Trail Life USA Spokesman: We Will 'Not Tolerate' Gays Because They're 'Intolerant'
John Stemberger, the Religious Right activist who founded Trail Life USA as an anti-gay alternative to the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) said
yesterday that gay people are “intolerant,” and that is why he will not
“tolerate” them in Trail Life USA or any other youth group.
Stemberger, who also leads the Florida Family Policy Council, told Crosstalk host
Jim Schneider that openly, “loud and proud,” gay youth “will not be
tolerated in Trail Life USA” and should be barred from “any youth
program.”
He also worried that minors increasingly
identify as gay, “especially boys that have had abuse in their life,
that don’t have a father, that are hearing all of these messages in the
culture, ‘are you gay,’ ‘are you bi,’ ‘are you gender curious,’ ‘are you
whatever,’ and they hear all that nonsense.” Stemberger added that “we
view a same-sex attraction as being very different than this new,
sociopolitical construct of ‘gay,’ which is a political movement that is
an in-your-face, intolerant, attitude agenda.”
While Stemberger had no problems organizing a
defection from the BSA, he said he is outraged by Disney’s move to pull
its funding of the BSA because the organization still bars gay people
from leadership roles.
He called Disney’s decision proof that gay rights advocates have a “vitriolic spirit” of “intolerance.”
“Disney’s bought into it, Disney is
completely a pro-gay agenda,” he said. “ I don’t trust Disney anymore
with my kids. The Disney Channel can’t be trusted. If it has ‘Disney’ on
it and says it’s for kids you better watch what it is parents because
they can no longer be trusted as a family source for entertainment.”
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