Thursday, April 8, 2010

Free Speech? Pfft

http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/92/2010/april/08/scout-leader-fires-back-at-atheists-attack.html

David. E Hasel doesn’t understand free speech:

“"It's a gross disservice to let this woman say these things just because she has her own opinion," Hasel said. "We don't impose our beliefs on anyone, but we do believe religion is something for the home."

Oh the irony. Hasel is the council executive for the Bucks County Chapter of the Boy Scouts of America an organization that doesn’t allow homosexuals or atheists to join. He complains about attacks from Margaret Downey founder of the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia whose son was banned from the group when he was 12. Hasel insists the Scouts have a right to exclude others yet, god-forbid someone speak their mind about the issue.

Now to be fair, Downey’s comparisons to Hitler were out of line but to suggest she doesn’t have a right to say it makes Hasel downright hypocritical.

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