Mr. Kirby’s title alone is what “scares off” all of the people in our country who know when something is wrong but titles like his (”Stuff like gays in scouting shouldn’t matter to us anymore,” April 8) have beaten Americans into political correctness guilt and we just ignore the water temperature increasing by a degree or two, each day, under the legendary boiling frog pot. First, it does matter to the 80 to 90 percent of the country, like me, who can’t understand homosexuality for a lot of reasons not the least of which it goes against God’s word in the Bible. We don’t hate gays but since we don’t understand homosexuality we have to leave it to God to make a final judgement there.
These same 80 to 90 percent heterosexual Americans also have kids, with young minds growing, forming and struggling to figure out new life issues much less complicated than the topic of sexual preference. For some reason it is not enough for gays to serve in the military, classroom or Scouting without advertising their sexual preference thus confusing all of us who don’t get it or frankly don’t want it advertised. That goes for sexual preference for straights or gays! My last point is to suggest you look up the charter and objectives of the Boy Scouts, or for that matter the Girl Scouts. You will find a long and proud list of objectives similar to the values and objectives that this great nation was found on.
What you won’t find in the charter or list of objectives is sex education or anything at all about sex. Sex education and sexual preferences may have their places in home education or that of school districts where boards and parents deem it important, but not in the Boy Scouts. I thought “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” was brilliant. Every American has rights and sexual preference should have no bearing on those rights protected by the Constitution and laws like hate crimes laws. However when sexual preference is the whole reason for a conversation in a classroom, military service and now the Boy Scouts, the tail has begun to wag the dog and it does matter to a lot of us.