BY STEVE DUNN
The latest group to find itself in the cross-hairs of
political correctness is the Boy Scouts of America. Political correctness so
often carries an element of hypocrisy that reminds me of Jesus' charge against
the Pharisees, "You strain at a gnat and swallow a camel." As one reader of the USA Today commented.
"It is a private organization. They have a right to define their own
membership." Or as another commented weighed in, "They are a private
group.... As is the NAACP and AARP. . but no one is talking about changing
their requirements... As well they shouldn't."
I confess I agree with both of these gentlemen. Leadership
of Boy Scouts of America have long positioned their organization in the camp
known as "traditional family values." They have long depended upon
churches to house them and to support them, most of whom fall into that same
traditional family values camp. They have long served children, even
homosexuals, affirming their personhood, providing them love and grace while
simply refusing to affirm homosexuality as a wholesome lifestyle.
No one likes
to be told that what they have chosen for themselves is not a value that others
find healthy or desirable.
But it is what it is.
Political correctness has become the
new totalitarian ethic in our culture. Perhaps intended by some to do battle
with the general intolerance and prejudice that exists in our society, it
espouses its own form of intolerance shaped by the biases of an intellectual
elite who always think they know better than the rest of their citizenry. It
has come to disrespect any measure of right or wrong that does not support its
agenda. And because so many in government and the media seem have made
themselves the arbiter of right or wrong, political correctness has become as
oppressive to individual human freedom as as any proponent of extreme sharia in
the world beyond America. The very freedom of the individual to choose their
own values that it purports to defend is eroded by its radical intensity.
George Orwell could have been writing about modern day political correctness of
the pages of 1984.
Let the Boy Scouts be who they believe they should be. A
whole lot of little old ladies who need to cross the road would appreciate it.
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