Gay Rights Groups Angry Over Boy Scouts Leader’s Upcoming MO Prayer Breakfast Address
- Posted on March 6, 2012 at 8:30am by
Billy Hallowell
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There’s a drama unfolding in Kansas City, Missouri, over the selection of Robert Mazzuca, Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America (i.e. the executive director), to speak at the annual Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast event this Thursday. Gay and lesbian groups in the region are frustrated that the leader will be giving the keynote, considering what they see as discriminatory policies on the part of the Boy Scouts.
Mazzuca, who plans to talk about faith, morality and ethics, will be speaking to approximately 800 people at the Kansas City Convention Center. During his talk, he will also celebrate the contributions of Mayor H. Row Bartle, who served as the city’s top public official from 1956 until 1963. Bartle was a major supporter of Scouting during his lifetime.
While Mazzuca is clearly qualified from a faith perspective, others — particularly those in the gay community who wish to see someone who embraces a more inclusive worldview — disagree.
“[The Boy Scouts] don’t appreciate all members of society,” explains Claire Cook, a leader at Promo, a group that works on LGBT issues. “They don’t allow all children and all families to take part in the wonderful things they allow and provide for people.”

Boy Scouts' Executive Director Robert Mazzuca (Image Credit: WABC-TV)
While Cook and her group don’t plan to disrupt the event, they are urging organizers to issue statements against the Boy Scouts’ purported discriminatory practices and policies. She is hoping that such a statement is made at the event or soon after.
In the meantime, Promo has created an online petition that urges supporters “to speak out in support of gay youth being included in the Boy Scouts at all levels.” Here is some text from the petition, as it currently stands:
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) have a long history of discrimination against both gay youth and LGBT families. Most notably, BSA adopted a discriminatory Youth Leadership policy in 2004 stating “Boy Scouts of America believes that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the obligations in the Scout Oath and Scout Law to be morally straight and clean in thought, word, and deed.” Under this policy gay Boy Scout leaders are stripped of their positions in the organization and often denied access to the organization all together. [...]
To have elected officials such as Mayor Sly James, who champions diversity, community, leadership, and social justice hold someone such as Robert Mazzuca up as a leader is not consistent with the values of Kansas City and the greater metro area.
But Mark Zimmerman, the head of the Prayer Breakfast event, has responded by explaining that Mazzuca isn‘t coming to lecture the audience about the Boy Scouts’ teachings.
“Robert isn’t here to talk of that issue,” Zimmerman proclaimed. “He’s here to talk of things that unite us.”
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:21am.
Ask yourself the question; Why do Gay men want to be Scout Leaders in the first place?……
And the answer is not to show lil’ Timmy how to pitch a tent…..
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:31amThese winy “gays” are free to start up their own scout organization. Why do they always feel like they have to f things up for the rest of us?
Monkey…nice reference with the “tent pitching”……spot on
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:48amEver notice how INTOLERENT these Leftists are? They want everyone to accept them and if you don’t agree with them .. then they are vicious and vile….
Report Post »robert
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:04am“They don’t appreciate all members of society.”
True.
They don’t appreciate mentally ill homosexuals who want to prey on little boys, drug addicts and alcoholics, all of whom refuse to go through the healing process in order to return to normalcy.
Keep up the good work, Boy Scouts.
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:06ammore than likely……makeup…….accessorizeing ……………maybe some ball games like pitching and catching…………can’t you here[do you want to pitch or catch]
Report Post »robert
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:10amCatB
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:48am
“Ever notice how INTOLERENT these Leftists are? They want everyone to accept them and if you don’t agree with them .. then they are vicious and vile.”
Absolutely right on.
Too, as with every other leftist cause, they refuse to allow anyone to go his own way in the pursuit of peace and serenity, holding on to his own beliefs and principles.
A person is required to accept their sick agenda or be the object of hatred and animosity by them.
If they had a slogan, it would be something like, “Support love and tolerance or we’ll kill you.”
Like the slogan, everything about them…including their inability to reason and logic in coherent terms….reeks of hatred.
Report Post »Marine 1
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:16amHomosexuality is a hideous sin. GOD made men and women so that they could procreate, have families and find joy in the process.
No matter how one views it, homosexuality is part of what is destroying our society. GLBT groups push their agenda on the straight majority and demand things left and right. Well, we GOD-fearing Christians don’t have to put up with their nonsense.
Just like the days of Noah folks! God cleaned house once before and He will do it again.
GLBT folks have the right to get out of our Christian nation any time they want to. They are a minority.
I suggest that you GLBT folks prepare for the Second Coming of Christ by denouncing your hideous practices, ask for forgiveness, go through a true repentence process, find someone of the opposite sex to marry and have a real family.
Quit complaining about the Boy Scouts or any other group that sees you all (GLBT) for what you are -perverts, pedophiles, carriers of STD’s, gross sinners and the very last persons we want in any decent youth or adult program.
By the way, my wife‘s cousin is a lesbian so don’t tell me I don‘t know what I’m talking about. Her life sucks and our whole family can see it.
PoliticallyRightUs.Com
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:20amDing Ding Ding Ding … You nailed it!!!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:21am.
Report Post »C‘mon Ya’ll would you knowling send your young son off with a Gay Man? That would give Jamboree a “hole” new meaning, Poor lil’ Timmy would show back up at the house walking with a lisp……
Echelon
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:31amRather how to “pop” a tent!
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:38amI remember being taught in Catholic school..When society accepts the gay lifestyle as normal .your society is in deep trouble..seems to be true..Leave the Boy scouts alone,there needs to be somewhere are children are safe from evil influence…..
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:48amtime to tell the perverts to shut up and go away.
Report Post »mecanic
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:49amnormal people don’t have to accept or agree with people who are an ABOMINATON. you will NEVER get me to say it‘s ok or alrite because it’s not. we have the RITE to our opinions. you can’t FORCE US TO accept you. you are an abomination, deal with it.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 11:41amI‘d tell them what we tell any parent that doesn’t like how we lead – become a leader and do it your own way. In other words, start your own scouting organization that focuses on homosexuality.
You could hold den meetings at bath houses. I‘m sure you’d get plenty of families who’d want to expose their boys to your philosophy. Hey, you could even do it with a Roman theme. At the end of the empire, wasn’t it common for homosexual men to mix with boys in Roman bath houses?
Hey, this could be a real money-maker for the LBGT community. They should check into it. Man, the leaders wouldn’t even need a background check, because who cares if they’ve molested children in the past?
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 11:54amSoon Obama will announce the gay mandate and bestiality for the scouts…scary thing is,I’m probable right about this
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 11:54amIf they have a better idea, then go start your own club. Leave others alone. They have a right to their own opinion and a right to assemble with people they trust and agree with.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 12:38pmWhy do they need the Boy Scouts? Isn’t NAMBLA giving the perverts enough fresh meat?
Report Post »NUTN2SAY
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 1:33pmYou know the question…..which came first the chicken or the egg?
Today heterosexuals must ask….which came first the heterosexual or the homosexual? You know the answer to that….of course the heterosexual came first!
HETEROSEXUALITY IS ULTIMATELY ALL ABOUT THE PRESERVATION OF THE HUMAN SPECIES! HOMOSEXUALITY IS ULTIMATELY ALL ABOUT THE DEVASTATION OF THE HUMAN SPECIES!
Mankind is made of human beings. To maintain mankind for the long run requires the act of procreation which takes a man and a woman.
TO BE ON “TEAM MANKIND” IS GOOD!
TO NOT WANT TO BE ON “TEAM MANKIND” IS BAD! BESIDES IT SPREADS DISEASE!
Now the government comes along and is telling in a compelling way to heterosexuals you better be respectful of those who choose not to be on Mankind’s Team or we shall discipline you in some way!
Religion and government are the creations of man. Mother Nature is the creation of Mother Nature! But it is man who thinks they can reward those who violate Mother Nature and punish those who support Mother Nature!
Heterosexuals of America please rise up and put the homosexual back in the closet where they can be kept away from children as far as possible! If we don‘t then then the next thing could be that the government will start allowing pedophiles to adopt children when they get tired of the homosexual voting block it had created and decide it’s time for a new voting block. After all it was government who sold out the heterosexual and mankind in t
Report Post »OklahomaBound
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 2:03pm“Mazzuca, who plans to talk about faith, morality and ethics, will be speaking to approximately 800 people at the Kansas City Convention Center.” Whoa, faith, morality and ethics, the trifecta against leftist, those things are like Holy Water on their skin. Good to a leftist: accepting se xual deviants and their perversions into your midst so they can infect those with morals while gaining acceptance for their immorality.
Report Post »Soularcher
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 3:28pmWhen you get down to it, gays are angry at God, they think God is intolerant of their perversion. They feel bad as it is, let alone being convicted by God’s word, hence they try to drive it completely out of the world we live in so they can go on in their sin, and bury the guilt and sadness.
Report Post »its_time_to_arrest_our_government
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 4:47pmtell me why you think we need to like you ******* at all? i dont want you around me and i damn sure dont want you around my kids. if i catch you touching one of them they wont ever find your body.
Report Post »B_rad
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:49amWow, such hate. I used to believe the left cornered the market with hate and vitriol while pointing their collective finger at us. Then I saw the comments from many Blaze readers any time homosexuality comes up.
South Park did a really great episode illustrating how ludicrous it is to assume the gay guy will molest your children, never suspecting the straight guy. The fathers all freaked out and got rid of the obviously gay scout leader in favor of a big, tough “straight” guy who immediately took naked pictures of the boys. I realize I’m using a cartoon here, but the point is valid.
By the numbers and by percentage, far more men who consider themselves straight molest children than men who consider themselves gay. To listen to you folks, you would think only boys are molested by men. Never heard of little girls being molested?
That South Park episode ended up with the gay activists winning a court battle to force the scouts to let Big Gay Al be a leader. Al then gave a speech thanking those who supported him but telling them he never wanted to force the scouts to accept him. They have the right to their beliefs and rules in the same way he does. Say what you want about South Park, they often hit it out of the park.
BSA should be able to have whatever rules they like, and the GAY! activists should shut up and start their own or advocate for groups that include all.
And really people, spewing hate and insults should be beneath you.
Report Post »Grey Eagle
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 5:46amYou are on the money.
Report Post »SweetDoug
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:47amCATB!
Good comment!
Tolerance is the refuge of the tyrant. The idea of “tolerance,” paradoxically, in our society, is used as a bully stick, to modify another’s behaviour through the tsk-tsking, and moral bulling, when it fact, the irony is, is that those that are askingdemanding for tolerance, are not being tolerant of the ones whom they wish to be tolerant of their behaviour.
Perhaps if more people understood this double-standard, this BS would stop.
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Report Post »V-V
dontbotherme
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:20amGay groups, such as this, do not want anyone other than themselves, to have the right to practice their faith or act on their own principles. I’m really getting sick of these “innocuous” gay groups trying to force their beliefs on everyone else.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:46amAmen and Amen. Not allowing gays as leaders,etc., is one of the ways scouting has held onto it’s verities with parents.
Report Post »its_time_to_arrest_our_government
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 4:50pmhomos are sick in the head why would we want you anywhere near our kids? trying to force us to put up with you only makes us even more disgusted with you. dont go away mad just go away and stay away!
Report Post »its_time_to_arrest_our_government
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 4:52pmi got an idea for a new merit badge the blanket party merit badge. this is what we did to the homos we found in our troop. they didnt come back.
Report Post »Infidel49
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:19amListen fella, sorry you couldn’t be a Boy Scout because it is only for boys. I know you wanted to be a boy, but you aren’t, so get over life’s little disappointments and move on. Maybe you should start your own group, call it the he/she’s of America. You even have a celeb who can be your spokeswhatever, Chaz. It can teach your group of ****/lezbo’s or whatever how to dance. You can have special nights called twisted nights where the girls dress like boys and the boys can wear dresses. If you don’t like that idea you can shut your piehole and go away.
Report Post »TxSon
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:17amGays obviously don’t have any problem organizing. Organize your own youth groups and leave the Boy Scouts alone. They are a private organization with the right to operate as they choose.
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:29am“They” have tried several times to start their own competing organization, but the only supporters these groups attract tend to not have children to join these groups.
If the Boy Scouts are the NFL, these “alternative” youth organizations are either the stadium football league ot the lingerie football league.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:54am@Beekeeper
Lingerie. Definitely, lingerie.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:13amI know; How about DEVOUT Christians JOIN homosexual clubs and foist our views upon your groups?
Report Post »Enjoy your lgbmt clubs and we will enjoy ours.
BlackCrow
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:09amThose “people”(I use the term loosely) who scream diversity are the most narrow minded bigots out there. If you disagree with them you are automatically a hate monger. Well fine. I don’t give a rats rear what you think about me!
Report Post »huberto
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:07amThe gays may have the right to speak their disapproval of the speaker- but the BSA has the right to not listen. If gays don’t like it- go somewhere else. People are getting very weary of being shouted at by liberal groups.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:06amThey have a long history of gays working hard to infiltrate their group and molest young boys, it’s a constant battle everyone in the entire organization has to deal with.
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:33amHomosexuality Pedophilia
Report Post »momrules
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:06amMilitant homosexuals will not be happy until they have infiltrated all groups, all organizations. They use the court system as a weapon to any that oppose them just as the militant atheist does.
Report Post »I am well and truly sick of them.
Stick to your principles Boy Scouts. Just keep saying no to them.
Just in time
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:04amMaybe the leaders of the BSA are trying to protect the boys from Pediphiles. Why is it hate speech to disagree with someone elses sexual preference. And not hate speech when you disagree with someones elses religious preference?
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:04amIt’s pathetic that this tribe of malcontents continue to define themselves by their sexual antics. WE DON’T CARE. But you continuously describe yourselves as “gay this” and “gay that”… it seems almost dehumanizing to me. My God, how awful it must be to first and foremost identify yourself by what you do with your sex organs and orifices. You truly have to be a shallow human being to not see beyond (and allow others to see beyond) your prurient behavior. Grow the hell up. No one wants to tolerate mewling “adults” and bully brigades who believe life revolves around their nether regions and anomalous behavior. Have your own little meet and greet (and whatever is you do in your gatherings) and devise your next scheme to force the world to adapt to you…. because that’s mature.
Report Post »Isn’t “angry gay” laughably redundant?
The American
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:03amI don’t know what their problem is, send your gay boys camping with an established organization like NAMBLA, they are more than willing to accept you!
Report Post »There problem solved!
FEISTY
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 8:59amShut up and stay home then. Every freaking thing is an excuse to foist your personal belief system on everyone else. Stop judging and live your own life.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 8:58amIf, these “people” do not like it? Start your own group, I am sure that parents would come in droves to drop their children into the care and protection of the Gay “troop leaders”?? THIS, is BS and the gay community brings hate to them by protesting these things to FORCE their lifestyles onto EVERYONE!!!! To each their own until they become a “movement”!!!!!
Report Post »And I Say
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:06amdido
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:10amOutstanding post Cemerius. I bet we are all thinking of some really crazy names for a gay scout group. There has to be some good ones out there….I’ll start it off..how about F.S.A.
Report Post »compnor1138
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:36amAlso Ditto;
As an Eagle Scout myself, I was raised in a family that valued honor and integrity, which it was only natural to be involved in an organization FOUNDED and strongly based on these principals. Today apparently it is wrong to “brainwash” kids in the 100 year old tradition of encouraging success.
I too would say that dissenting views should just start their own movement, but the Girl Scouts already beat them to the punch. Heck, I’m sure they would be glad to take any of the homosexual deviants into their fold since they seem to have no problem with transgenders, lesbians, and the morally confused – the only reason the Girl Scouts are still “legitimate” is because they have cookies.
Report Post »ConservativeQtee
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 8:57amThis gay agenda is making me sick. Just be gay and shut up already. Nobody cares.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 8:56amI stopped buying Levi’s products years ago, when they announced they weren‘t going to donate to BSA anymore because of their ’non-inclusive’ policies towards gays. Why don’t the gays start their own version of scouting and leave the Boy Scouts alone?
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 8:56amI think clubs should be able to make their own rules about membership. If others are unhappy they can form their own club and exclude whomever they wish. I personally feel that Boy Scouts is a thing of the past…..for a previous generation and not for today. There are just too many risks involved with joining. I’d prefer to camp as a family and teach as a family and do not trust that the people joining these groups should have that much access to my child, period. This is a time of distrust. I also feel the family time is better and the time spent bonding with one own’s family is better than with a bunch of strangers who group together under the Boy Scouts. Trust of that group for me is an issue. It is iron that parents of a gay boy would want their son included when I don’t feel I would want my son included just shows that everyone is coming from a different place now. The vetting process for the boy scouts is not that good.
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:03amWhat is that gay kid missing out on …really?! Getting to camp with a bunch of strangers, with bugs and a bunch of strangers who only care about their own kid, wait in line to shoot a bb gun at a target one time and wait in line to eat sour milk and hot dogs sitting in disgusting water? Wow…such fun! Or let’s compete in pinewood derby, shall we? Whoopee! The Boy Scouts are a thing of the past for people who think it is better than it is.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:10amI don’t know about scouts everywhere, but here we have a rule that at least one parent has to come with their child to every meeting, heck we even let brothers and sisters of scouts tag along.
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:40amOddly, the anti-scout groups find much to celebrate in the scouting organization, the skills the boys learn are tools that will serve them the rest of their life.
To take but one example, the point of a pinewood derby is not to race wooden cars, it is to get the cub scout (who is in elementary school) to take on a project, design a car, construct it themselves, compete against their peers (learning about winning and losing), learn a bit about physics, AND have an event that brings the family together for an afternoon with other families.
Scouting builds self-confidence and self-reliance, and teaches leadrship skills and encourages involvement in the community…
Report Post »moodtd01
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:20amJujubee,
Report Post »Although I would agree that many troops are not as adventurous as others. I can tell you personally that the troop I am part of does not go to very many of the organized events (as they are kind of lame mostly). As an army infantry veteran myself, and the other Scoutmaster was in scouts for 12 years where they went camping, backpacking, mountainclimbing etc, once a month, I can tell you that we do not just take the boys out and teach them nothing. Just 2 weeks ago we took the boys on a 5 mile land navigation hike. It was a high of 35 degrees, with pretty stiff winds (most people would stay at home). When we got to the site we set the map on the table, told each boy to find a point of interest about 1/2 mile from the last one, draw a line, shoot an azimuth, and then each boy led us to their point. Along the way we practiced fire building (no matches or lighters), emergency shelter building, and emergency first aid. Each one of the boys, who had never actually land navigated before, brought us to within 100 yards from the spot they were supposed to, they all built fires even with the very high winds which made it difficult, they built 2 shelters as the first one was not up to snuff, and they handled a case of “hypothermia” quite well. They learned and performed many skills, worked as a team, learned leadership skills, and had a great time. I guess scouting is irrelevant in our popular culture however, American society will be bettered by these young men
burnteye86
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 8:52amClair Cook complains that “They ( the Boy Scouts) don’t allow all children and all families to take part in the wonderful things they allow and provide for people. Well,Clair, if I can call you Clair, What have you done to provide “wonderful” things and activities for boys? Is someone stopping you from forming a group? or are you just too lazy and want others to form groups that you can then hijack? Hmmm?
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 8:51am.
Report Post »If they are so Angry all the time, why do they call themselves Gay?……….
Gonzo
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 8:58amWhat bugs me more is that they use the rainbow as their symbol. The rainbow is the symbol of a covenant God mad with man. By using that symbol they mock God. Tell me that’s not demonic.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:33amI don’t know about anyone else but I refuse to call them gay. I call them homosexuals.
Report Post »TMink
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 8:51amThe BSA is a private organization. If they wish to accept the moral position that homosexuality is wrong they have every right to. Let the folks who want a gay BSA form their own. Heck, they can REQUIRE that their members (perhaps I should have chosen another word) be as gay as possible. They could refuse to allow bisexual teens to join!
NEWS ALERT!!!! Many people in the world accept that homosexuality is sinful and to be avoided.
Trey
Report Post »DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 8:49amGay and lesbians need to start their own groups. What did Michelle Obama say?
“We’re going to have to make sacrifices, we’re going to have to change our conversation, we’re going to have to change our traditions, our history and we’re going to have to move to a different place.”
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 8:49amIf you people want gay scouting, create your own group. Don’t tell the B.S. of A. how to run their organization. Democrats nationwide will want to enroll their kids in Gay Scouts. They can earn merit badges in decorating, hair styling, fashion consulting, floral arrangement etc. It’ll be great.
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 8:55amIf Christian kids decided to join a gay group like that with the intent of sharing their faith with them, they would be discriminated against and kicked out.
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:11amGonzo, let the gays have the whole d*mn Boy Scouts. Then start a new club and exclude them again and watch how they will want to be in the new club.
Report Post »They want to be included into whatever they think they are missing out on. Maybe they should switch to hetersexual?
The Boy Scouts s*ck. They can take the whole thing over. Who cares!
oldguy49
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 8:46amI for one do not want my kids going camping with gays
Report Post »txwheels
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 8:46amYou know what? It’s time the q ueers set down and shut up! It’s getting REAL old hearing about their agenda and screwed up lifestyle. They are nothing more than an abomination!
Report Post »Arc
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 8:45am“They don’t allow all children and all families to take part in the wonderful things they allow and provide for people.”
Ms Cook, what a convoluted comment. Within the span of 7 ( seven ) words, you not only shot yourself in the foot, you blew your complete leg off.
Back up, Regroup and Try Again.
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