Still Hating After All These Years, by Mike Gold – Brainiac On Banjo #327 | @MDWorld

May 27, 2013 Mike Gold 14 Comments

At the Boy Scouts of America National Council annual meeting in Texas last week, 61% of their electorate voted to admit gay kids into their club, incurring the wrath of many of their top makhers.

The Southern Baptist Convention, the Assemblies of God, and many other strong BSA supporters condemned this action. The Mormon Church supported the Scouts’ vote, and the sundry Catholic archdioceses that went on the record as of this writing were split.

I cite the reaction by organized religion because many of these groups have said they now will prohibit BSA activities from their property. 70% of the Boy Scout troops are sponsored by organized religion, so there is likely to be a steep price for the organization to pay for not continuing to push queer kids into the gutter.

However, we should not congratulate the BSA for this slight nod towards the bright light of justice. That same week, at that same convention, they decided to continue their bans on gay and atheist scoutmasters because, after all, adult homosexual men are child molesters and, gee, we atheists must be out there molesting somebody.

By the way, if I were a gay atheist child molester, there are at least two boxes I wouldn’t check off on the scoutmaster application form.

Not that this affirmation would placate the Haters. The Religious Right’s raison d’être is to go Golem over other people’s beliefs; they are as incapable of compromise as they are of reason and compassion.

Nonetheless, it is clear the Boy Scouts are really proud of themselves. They continue to stand squarely in support of discrimination, exclusion, paranoia, bigotry and stereotyping. They simply stopped shitting on a few kids. The BSA still teaches children how to hate… and whom to hate.

Now, you might say “But Mikey, sweetheart, the Boy Scouts of America is a private organization; a private club, after a fashion. Shouldn’t they be permitted to hang out with whomever they so desire?” To this I would respond “Well, sure, buddy. After all, we do not force the Ku Klux Klan to accept blacks, or the American Nazi Party to admit Jews, or the Republican Party to permit the construction of mosques.”

But we recognize these and similar organizations as exactly what they are.

Hate groups.

Just like the Boy Scouts of America.

Still hating, after all these years.

Mike Gold performs the weekly two-hour Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind ass-kicking rock, blues and blather radio show on The Point, www.getthepointradio.com, every Sunday at 7:00 PM Eastern, rebroadcast three times during the week – check the website above for times and streaming information. Gold also joins MDW’s Marc Alan Fishman, Martha Thomases and Michael Davis as a weekly columnist at www.comicmix.com where he pontificates on matters of four-color.

Moreover, Gold will be joining the aforementioned Fishman and Thomases at the Heroes Convention http://www.heroesonline.com/heroescon/ in Charlotte NC June 7 through 9, under the protection of phalanx of gay Eagle Scouts.