Comments on: Prager: Left Destroys More than It Creates

By: ReasonableArt

ReasonableArt — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:32:44 +0000

mary moore.

Can it be that you are back for good. Of course it is always so good to hear you and your reasons. Next time you should jump on early to tell the good about obama. For i am sure you have seen all the bad that right wingers say about obama. Unless it was for people like you we would have to many right winged ones talking the mo/cheny points. Sorry that you can not talk more to us. Even geneo seems to listen to your reason on how good obama is. Do please post more often on how obama has helped the cell phones for your husband be better.

art

By: ReasonableArt

ReasonableArt — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:26:40 +0000

geneo,
Of course i have talked about left winged nuts. But as usually you do not listen to reason. And you stick to you right winged cheny news. Billie clinton is a left winged nut that i talked about. And teddy was a left winger that i talked about. Maybe it was a different geneo that was on the post board of this sight. As usual you find the similar talking points of the cheny man but forget true acts. In billie we saw one that hurt the comman due to his flesh desires and anger. So then teddy was one that tried to eat and drink his guilts to quiet and did that glutin practice. For now there is the micheal moor that is a left winged nut. And his triying to talk bad about obama. It is his guton acts that also make him look bad. Lets admit that you have plenty of examples of left wingers that are also cheny/money drove to talk bad about obama. Ed stien is another one that is losing his reasonable thinking. During past days he had good sayings and drawnings about obama but lately he is getting to soe speaking from me for his error ways.

art

By: Gene

Gene — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:55:16 +0000

Once again Dennis Prager is right-On.

I say to Brian, go out and scout your own boys and leave the Boy Scouts of America alone.

And poor Jude ate the bait being fed to her by the left. Hope your little boy makes it through your liberal leveling attempts at letting him grow up. Hope you don’t succeed in protecting him from the middle and upper classes.

And Arto, . . how come you never speak of any left winged nuts? Surely there are many among ‘coomon’ men.

By: Jude

Jude — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:07:27 +0000

I was involved with Boy Scouts as a parent leader for 5 years. I thought it might be good for my boys, but I hated almost every moment of it. From boy scouts aping and therefore mocking American Indian dancing to the overt discrimination against not only gays and atheists, but also anyone who happened to be a single parent, I was generally upset. What did I, a liberal, share with those I labored alongside? 1) A desire to protect children from evil (boy scout leaders never go anywhere with children alone) 2) a desire to instill a love of nature and practical skills in boys 3) a love of the flag. I think that’s about it. The boy scouts should be challenged for their exclusivity; they should be inclusive of others. They should also not be an exclusively middle and upper class organization, but that’s what they are. No poor people need apply.

By: ReasonableArt

ReasonableArt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:02:49 +0000

brian,

Now you are right spot on. On the mark with right winged nuts. Somehow they just are against the coomon man. Even though most all the world is for obama. Now they forget that true fact and try to make the ones for the common man look bad. Seems that they should get run by the us government so they can learn to help the common man. Every one knows that obama is for the rights of the gays-look at how he has helped them.

art

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:34:10 +0000

As for former Boy Scout, and Eagle Scout I can certainly understand why Mr. Prager thinks this is an attack from the left, because he identifies himself as being from the “right”. The Boy Scouts are a private organization, and with that, they can do anything they want to do as far as requirements of admission. Where they fall short is in their inclusiveness of all young men, especially those who identify themselves as gay. Some young men may not even understand why their attraction leans more towards the same sex.

I like how Mr. Prager states “Therefore it is entirely accurate to state that the left wishes to destroy the Boy Scouts as that organization now exists.” as fact, when in reality, it is his opinion. I identify myself as one of those from the left, and I do not wish to destroy the Boy Scouts. Do I wish they would be more inclusive of those who identify themselves as gay, sure. But as an organization they have the right to do so. At the same time, young boys, and male leaders can also suppress their attraction to the same sex, or in other words – lie, which is not a foundation of the Scouting program.

What about boys who go all the way through Scouts and THEN are able to accurately identify themselves as gay? What then? Should the experiences they had while in Scouts be diminished in some day, or even be revoked?

It seems to me that Mr. Prager had two parts to this opinion article. 1. To bash the left, and 2. to prop up his conservative views as somehow being more altruistic than the left (which is laughable).

I wonder how many gay men (or lesbian women) participate in his group that traveled to Africa. I also wonder how many men he helped in Africa were gay themselves, and if it made a difference if they were gay or not?

Ultimately his views are very narrow, short sighted and opinionated (which is his right). But as far as the left bringing down America? Not likely. The Left have done a great deal of good, as well as the Right. But equally they have also had their moments of self-righteousness and destruction and to think or say anything else is just wrong.