It bothers me that in my city, the Boy Scouts can no longer hold their meetings in public schools, because gays became offended that they were not allowed to be scoutmasters, and filed discrimination charges that resulted in the Scouts losing the right to meet in public buildings.

I think that for gays not to see the inappropriateness of attempting to, in effect, force themselves on the Boy Scouts in this manner demonstrates an appalling lack of judgment.

Yes, I’m aware that parental worries about gay scoutmasters interacting inappropriately with their sons may reflect an overabundance of caution, when compared to the actual risks. But parents do, after all, tend to be protective, and a little sensitivity to this instinct should not be too much to ask on the part of anyone who wants to interact with their children.

Also, on a more substantive level, what sorts of life lessons can children be expected to learn from a purported “adult” in a leadership role who turns out to be so focused on me-centric notions of his own entitlement that he’s willing to file suit to throw Boy Scouts out of a schoolhouse?

When I see the way that certain militant gays are taking laws that came into being to stop them from being abused, and turning around and using them to attack the values of the majority, I’m reminded in a very uncomfortable way of the contemptuous and humiliating actions of the French after World War I toward the more powerful Germans from whom they'd had to be rescued--and the role this ill-considered posturing played in setting the stage for the later rise of Hitler and World War II.