Apparently it’s the season for the D-List homophobic rant parade as Chuck Norris joins Kirk Cameron in “washed up views from the edge of hell.” His source of moral outrage? Gays in the Boy Scout ranks. His level of inane conspiracy theory mish-mash and stupid, arcane ridiculousness? Off the Richter.
Norris, a proud supporter of the GOP and apparently ginger-colored hair systems, has taken to the blogoshere and penned a two page supposition that raises questions about president Obama’s affiliation with James Turley, a high-ranking BSA official, and their plans for an “all-gay, all the time” organization. This scurrilous treatise titled, “Is Obama Creating a Pro-Gay Boy Scouts of America?” is featured on the website, AmmoLand.com that we won’t link to because it sounds like a website where aging stars from the 1970’s wear red-tinged muskrats atop their heads and speak babble about ‘Merica’ and “All Mah Freedoms the Government is Tryin to Take Away From Me,” hang out, and that’s not a place anyone should visit ever. So you can find the whole thing here on another website that’s pro-GOP but at least “Ammo” isn’t in the title. Sheesh.
What Norris attempts to do in this thing is roundhouse kick his way to accuracy by starting nearly every paragraph with Is it a coincidence, which is always the ham-fisted way of asking something arguably stupid, but not wanting to fully own it. What Detective Delta Force is trying to ascertain is if there’s some non-altruistic nor-evolution-of-thinking reason why Turley would decide to “work from within to seek a change” with regard to the Boy Scouts’ policy on letting gays be a part of the institution. “I know! I know!” says Norris. “President Obama has found a way to put a nerve toxin in a genetically altered spider. That spider then bit Turley so now he’s under Obama’s complete control. Soon there will be legions of glitter-spackled, rainbow Oreo cookie thrusting, bare-chested fabulous hooligans gyrating all over the ideals of the perfect Boy Scout! Let’s assemble the Homophobe strike team!”
This is what he said using his inside voice. In the AmmoLand.com article (again, sheesh) he says:
Is it a coincidence that Turley came out swinging against the BSA’s century-old policy to ban gays from leadership and that he has such close affiliations with the pro-gay Obama administration?
Is it a coincidence that Turley and his wife, Lynne, were just guests at a state dinner hosted by President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama in honor of British Prime Minister David Cameron at the White House on March 14?…
Is it a coincidence that a couple of months ago, Obama reversed his position on marriage, extending the union to gay couples, and that Turley just came out of the closet in his position against the BSA’s position?
Is it a coincidence that in the same few weeks when Turley turned on the BSA with his pro-gay stance, Obama turned on the U.S. military and sent down a decree that the service branches must celebrate “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month”?
Is it a coincidence that Turley is in tight cahoots with the White House and that he is the only BSA national board member in 100 years to oppose its pro-traditional family stance?
He goes on this way, yammering on about coincidences, while citing every connection he can find between Turley and Obama. Did they breathe the same air at an event? Did lint travel from one man’s suit and land on the other’s while they both existed on the planet of Earth? Do they both hate bok choy? Norris, the doddering old piece of Kung Pao Chicken, ends his spin on conspiracy theory lunacy somewhere around immigration and JFK as he finally begins to wrap up this discrimination love letter to Kirk Cameron, but not before stating his appreciation for the Boy Scouts, the same organization he just spent two pages lambasting for coming out of the dark ages. He ends with this galvanizing statement.
I’ll ask once more: Is it a coincidence that BSA national board member James Turley came out swinging against the BSA’s century-old policy to ban gays from leadership and that he has such close affiliations with the pro-gay Obama administration?
Yep, all of that right before plugging his own nonprofit organization, KickStartKids.
And this is where Gay rights activists come in. Late yesterday as the Chicago Tribune reports, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) issued a statement. In addition to calling him a “fame-hungry has-been” which is certainly representative with his KickStartKids plug, they call him out for ignoring Mitt Romney’s statements on the matter.
“Chuck Norris should talk to Mitt Romney, who Norris endorsed for president and who has said on the record that all Americans should be able to participate in the Boy Scouts of America regardless of sexual orientation…. Chuck Norris appears to be a fame-hungry has-been with poor research skills.”
In a 1994 political debate Romney goes on record and says, “I feel that all people should be allowed to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation.”
Norris has yet to respond.
So, yeah, Chuck. We get it. You’re a homophobe who now has your own kid-centered organization. So ostensibly you can “tea bag” with the tea party, and maybe somehow get their hard-earned rage dollars (donations!) filtered into KickStartKids, your alternative to the Boy Scouts, who under your assumption, are now filled with scary gay poppies. You’re selling margarine, Chuck. But it’s good that you told us your agenda. We can now continue to ignore you.
