'Right or wrong? Should homosexuals be excluded from the boy scouts?'

Now, I don't know why I did it but I thought it might be interesting to see what the BNP's take was on the recent 'race row' of Big Brother. Also, I think it's good to keep up to date with a range of views. Anyway, I went onto their website and their message board and found that they were annoyed about the three being labelled racist and questioned why Jermaine Jackson's 'white trash' comment hadn't been flagged in interview. Which is maybe a good point. However, after reading this, you have to wonder about the sanity of these people:

'The data indicate, therefore, that a homosexual foster parent is at least 16-30 times more likely to sexually abuse an adopted child than a 'straight' foster parent.

That is why the BNP must resolutely oppose 'gay' adoption. It isn't 'gay' for the children concerned.'

I'll have to explain that this came after a survey into gay parenting by a website in America called Family Research which, on its front page, advertises the book 'Right or wrong? Should homosexuals be excluded from the boy scouts?' The book was published 'on the basis that homosexuals pose a danger to Scouts.' So, obviously, any data that this website has should certainly be trusted. The editors clearly have no fundamentalist values at all, do they?

It's scary that this is kind of crap still exists and that people feel such fervour in their prejudice and hate.

A friend of mine saw a programme the other week about the guy that left the nail bombs in Soho, one of which was in a gay bar in Old Compton Street. The psychiatrist on the programme spoke at length about how the man had been bullied by his family who teased him by calling him gay from an early age which arguably led to his hate of homosexuality. While his behaviour and motives are clearly inexcusable and he'd proven to have mental health problems, this isolation and bullying created gay men as monsters in his mind.

This is an extreme case, but it just goes to show that the seed of hate can grow and grow. What would happen to the mind of a Scout who found himself shunned from a part of his lifestyle because of his sexuality? I don't know, perhaps he would be fine, but then again, perhaps not. Such exclusion is nothing more than bullying but disguised, often, in wrongly interpreted religion.

But, check out the website http://www.familyresearchinst.org/Default.aspx?tabid=145

It needs to be seen to be believed.

Anyway, enough for now. I need to get on with this novel. It's going in the right direction but it's taking its time...

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