Anybody here on FR a member of the 1400 person National Council who’ll be voting on this in May or know someone who is? Any way we can find out who is?
Agreed.
This is something on which Free Republic could do a lot of good. Let's find the national council representatives and lobby, as well as helping others lobby.
A significant number of Boy Scout troops are connected with churches. As much as I hate to admit it, the Mormons, who use Scouting as their youth organization, could be very helpful. I'm pinging Jeff Head, a longtime Mormon Freeper, to see if he has any specific advice on ways the LDS could help fight the homosexual agenda in Scouting.
I'm no friend to Mormonism, but on this point regarding homosexuality and Scouting, I think the LDS, evangelical Protestants, traditional Roman Catholics and secular conservatives are on the same side.
A final point: I'm not so sure the decision to postpone the vote was a bad decision. As Freepers, we routinely say we need to let the grassroots make key decisions, and have bottom-up input rather than top-down hierarchies. Scouting did just that -- rather than making a snap decision, they let the broadest representative assembly of Scouting make this decision, and gave them enough time to debate. That seems reasonable to me.