By Peter LaBarbera

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is planning to air on June 19 a documentary highly critical of the Boy Scouts’ policy of excluding homosexuals, timed to coincide with  “gay pride” celebrations this month.

Scout’s Honor is directed by homosexual activist filmmaker Tom Shepard and funded by the Independent Television Service, a subsidiary of PBS. The taxpayer-funded corporation is billing the one-sided film as creating “a  modern interpretation of the scouting values of courage and honor.”

The program follows four critics of the Scouts’ policy banning homosexuality, including teenager Steven Cozza of “Scouting for All,” a group that portrays religious opponents of homosexual activism as bigoted extremists.  The showing of Scout’s Honor launches a new season for PBS’ cutting-edge documentary series P.O.V. (Point of View).

The Web site for Scout’s Honor lists several homosexual activists on its board of advisors, including Kevin Jennings, the executive director of the homosexual group Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).  Jennings’ organization promotes acceptance of homosexuality, bisexuality and “transgenderism” in schools, and is pressuring schools across the country to take action against the Scouts.

(From the Culture and Family Report)

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OMED: It was 1959.  The highschool senior prom.  My dear friend Bob and I double-dated to the event.  Bob is a homosexual, and a great guy.  For me, a heterosexual, to pal around with a fellow like that was considered poor judgement in those days.  But Bob was a likeable kid, and shared my love for hotrods and early Rock and Roll.  We also double-dated to the Elvis Presley concert at Multnomah Stadium and the Buddy Holly concert at the Paramount theatre.

We danced in the aisles for the sheer joy of the music.

Bob did not take boys to these events.  That didn't happen in the Fifties.  Not openly.  He had a girl pal who loved to dance, so he always took her. You should have seen them together.  I wouldn't trade those great times we had for anything.  After highschool, he eventually disappeared into the San Francisco bath house scene where homosexuals regularly have four to six hundred sexual partners a year.  I hope that the scourge of AIDS hasn't killed him.

If I found out that Bob was part of this attack on the Boy Scouts, it would end the bond of friendship I have felt for him, lo these many decades.

Oregon is a very liberal state.  Liberals with their fondness for euphemisms refer to it as "tolerant."  But it isn't tolerant.  It is a state of hate.  Homosexual hate of "straights."  Liberal hate of conservatives.  Urban Black hate of rural Whites.  Feminist hate of males.  Environmentalist hate of business.  Academia's hate of truth.  Equality isn't their goal.  Not for a lot of them.  What they want is domination.

They are free to want anything they want, as far as I am concerned, as long as what they want doesn't harm other people, particularly children.  But, this business of using public funds to produce this attack on the Boy Scouts is a  mistake. 

And, it's a big mistake for OPB to run it.  The folks at OPB, of course, think they are part of a noble cause -- activists in the forefront of freedom.

But, this is a mistake, for them and the national system.  It's going to cost them some old friends.