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Boy Scouts Introduce Merit Badge For Not Pirating
The_Slaughter writes "The MPAA has recruited the boy scouts of America to do their dirty work. Scouts will now be able to learn a merit badge for anti-piracy related activities, including creating public service announcements urging others not to steal movies or music. No word yet on if that includes helping the MPAA file lawsuits against 80-year-old grandmothers."
Corporate fascism über alles.
Attraction isn't a binary state, or trinary, or even discrete. The argument is more muddled by taking "child molester" as a single type. If you took a sample of heterosexual men, and showed them an array of women of varying age, there would be some (a lot) who would be attracted, even more attracted to those women who were post-pubescent, but not of legal age. Men busted with jailbait type adolescent girls don't have abnormal sexual attraction, they have problem with impulse control. You could say the same thing about the congressmen. There's nothing especially wrong in the attraction of a homosexual man to a 16 year old, but acting on it is.
Attraction to pre-pubescents is a whole nother bag of worms. That imho is a problem with attraction AND impulse control.
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Well, there's a semantic problem there. A perosn who is "gay" is someone who is attracted to *adults* of the same sex; a heterosexual is someone who is attracted to *adults* of the opposite sex. A child molester is a pederast, most are males who prey on girls, some are males who prey on boys, some are males who prey on either boys or girls, a few are females who prey on boys, girls, both, or get off by watching male pederasts. You can be both gay and a pederast, and you can be both heterosexual and a pederast; and oddly enough, you can even be both a heterosexual male and a pederast who preys partially or mostly on boys, is attracted to adult females, but no interest in adult males. This last is a lot more common than you'd think; there are probably as many or more of them than there are gay pederasts, simply because there are a lot more heterosexuals. Homosexuality is defined as not (psychologically) dysfunctional; but pederasty is very clearly dysfunctional.
...as well as other ethnic minorities Saddam didn't like. Too bad they didn't find any WMDs that hadn't degraded to uselessness.
Don't forget the threat of 'yellow cake from Africa'! The Germans told us the informant was un-reliable but Bush took it to the State of the Union and told the country it was true.
Or the Al-Quieda ties...
I can only hope that every Bush voter has a friend or loved one maimed, murdered, or mutilated by the violence Bush stirred up in the Middle East with this unneeded war.
Blar.
Why do people lump homosexuals and pedophiles into the same group?
They're not in the same group except in the sense that it's not wise to allow either pedophiles or homosexuals to be boy scout leaders.
As an adult hetrosexual male, do you have the desire to fondle a female child?
Have you ever seen a 16 year-old girl you'd like to fondle?
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Why is it not wise to allow homosexuals to be boy scout leaders?
It seems rather obvious to me... because the potential sexual interest, particularly between the leader and the older boys, may interfere in a variety of ways, some mild, some severe.
Keep in mind that boy scouts are young men, not children.
It's an issue that's simply best avoided.
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aren't all the scoutmasters gay(not that i have anything against that, my sister is gay), and not to mention....who needs that when your on slashdot this is news for nerds, were not the guys who try and earn badges were the guys who what the boyscouts say "HackZ0red teh Ma1nframe!!!!"
-Noc
And that's why the Scout Leadership program has "Child Protection Training" - to ensure rules are followed like "two-deep leadership" to keep boys and leaders out of those kinds of situations. Whether you're dealing with a straight or gay leader, or a pedophile leader (straight or gay).
I agree that I don't want ANY pedophiles, of either sex or either orientation as leaders in scouts. But I have no problem with a gay leader, even of my own boy's Troop.
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The fat tubs of shit who voted for a war-mongering drunkard started the ball rolling. Many intelligent people were warning about Bush, his ties to industry, and his political ties to freaks who want to re-make the USA as an Imperial power of sorts.
Bush voters were swayed by fears of gays marrying and of terrorists blowing up some red-necks dirt-farm in ass-rape Nebraska. They failed to use their intelligence, and used their emotions. They should pay for these poor decisions.
Blar.