saynomore:

Gays have the official genetic Darwin award.
Why do so many want so badly to let them integrate?

Aparently they are human too. Who'dathunkit?

Though I support the Scouts, in this case they are out of luck.
If you want to teach what you feel is right, then do it.
If you want special rights, forget it.

The phrase "....to have your cake and eat it too" is the dumbest farking quote of all time.

/What good is a cake if you can't eat it?
//What's next? "So you want to have your car and drive it too?"
///Former Cub Scout

2006-07-12 02:47:50 AM FarkmeBlind [TotalFark]

RocketRod: Okay, who pays for the extra cops during Pride Week?

The Pride Committee. BTW, WTF is Pride a farking WEEK? I live in the Bay Area, and it's three days. Post random hyperbole without knowledge, much?


Here in Hamilton it's often refered to as Pride Week but the actual big celebrations are usually only for two or three days with smaller events at local clubs and galleries and what-not during the rest of the week.

My band has performed at a few Pride events here in Hamilton. Even though we're all heterosexuals it's one of my favorite events to play because everyone is there to enjoy themselves. It's a great show and I've never seen any discrimination against gay-friendly breeders that want to come and party with them.


As for the Sea Scouts.

I used to be a Sea Scout in my youth. It was fun. We never talked about Jesus or homosexuals. Then again I grew up in a very small town so you didn't need to talk about Jesus or homosexuals. Jesus was just a given. You just assumed everyone either worshipped Jesus or was one of those crazy people who were tricked by Satan into worshipping one of those crazy imaginary gods, or were Jews who simply hadn't got with the programme (yet). We had a jewish family in our town, they ran the shoe store. We even had an honest to goodness asian family in town that ran the chinese food restraunt. Never knew a black person until I was in highschool. Now adays, of course, everything is different and everyone in Simcoe knows what black people look like because of all the Jamacans who come up to harvest the crops in the late summer and fall. In my day the migrant workers were all french Canadians.

As for the homosexuals, as far as I knew there were none in my town. Once again small town upbringing had left me with the impression that all homosexuals were the stereotypical swishy, limp-wristed, lisping sissies who fluttered around in pink taffeta. It didn't help matters too much that my first trip to Toronto (the BIG city) afforded me the opportunity to see two very unattractive men who fit that stereotype, drunk off their asses making out on the subway. It was at once frighteningly repulsive and yet also oddly thrilling for this small town boy to have actually seen the wild homosexual in its natural environment. Upon returning home I had the elevated status of one of those great white hunters who had just returned from safari to regale my peers at the club with tales of the dark continent so fantastic as to seem unbelievable. "I say Winslow, have I ever told you the story of the time I encountered a mating pair of wild homosexuals on the TTC?".

Having been an eyewitness to this stereotype in action simply reinforned my belief that there were no homosexuals in my small town.

Mostly in Sea Scouts we played ball hockey (no that's not a gay euphamism, I swear), and this really cool naval battle strategy game with these model ships. Our troop was sponsored by a church and our meetings were held in the church's community centre. It was fun, I learned a lot of camping skills, and despite what erotic fiction on the internet has to say I was never once buggered by my fellow scouts nor the scout leader. The only unpleasent thing about it was the damned portsmouth hats we had to wear. Boyscouts got to wear berets, we had to wear these stupid vinyl plastic white hats that never fit properly, had headbands that kept falling off, and were dirt magnets requiring constant scrubbing and cleaning. God I loathed those hats.

I will say though that being raised on stereotypes was not a good thing. My naivite left me rather vulnerable for the unwanted attentions of a gym teacher who didn't fit the stereotype. Fortunately I managed to get out of that situation without a penis having entered my body.

Fortunately too I also learned very quickly when I moved to the BIG city to go to college that homosexuals, blacks, asians, and people of different faiths are not all like my small town upbringing had lead me to believe they were.

As for the issue in the article. If the Sea Scouts are going to discriminate against people based on faith and sexual orientation as a private organization they're more than welcome to do so. They have the same rights and protections afforded to the Klu Klux Klan. But like the Klan, I don't want them using PUBLIC money to discriminate.