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Scouts Consider Breaking Camp with Tradition
Family Research Council ^ | January 29, 2013 | Family Research Council

Posted on 01/29/2013 3:46:14 PM PST by fwdude

January 29, 2013 - Tuesday

For 103 years, the mission of the Boy Scouts has been "to prepare young people to make ethical choices." Unfortunately, the organization's leadership seems less inclined to make those same choices themselves, as rumors swirl that the Board is on the verge of reversing its longtime policy on homosexuality. To most parents, the news that the Scouts were even considering a change is a shock. After all, it was just seven months ago that the same spokesman told reporters that, after a two-year review, a special committee had unanimously recommended keeping the ban. "The vast majority of parents," Deron Smith had explained, "value their right to address issues of same-sex orientation within their family... at the appropriate time and right setting."

Now, suddenly, after decades of withstanding pressure, lost sponsors, and evictions, the Boy Scouts are a Board meeting away from destroying a century-old legacy of courage in exchange for weak-kneed compromise that pleases no one. According to the press release yesterday, the BSA would peel away the national prohibition on open homosexuality and pass the political hot potato of "sexual inclusion" to individual troops--most of whom won't have the financial means or the will to beat back the coming onslaught. A new policy would only shift the attention to local councils, who would be under unfathomable stress to fall in line with BSA headquarters. And as homosexual activists well know, it will be a lot easier to pick off one council at a time than to take down the entire Boy Scouts of America.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bsa; gaynaziagenda; homosexualagenda
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To: DBeers
In my opinion, the best way to eliminate this rot is to eliminate the leftists, the limp wristed and the spineless from the BSA national board.

Bingo! The source of the rot must be dealt with. But I don't know how. You'd think - hope - that the majority of the board is for traditional scouting values and wouldn't put up with the leftist members but expel them. But maybe it IS all about the money after all.

The best thing that could happen is for the board to overwhelmingly retain the policy and actually build on it. I'm not a big fan of witch hunts, but this is war - every scout organization in the country which allows and affirms homosexual scouts and leaders should have its charter immediately revoked.

It's way past time for stern organizational discipline.

41 posted on 01/29/2013 9:09:36 PM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude
Don't Give Up the Ship! At least not yet. Let the counterattack from conservative Scouters advance. We are the majority in BSA. Yes, we will lose, SWAG ~ 70 councils, out of 290. Make them cancel their council charters. We see this everywhere in Christendom in the USA where denominations are fracturing over homosexuality and fighting over church properties. The classic example is the Episcopal Church. They are imploding, closing churches (and cathedrals) and bleeding members. Let them choke on their properties with no members to keep the lights on. We can prevail. Way too much defeatism at this point.

I greatly admire the FRC in its good fight, but it, and many others posting here on FR, have got it wrong. The membership policy change is directed at the chartering institutions, i.e., the churches which own the BSA charter of the packs and troops. It is not about the councils. Yeah, there about 70 renegade councils located in blue districts that want this change. If they can't live without it, close these council offices. The local United Way chapters are the main source of funds in these councils, and they have already turned against BSA.

Remember, 90%+ of a boy's involvement in Scouting is at the unit level. Scouting was always designed to work at the unit level. It can continue but we have to work our way through the shock of betrayal by the chief scout executive and the national executive board.

Burn up the phone/e-mail with your council and national. The executive boards of the conservative councils should be mounting a strategy to counterattack the national executive board. It would be a shame to lose the 4 national high adventure bases in a divorce, but you can be assured if all conservatives leave BSA, they will have to close the high adventure bases. There aren't enough youths in the units chartered to the progressive churches to keep these properties operating.

We must demand the heads of the CSE and the rogue executive board members on pikes!

42 posted on 01/29/2013 9:17:07 PM PST by MacNaughton
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To: Ben Mugged

I would wait at least until they make their ruling, so that the protest might be clearly understood as a result, and not spun by the evil leftist to support their side.

But i agree If the organization can’t stand for moral prinsables it should fall for it stands for nothing.

If theses groups that have been persecuting the scouts had a real foundation they would form other competing youth groups. But they don’t because they can’t. The people who support them have no moral foundation at all and thus no inclination to have their children learn one.


43 posted on 01/29/2013 9:57:38 PM PST by Monorprise
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To: MacNaughton

The problem is, the barbarians DON’T MIND imploding the institutions they invade. In a way, that’s one of their goals.


44 posted on 01/30/2013 7:19:16 AM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: MacNaughton

The problem is, the barbarians DON’T MIND imploding the institutions they invade. In a way, that’s one of their goals.


45 posted on 01/30/2013 7:20:23 AM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude

The new BSA will become the Brown-shirted SA to fulfill Obama’s dream of the National Civilian Security Force he so desires!


46 posted on 01/30/2013 3:13:24 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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