The War On The Boy Scouts

The Boy Scouts, a private organization roughly one hundred years old, are supposedly a menace to society because they do not welcome every and all persons who wish to become members. Any number of fraternities, sororities, moose lodges, and tree houses should be considered a menace on that basis. But this is different, you say, because the Boy Scouts exclude people merely for being homosexual, and that's not nice. Excuse me, but how are homosexuals harmed by the mere existence of a group of people who choose to associate with each other on such terms? If the Boy Scouts didn't exist at all, there would be no homosexual scouts. The fact that the Boy Scouts exist does not magically harm homosexuals who are not scouts -- they are no worse off than they would be otherwise. The Boy Scouts are not imposing their views on anyone; if you dislike what they stand for, you can go somewhere else or found a rival organization. It is everyone else who is forcing their views onto the Boy Scouts, which is the true outrage here.

Once again we see that the professional complainers among us have no wish to be left alone as they often claim, but rather declare war on those who truly do. I will likely write a separate post on the nature of leftism, but this episode provides a sneak preview into what leftism is all about. Leftists do not want to be left alone or to leave anyone else alone, because under those circumstances they always lose. As natural-born losers, they balk at lifting themselves up (which they are incapable of) and dedicate themselves to dragging everyone else down. Leftists despise liberty because it produces results that damage their fragile egos. It is no mistake that Barack Obama, a garden-variety leftist with a chip on his shoulder, has denounced the Boy Scouts even though it's none of his business as president, and even though the Boy Scouts are exercising their God-given right to freedom of association. A real president protects people's rights even if he disagrees with how they are being exercised; a leftist occupier of the presidency takes everything personally and declares war on people's rights so that he can build utopia, the land where all private sources of probity must be suffocated so that only government can determine people's worth.