The History Revisionist are at it Again

[Diogenes]

Now they claim the Founder of the Boy Scouts was Gay

NYT's OP-ED

"With more and more American institutions becoming inclusive and even openly gay-friendly, the Boy Scouts of America has just reaffirmed its unregenerate straights-only status: a special committee, formed in 2010, recently announced the organization's intention of sticking with the 2000 Supreme Court decision that it is within its constitutional rights to exclude gays from leadership roles. All this is richly ironic in view of the fact that the founder of the Boy Scouts, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (raised to the peerage as Lord Baden-Powell) was in probability a gay man himself — though closeted, of course, considering the circumstances."
"A Victorian military hero who skyrocketed to fame after his valiant defense of the besieged city of Mafeking during the Second Boer War, Baden-Powell was one of the British Empire’s most adulated soldiers, looked to as the very model of muscular Christianity. Baden-Powell, the author of the hugely popular and influential “Scouting for Boys” (1908), inspired a national cult of manliness even as he entertained serious worry about his own sexuality....."

[SNIP]

History is being cherry picked for every hero, intellectual , creative mind or hand in history with an unusual marriage arrangement, that bore no children or remained unmarried, sometime with a close public confidant, and turned into a Rump Ranger Icon by revisionist with scant proof or no evidence at all.
Perhaps these people were just smarter than we are.
Who shall it be next?

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[Ironsmith]

You see people? This is why I despise faggots and their evil ways, always looking for new avenues to justify their twisted and immoral existence.

It's high time we started beating them again, publicly every chance you get. The next time you overhear one attempting to denigrate something as pure as the driven snow such the scouting programs, I want you to pick up a bat or whatever blunt object is handy and cave in their skull.

Because god and the Boy Scouts hate fag's, and EC's should to.

[spirit of Ronald Reagan]

[Zonga]

Gays would probably rather be in the Brownies anyway.

[Uncle Al]

Gays would probably rather be in the Brownies anyway.

Good point. They could sell cookies: Dulce de Lecher, Do-Me-Do's, Skin Mints, Bagalongs, and My Fanny Smiles.

[Mr. T]

This would be a great reward for the little buggers.



We need to bring these kids up right, afterall they do have to attend a government brainwashing school where they are graded on participation and not on merit.

[Ironsmith]

How's about a hickory stick award for beating one down? That would be nifty and a real source of family pride and accomplishment.

[Aaron Burr]

How come the scouts don't get a nod of approval for joining an organization set up by a black guy? Everyone knows Sir Baden Powel was black, but had to pose as white during that strict, Victorian era.

All I know is that while the scouts taught me a lot of things, from boosting cars to making an effective getaway, c*ck smoking lessons never seemed to be on the agenda. Why mess with perfection?

[Ironsmith]

FIRE! You forgot to mention fire bro. I fuggin loved setting things on fire when I was a scout, and while c*ck smoking lessons were definitely not on the scouts teaching agenda they sure were good about instructing little kids how to set things on fire.

And let's face it, more kids need to be allowed to play with fire and handle weapons at an earlier age. It teaches them a heightened sense of personal responsibility and increases their learning potential as young adults.