Gays should form own group for youths

The vote set for May by the national board of the Boy Scouts of America is not a gay-rights issue: It is a “free association” vote (“Vote nears on Scouts' prohibition,” Dispatch article, Thursday). Our board will choose who BSA will permit to freely associate with.

Homosexuals are not barred from forming their own organizations and freely associating to build youth character. Their lobby groups could have been spending their time and money to build such an organization for the past several decades. Instead, they have chosen to work to take apart other organizations that believe differently than they do.

I find it duplicitous that a segment of the population that has been so excited to celebrate its differences has worked so hard to force themselves into the “norm.” Tolerance, it seems, is a one-way street.