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Originally Posted by NCB
Sounds nice and chummy, but when we as a society begin focusing on children's sexual orientation, then somewhere we went astray.
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Well done. You completely turned the point around backwards and refuted your distortion of it. That's called a straw man, by the way.
The point was that Campfire USA does
not make an issue of the sexual orientation or religious beliefs of its members. It's open to people regardless of their sexuality or religious belief system. The BSA, on the other hand, does make an issue of it.
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1. When does the BSA teach hate?
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Every time the BSA throws out a scout leader in good standing for being a homosexual or a scout for refusing to take an oath to God, they are teaching intolerance.
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2. Do you think it's possible to disapprove of a lifestyle without "hating" the people associated with that lifestyle?
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I sure do. What's more, I'll even grant you that there is a homosexual lifestyle; there are homosexuals who go out of their way to advertise their orientation, who wear in on their sleeves, who seem to feel the need to connect everything about how they comport themselves in public to their sexuality. There are also heterosexuals who do the same thing. I find both groups annoying.
Then there are those of us who simply are homosexual, and want to be allowed to life our lives free of discrimination. How about those of us who are homosexual, but are not part of the lifestyle? Do you disaprove of us?