be involved in scouting as “people whose sexual preference is their primary social identifier” demonstrates a total ignorance of who gay people are. They are primarily fathers, sons, brothers, spouses, friends, co-workers, church goers, patriots, benefactors—in other words human beings like everyone else. Insinuating that every homosexual male is a pedophile is as patently absurd as labeling every heterosexual male a rapist>

It is interesting to note that in the the most recent, robust studies(1) of the effects of marriage on children, those who were raised by lesbian mothers

• Are 3 times as likely to have had an affair while married or cohabiting.
• Are 10 times more likely to have been “touched sexually by a parent or other adult caregiver.”
• Are nearly 4 times as likely to have been “physically forced” to have sex against their will.

So much for safety and stability.

(1) Mark Regnerus, “How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study,” Social Science Research Vol 41, Issue 4 (July 2012), pp. 752-770; online at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X12000610