Anti-gay Boy Scouts deserve not one penny in government aid

I remember going to the market a few months ago and seeing the Boy Scouts out in front of the store collecting money. They looked at Kent and myself with a fair amount of disapproval. Maybe I was looking at them strangely. I don’t know.

At any rate, it’s nice to see that other people are calling them to task on their discriminatory policies. I happen to think that the Boy Scouts do a lot of good. It’s too bad that they also teach impressionable boys that discrimination is ok.

I read this letter on fredericksburg.com.

I am one mother who is tired of hearing about the Boy Scouts’ plight to retain their government-funding golden goose [“Scouts may lose funding,” July 9].

It seems that in our haste to shout “separation of church and state,” we have completely neglected the greater picture.

Frankly, I feel it is deplorable for an organization that has repeatedly discriminated against homosexuals be given any assistance from our government. It seems as if giving the money is another way of endorsing its discriminating behavior.

In all my years, I have not witnessed the same support and funding for the Girl Scouts. Is this also a quiet nod that perhaps girls/women are still viewed as the lesser-valued sex?

It may be 2005, but rest assured the Good Ol’ Boy network is alive, well, and taking care of its own.

Leslie Jordan
Spotsylvania