Whats sad is you would throw a sexually confused kid out of the scouts, who may have tried to hide his problem, when you might have made a positive influence in his life.
Whats sad is you would throw a sexually confused kid out of the scouts, who may have tried to hide his problem, when you might have made a positive influence in his life.
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At the expense of a normal kid who is told to hide his normal behavior? Yeah, I sure would.
Look FRiend. You are mistaken in your belief that you will overcome the homosexual agenda by forcing straights to “go in the closet”.
I don't think sexually confused kids were ever being thrown out of the scouts. Gays had been in the scouts for decades just as they had been in the military for decades. They were there existing with a more or less unspoken, Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.
But once activists began demanding that openly gay scouts be allowed in, or allowed to stay in scouts after they "came out", then that's when the scout's policy became an issue on which a stand had to be taken.
Similar developments brought the gay adult scout leader issue to the US Supreme Court, but that one was always more dangerous and more serious that the few in-the-closet gay scouts who participated.
But all this came to a head because activists demanded the openly gay scouts be allowed to be members, not because in-the-closet kids were being pursued and flushed out by any BSA organizations.
If an individual was sincerely trying to understand themselves, or to come away from such a life style, Scouting has always been an avenue to help there.
Not perfect. Because you have all sorts of instances where it simply does not work out. but that motivation and root desire is a good thing.
This new policy has nothing to do with that. Now, "openly" gay youth, who have no desire, and where there is no expectation to change will be a part of the group. They will be held up as moral examples to younger youth.
Scouting has never been about so-called "sexual orientation" at all. It has been about treaching a young man to be honest, to be "morally straight," and to honor God and country, while learning a lot about the outdoors and countless other interests and doing so in a manner that teaches them to work, to make progress towards relizable and worthwhile goals.
Scouting is being hijacked by people who want it to be about sexual orientation and liberal progressiveness...and they just gave in to a huge part of that. Which is why I cannot, and will not, support them any longer.