A pass for a pest

I don't like when people or things in this world get a pass because of who or what they are. Let me explain.

This morning I was sitting at my desk at work, enjoying my morning cup of tea and I felt something on the back of my head... I reached for it and low and behold a lightning bug the size of a honda had landed on me. I removed it in a manly fashion (by squeeling and jumping 6 feet into the air) and escorted the little critter into it's next life. I don't like lightning bugs. I also do not like ladybugs, dragonflies or caterpillars. (I am ok with worms but that's another story). Somewhere along the lines people decided that while most bugs are gross and bad that these certain bugs are cute and acceptable. I don't get that. And I don't hate bugs.. I know they have a purpose in this world, but it's funny to me how society tells us that certain ones are ok and other aren't we buy into it. The cute bugs get a pass.

This makes me think of the courtcase that just got wrapped up involving the Boy Scouts and a building that they use that is owned by the city. There was a lawsuit filed bc the city has a nondiscrimination policy that includes gay people and the Boy Scouts policy says no gays. The city offered to let the Boy Scouts rent the property for significantly less than fair market value or the would need to leave the property unless they changed their discriminatory policy. The matter went to court and ofcourse the Boy Scouts won. NOW.. I am not against the Boy Scouts as a whole.. they do a lot of good things HOWEVER they are infact a private group that is discriminating against gays and are still getting a handout from the city of Philadelphia. They won in court because they are overall do-gooder children, so as to not rule against them, a jury found in their favor. If this was a group of adult white supremecists who did good throughout the city but nonetheless rejected anyone who wasn't white.. The group would have lost in court. No one wanted to rule against a bunch of Boy Scouts, so despite committing discrimination, they got a pass.

When we give a pass to one big and not another we are stating that we are too weak minded to think for ourselves, so because society tells us what to believe, we do so. When we gave the Boy Scouts a pass are teaching a bunch of young boys that sometimes it's ok to discriminate without consequences. Someday they will be husbands and fathers and business owners and members of communities. Hopefully when they are adults THEY will have more sense than the people that served on the jury that allowed those prejudices to go on.