Wednesday, May 21, 2003

ROBERT E. IS VERY INCORRECT

Another good one from Doug Hagin:

You would think the very last group in America to surrender to political correctness would be the Boy Scouts of America. Surely if any group knows all too well the persecution the practitioners of political correctness can bring it is the Boy Scouts.

So certainly common sense would dictate the Boy Scouts, who have not bent to the pressures to admit Gays into their ranks, would not willingly surrender anything to the control freaks on the far left.

Yet this is exactly what a Richmond area Boy Scout Camp is doing. Recently the executive board of the Robert E. Lee Council voted to drop the Southern hero’s name from both its name and logo.

The Council plans to adopt a new name by next year. “ The ballot box is open for any and all ideas” Scout executive Robert A. Tuggle said of the decision. Really? All ideas? Or just those not honoring Confederate heroes or other figures not considered to be “sensitive” or “ inclusive” enough to please the bigots on the left?

Tuggle also stated the Scouts wanted a new name, which would be “more geographically descriptive, so that when we market ourselves outside of this area-- people will know what part of the country we are in.”

Is this guy serious? There is no name with greater Southern connotation than the name of the south’s greatest hero.

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