Texas Gov. Rick Perry too busy defending Boy Scouts from their gay friends to defend Texas landowners from TransCanada bulldozers

Hightower, whose 12-year-old vineyard was destroyed by TransCanada's dig, will now not have to worry about toxic leakage destroying his plants.

     Meanwhile, earlier this month, following an address to hundreds of Texas Boy Scouts in Austin, Gov. Rick Perry said the organization shouldn't soften its strict no-gays membership policy, and dismissed the idea of bending the organization to the whims of "popular culture."
     In a 2008 book Perry commissioned authored, he made the following charge:

"Because gay activism is central to their lives, it would unavoidably be a topic of conversation within a Scout troop. This would distract from the mission of Scouting: character building, not sex education."

     Below is a different and persuasively-argued point of view from another Eagle Scout, Zach Wahls, who AKSARBENT (lazy as it is) thinks could be even more persuasive if he let dissenting SCOTUS judges make his case for him the next time an opponent throws the Boy Scouts of America vs. Dale decision and "core values" at him on television:

     Here's what the dissenting judges said, in a very split decision (5-4) written by Justice Stevens for himself and Justices Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer:

As these terms were defined in the Scout Handbook, Stevens said, "it is plain as the light of day that neither one of these principles—'morally straight' and 'clean'—says the slightest thing about homosexuality. Indeed, neither term in the Boy Scouts' Law and Oath expresses any position whatsoever on sexual matters."

Related: The Human Rights Campaign recently obtained a Boy Scouts employment application and discovered that a criminal record apparently does not immediately preclude hiring.

"HRC obtained a copy of their job application, which says: 'The Boy Scouts of America will not employ... known or avowed homosexuals,'" writes HRC. "The icing on top? 'Conviction of a crime is not an automatic bar to employment' according to the application. That's right – a person's sexual orientation is more of a red flag than their criminal record."