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07/19/2012

Audio: Perkins & Huckabee laud 'morally straight' Boy Scouts, pushing me closer to my 'Not Buying It!' merit badge

by Jeremy Hooper

Perkins says the Boy Scouts, in keeping with its exclusionary policies, showed more courage than the "politically correct" military:


Full audio: Mike Huckabee Show via FRC

Personally, if I were trying to defend the trajectory of institutionalized discrimination, I wouldn't compare this current example with Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal, an overdue policy change that has majority, bipartisan support and has brought forth none of the ill effects that conservative prognosticators (led by Perkins) told us occur.

But then again, I never would defend such a policy.

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