{"id":187178,"date":"2013-05-25T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/25\/bigotry-is-as-bigotry-does\/"},"modified":"2013-05-25T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T01:27:00","slug":"bigotry-is-as-bigotry-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/25\/bigotry-is-as-bigotry-does\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigotry is as Bigotry Does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the Southern Baptist convention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/youth\/2013\/05\/24\/boy-scouts-decision-draws-heated-reaction-all-sides\">does not support the Boy Scouts if they do not allow them to be bigots<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reaction to the Boy Scouts of America\u2019s decision yesterday to allow openly gay scouts but continue the ban on gay adult leaders is drawing intense reaction from all sides.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Richard Land, an executive with the Southern Baptist Convention, said he expected many churches to quit sponsoring scout troops. \u201cFrankly, I can\u2019t imagine a Southern Baptist pastor who would continue to allow his church to sponsor a Boy Scout troop under these new rules,\u201d Land, president of the convention\u2019s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, told the Baptist Press news service. \u201cI predict there will be a mass exodus of Southern Baptists and other conservative Christians from the Boy Scouts.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not &#8220;approving&#8221; of homosexuality may not necessarily make you a homophobic bigot, but demanding the right to what is a public accommodation on the basis of your disapproval <b>does<\/b> make you a homophobic bigot.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of the Southern Baptist Convention, I am not surprised by this.  Their bigotry dates back to their origins as a schismatic movement dedicated to promulgating slavery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the Southern Baptist convention does not support the Boy Scouts if they do not allow them to be bigots: Reaction to the Boy Scouts of America\u2019s decision yesterday to allow openly gay scouts but continue the ban on gay adult leaders is drawing intense reaction from all sides. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Richard Land, an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}