Photography with the Left Eye

I got the following hit and run comment on this post:

Yea. I don’t want my son sleeping next to a queer. NO GAYS IN BOY SCOUTS

Well, since this poster didn’t have the decency to leave a real name (or even a good fake name), I’ll just respond here.

Statistically speaking, your son is sleeping next to a queer (and may be a queer himself). There are lots of studies, and no firm conclusions, but it seems that somewhere between 5 and 20% of the population is gay; depending on how the study is conducted, the numbers stretch from 1-40%. In today’s society, young people with undefined sexuality are often unclear about it at 11 (initial scout age in the US) and still often don’t come out by 18 (exit age for scouts in the US). This was certainly true for my referenced nephew.

In any case, as repugnant as the current US Boy Scout policy is, it does not attempt to ban gay scouts; but to prevent them from attaining the rank of Eagle, which is the penultimate rank for scouts. So, the boy scouts will continue to let your gay son sleep next to queers.