"If the Left were truly tolerant-they would tolerate the Boy Scouts being who they have always been"

[kpete]

huh?

Jim Bridenstine ✔ @RepJBridenstine

If the Left were truly tolerant, they would tolerate the Boy Scouts being who they have always been. #pjnet http://patriotjournalist.com/youtube.php?Seq=32918 …
2:26 PM - 23 May 2013

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/05/24/2058051/right-wingers-freak-out-boy-scouts/

[Democracyinkind]

1. Oldest argument in the arsenal of bigotry

"If you're so tolerant, tolerate my intolerence"

As pubescent an argument as it gets.

[randome]

11. You called it!

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[William769]

2. I wonder who they consider the "left" is.

[Renew Deal]

3. Have the Boy Scouts been an issue for "the left"?

Most of that I've seen about changes to the Boy Scouts has been from the Boy Scouts themselves.

[Salviati]

4. It's the same old - "If you're _really_ accepting of differences...

...than why don't you accept me for the bigot I am" dumbassery that you get from the whiney right.

To which the only response is a slightly uncomfortably long jaw dropping stare, followed by a "wow, I didn't think it was possible for you to be _dumber_ thank you look."

[demwing]

5. Newsflash - some boy scouts "have always been" GAY

Tolerate that Bridenstine

[siligut]

6. The Boy Scouts have not always been homophobic

It is only after the Mormons became so involved that the bigotry reared its ugly head, because you know how important the molding of boys into men is to the Mormons.

[sibelian]

7. (@ the twit) Nah, it's YOU NOT being tolerant that we're interested in.

Twisting things about changes nothing, dude.

[Buzz Clik]

8. "Emanciaption? Are you crazy? We feed the slaves. House them. Treat them like family."

[onenote]

9. "If the left were truly tolerant they would have tolerated those white-only lunch counters."

The sad thing, this schmuck probably would agree.

[sigmasix]

10. no such thing as tolerance for intolerance

This old AntiAmerican, right wing whine about tollerating the intollerant has been used over and over again.
Progressives are not beholding to the machinations of bigotry and hate- even when right wing extremists are convinced that lies and hyperbole are the same thing as governing.

AntiAmerican intolerance is the main product being produced by right wing extremists- and the notion that the victims of the right wing should have to tolerate the bigotry and racism being spewed by them. Sociopathic policies and people have become the Anti-American right wing's calling card. Leave it to toxic racist ideologies of the right to blame the victims of racism, as opposed to blaming racists for maintaining an antiAmerican ideology of hate.

There is no such thing as tolerance for the intolerant. And those that suggest there ought to be are allowing thier hatred for America to cloud thier vision with the blood of babies and other innocents. Why do teabaggers hate truth?

[dsc]

12. actually if they had merely forgone the gay money they get from tax payer subsidies

then I would say they can run their club as they see fit. But when you ask for, and get, benefits other groups don't from taxpayers (such as free use of government parks and buildings) then you don't get to pick which tax payers you will serve and which ones you won't.

[Johonny]

13. But I'm willing to tolerate him not wanting gays in the scouts

I'm just not willing to participate in a scouting organization that's policies aren't tolerant of the basic human conditions. A certain fraction of society has always been homosexual and there is scant evidence this isn't the way it has always been. So there have always been gays in the scouts. Only an idiot would pretend otherwise. Apparently the scouts had enough people expressing this reasonable view that they decided giving into pointless intolerant bigots was making a negative image for an organization designed and billed as interested in helping shape young people's lives for the positive. Wow who would have guessed. So hate your gay all you want. I'm willing to tolerate you living a short shallow life in which less and less people share your narrow hate filled view of a bleak non-realistic world. Please bigots just don't think I want to join you in it.

[LWolf]

14. There have always been

glbt people in the population, including the population of scouts and scout leaders.