[Laura22974]

While it is correct that a volunteer organization can pick and choose who can be a member, the BSA relies heavily on support from public institutions (i.e. they recruit heavily at public schools and use public school facilities for their meetings and events) and from funding from public charitable organizations like the United Way. If the BSA is going to practice discrimination, it has no right to use the public schools and public money as a support system, any more than any other discriminatory organization does. If it wants to exclude gays, fine, but it isn’t going to use my tax money to do it. And incidentally, this practice seems to be unique to the United States. The Boy Scouts of Canada don’t practice this kind of exclusion, and neither to the Girl Scouts anywhere. Perhaps the BSA should remember that pretty much every gay person grew up in a straight household and wasn’t converted to another sexual orientation, and also that more than 90 percent of convicted pedophiles are heterosexual males. I’d much rather have my two sons be around kind people who happen to be gay than around straight people who think it’s all right to moralize and point fingers and practice discrimination against people who aren’t just like them.

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Name : Laura22974, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 39, City : Baltimore, State : MD, Country : United States, Occupation : college professor, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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