Sean Hannity Talks About Values At Local Boy Scout Event

Sean Hannity was in town the other day, speaking to the American Values dinner of the Boy Scouts. The local American Values Dinner is one of those annual events in which the Boy Scouts honor local citizens for long and loyal service, and three good ones got the annual Ralph Cleveland Distinguished Citizenship Award: Judge Sid Smith, Joan Hopkins and "Bub" Dunlap. These are popular and well-respected local people, but let's face it, it was the nationally recognized talk-show host, Sean Hannity, that drew the crowd, and it seems fair to report that he did not disappoint his listeners.

The major battle going on here in America right now, Hannity said, has to do with our values ... and they can be divided into what we call liberal and conservative. For those who are conservatives, he noted, "there are forces at work that don's share our values." He used the flag as an example. "There are those that want our kids to stand up in school and recite the pledge of allegiance and mean it," he said, "and there are those who do not want their children, or anybody else's children, to say the pledge."

Hannity continued by saying: If we believe there are certain values that have made America strong, and its people strong, then we need to stand up for those values. They are worth fighting for. In recent years it appears liberal values have made great headway in this country. Among those groups that have been challenged for their basic beliefs you will find the Boy Scouts. They have been publicly challenged because they are for boys only; challenged because they will not accept gays as Scoutmasters; challenged because they have God in their list of beliefs. One by one, he pointed out, the basic values that have made America strong are being challenged by the forces of liberalism.

For those who believe in the core values of the Boy Scouts, which obviously to Hannity are the core values that have made America great, then the time has come when conservatives must fight for what they believe. "I am often asked," he said, "how can I do that?" This is a free country, he said, and you vote for the political candidates who stand for the same values you do ... you vote for them and you work for them. And secondly, you give your full support to the organizations that support the values you believe are right, and among those organizations are the Boy Scouts. "This is one organization," Sean Hannity said, "that is going to stand strong."

This is Gordon Sawyer, and may the wind always be at your back.