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The Red Scare, The Pink Scare and the Homosexual Agenda

And the Mild-Tolerance Merit Badge Award Goes to… Seems the Boy Scouts may earn their ‘Mild-Tolerance’ merit badge in the coming weeks, as they are hinting to allow openly gay troop members. This allowance will come with the caveat that the determination of said admittance of homosexuals will be left to the leaders at a local level. This new directive allows the BSA to alleviate some of the bad press it has faced in recent months and placate many mainstream activists, while the organization circumvents the issues of institutional discrimination by “passing the buck” to local troop officials. While some troops may open their doors to openly gay and queer youth, and many more youth already within their ranks may ‘serve openly’, this policy leaves intact the underlying homophobia and discrimination within the Boy Scouts of America.  This new-found openness is reminiscent of the typical libertarian ‘privatize everything’ response; their keen idea that local business owners have the right to discriminate against a minority, if they so choose, as a part of the American ‘free market’. This libertarian ideal was highlighted by Rachel Maddow during her interview with Rand Paul in the 2010 election debates. Undoubtedly, the Civil Rights movement under libertarian authority would have inflicted a ‘different sort of equality’.  To not come out completely against discrimination of gays, lesbians, trans, queer in their ranks, the Boy Scouts of America continue the dodge responsibility and glaze over the harm their institution does to young minds.  The homophobia will continue to corrupt their policies, and the fear and shame will continue to effect the lives of the youth they mentor. The Boy Scouts of America must not be allowed to escape the consequences of their discriminatory actions. Whether they set up courses for troop leaders and merit badges on gender, social equality and sexual diversity, a grand effort must be made to end the tolerance of bigotry — locally, or nationally. There are no tiers of equality, merely layers of injustice.

And the Mild-Tolerance Merit Badge Award Goes to…

Seems the Boy Scouts may earn their ‘Mild-Tolerance’ merit badge in the coming weeks, as they are hinting to allow openly gay troop members. This allowance will come with the caveat that the determination of said admittance of homosexuals will be left to the leaders at a local level.

This new directive allows the BSA to alleviate some of the bad press it has faced in recent months and placate many mainstream activists, while the organization circumvents the issues of institutional discrimination by “passing the buck” to local troop officials.

While some troops may open their doors to openly gay and queer youth, and many more youth already within their ranks may ‘serve openly’, this policy leaves intact the underlying homophobia and discrimination within the Boy Scouts of America. 

This new-found openness is reminiscent of the typical libertarian ‘privatize everything’ response; their keen idea that local business owners have the right to discriminate against a minority, if they so choose, as a part of the American ‘free market’. This libertarian ideal was highlighted by Rachel Maddow during her interview with Rand Paul in the 2010 election debates. Undoubtedly, the Civil Rights movement under libertarian authority would have inflicted a ‘different sort of equality’. 

To not come out completely against discrimination of gays, lesbians, trans, queer in their ranks, the Boy Scouts of America continue the dodge responsibility and glaze over the harm their institution does to young minds. 

The homophobia will continue to corrupt their policies, and the fear and shame will continue to effect the lives of the youth they mentor.

The Boy Scouts of America must not be allowed to escape the consequences of their discriminatory actions. Whether they set up courses for troop leaders and merit badges on gender, social equality and sexual diversity, a grand effort must be made to end the tolerance of bigotry — locally, or nationally.

There are no tiers of equality, merely layers of injustice.

Protest after a police raid at the Black Cat, a gay bar in Silverlake, February 1967.— ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives.

Protest after a police raid at the Black Cat, a gay bar in Silverlake, February 1967.
— ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives.

St. Petersburg Judge Rules Anti-Propaganda Law Is Unlawful LGBT russian citizens scored a victory for their human rights as a judge in St Petersburg has ruled that the recent “anti-propaganda law” that allows St Petersburg officials to ban LGBT gatherings and events is unlawful. … Although a reason to celebrate, this ruling does not guarantee future rallies would not be banned.

St. Petersburg Judge Rules Anti-Propaganda Law Is Unlawful

LGBT russian citizens scored a victory for their human rights as a judge in St Petersburg has ruled that the recent “anti-propaganda law” that allows St Petersburg officials to ban LGBT gatherings and events is unlawful. …

Although a reason to celebrate, this ruling does not guarantee future rallies would not be banned.

While you are celebrating Obama publicly making comments supporting gay marriage, his actual policies are putting queer and transgender people at risk. While you are signing Think Progress forms thanking Obama for making comments an interview, transgender women in immigration detention centers face extraordinarily high risks of rape because of Obama’s stances on deportation and PREA. While you are saying Obama has your vote because he said something sensible, B Manning, a member of the LGBTQ community, faces the death penalty for blowing the whistle on war crimes.

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Is it wrong that I wish gay marriage would be made legal just so we don’t have to fucking keep talking about it like it’s the end-all-be-all of queer politics?  Hell, despite all the hoopla here in New York state about legalizing same-sex marriages last year, how many residents of this state know that just last week GENDA (Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act) was passed through the assembly yet again, sending it to the senate that has quashed it four years running?  No matter how often I insist to other (non-queer) students around me that the marriage equality fight does indeed suck up all the money, manpower, and media exposure to the detriment of other issues of far greater concern to the less white, less cis, less wealthy segments of queer society, none of them ever want to believe me.  Fuck you Bravo watching, HRC donating motherfuckers who care infinitely more that queer people can’t get married in North Carolina than the fact that those same queer people in that same state have no formal legal protections from being fired or evicted unscrupulously.

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Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.
Coretta Scott King