there are a lot of people, maybe one, maybe none. maybe i don t remember what i am talking about that didn t do the boy scout jamboree thing. they turned down performing because of their stance on allowing gays as troop leaders. yes. and yet they still performed like in the middle east. where gays can be killed. i think there is a lot of inconsistencies going. i will take that and say there is a strain of progressive thought that tom was talking about. it is obsessed with since of the past. it is about grandpa s since or thomas jefer sopa s sins. but when they look in the mirror they no longer exist. the internet is made so much worse and being offended is a sign of virtue. the better the person you are
while we don t agree with the aggressive tone, had the bombings be happened, he would have been clock full of news. it was the week that wasn t. it turns out it was pretty interesting itself. let s back spin. the story that we didn t get to talk to last week that i thought was pretty interesting was there boy scouts of america announcement that they were no longer going to deny membership to their young members based on their sexual preference. they re still maintaining a ban on openly gay adult troop leaders. and this is something they ll vote on in may in dallas. but got to say. i think this is an interesting move for one reason. because the supreme court really settled this in 2000 with their case saying that the boy scouts of america were free to discriminate against whomever they wanted. that was well within their first amendment rights of freedom of association. i agree with that even though i disagree with the boy scouts
scouts. the governing board of the boy scouts of america is recommending ending that organization s ban on openly gay scouts but the board still wants to prohibit gay troop leaders. more after a break. right. but the most important feature of all is. the capital one purchase eraser. i can redeem the double miles i earned with my venture card to erase recent travel purchases. and with a few clicks, this mission never happened. uh, what s this button do? [ electricity zaps ] you requested backup? yes. yes i did. what s in your wallet?
totally unacceptable. all of this comes as the boy scouts national executive board they put off a vote in february on whether or not they should lift the outright ban on openly homosexual scouts and troop leaders. and now they are expected to make a decision in may. the group said today we are currently in the listening phase where the bsa s committees engage key stake holdsers for input and develop a summary report. part of this process is to vur e survey a variety of key stake holders. it runs counter to many troops chartered by churches where the doctrine of faith openly opposes homosexuality. on the other hand you have the gay rights groups saying the boy scouts shouldn t be endorsing discrimination. also i should mention, fred, the fact this survey it was actually conducted by a conservative group called north star opinion research. and that is a republican polling
the internet we will need them, won t we? that s right. shepard: gerri willis live for us. thanks, gerri. the boy scows say they need more time to decide whether to drop their ban on gay scouts and gay troop leaders. the national executive board met this week at its headquarters in irving texas. board members decided to put the proposal up for a vote at the organization s annual meeting which is coming up in may. speaking of the chinese. their hackers are still attacking the wall street journal. that s according to the news corps chairman rupert murdoch who owns the journal and network. last week he treat tweet and i quote chinese were hack us or were over the weekends. executives from the new york times and the washington post say hackers got into their computer systems as well too. sources at bloomberg news managed to fight off attempted cyber attack. they are good with computers there. federal reserve says hackers infiltrated one of its internal web sites but did not effec