{"id":4229,"date":"2013-05-28T16:39:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T21:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2013-05-28T16:39:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T21:39:49","slug":"be-prepared-for-that-slippery-slope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4229","title":{"rendered":"Be prepared … for that slippery slope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Tooley<\/a> objects to the Boy Scouts no longer discriminating against gay scouts.\u00c2\u00a0 He sees it as a trend of the emasculation of male culture, a kind of conformity to the kind of society “determined to echo the preening voice of the sort of nagging school guidance counselor whom every adolescent boy dreads and seeks to avoid”.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, Tooley is analogizing contemporary politics to high school boys and their attitudes.\u00c2\u00a0 The point for the NS readers is that he’s not just got a concern about the reasons, but also a concern about the consequences.\u00c2\u00a0 He sees larger trouble brewing, and more than just the fact that BSA scoutmasters will likely be gay, too:<\/p>\n

[It is not yet clear]what this policy means for transsexuals. Cross-dressing Scouts? Only one of countless issues that inevitably now will arise under the rubric of protected \u00e2\u20ac\u0153orientation or preference.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d For a more likely scenario, how about teenage Scouts wanting openly to celebrate their pornographic interests?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, so Tooley’s mind has run from the question of whether there should be no prohibition on gay scouts to whether if they let them in, whether they’ll have to let them wear, you know, Priscilla Queen of the Desert wear for the backpacking trip.\u00c2\u00a0 Or whether their interest in pornography will be allowable and protected.<\/p>\n

It’s really two slopes, and separate ones.\u00c2\u00a0 The ‘transsexuals’ line is an error for the simple reason that if there’s a uniform, there’s a uniform.\u00c2\u00a0 So the same reason why Johnny can’t wear his All-State football jersey on the backpacking trip is the same reason why Sam can’t wear his sundress.\u00c2\u00a0 Done.<\/p>\n

The pornography issue is, again, simple.\u00c2\u00a0 Exposing the boys to sexually explicit material, even if they do it themselves, isn’t lawful. What does Tooley think? That once you let the gays in, you might as well fire up the film projector for the stag films?\u00c2\u00a0 (I suspect that it’s a background equivocation of protecting the boys’ interests<\/em> — what if they’re interested<\/em> in porn?, he asks.)\u00c2\u00a0 He even thinks it’s “more likely”!\u00c2\u00a0 More likely than what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Tooley objects to the Boy Scouts no longer discriminating against gay scouts.\u00c2\u00a0 He sees it as a trend of the emasculation of male culture, a kind of conformity to the kind of society “determined to echo the preening voice of the sort of nagging school guidance counselor whom every adolescent boy dreads and seeks … Continue reading Be prepared … for that slippery slope<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1968],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slippery-slope","tag-slippery-slope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}