The Boy Scouts is still a good organization for kids. It seems a shame that the kids are going to lose out because of the decisions made by adults. I don’t see why adults can’t just man up, accept the changes and continue with what they believe in and give the kids a chance. I really doubt every pack is going to be inundated with gay kids.
Our youth needs to know what real scouting is about and outdoor skills, skills that many will not have a chance to expeience without the scouts. Our kids should see their adult leaders leading, not throwing in the towel.
The big city ones surely will. And the kids who will lose out in those situations will be the vulnerable urban poor A-A children whom groups like Liberty Council in Philadelphia have been trying to reach.
Sure, and why let a little homosex with the children interfere with an otherwise great camping trip? /s
I wouldn't want these sick faggots anywhere near my kids! Our youth needs to know what real scouting is about and outdoor skills, skills that many will not have a chance to expeience without the scouts. Our kids should see their adult leaders leading, not throwing in the towel.
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You cannot be serious!
The BSA have essentially given their approval of this perverted lifestyle. Whether a particular BSA chapter or troop endorses it is beside the point. The BSA are now a pro-homosexual organization. Supporting it in any way, shape, or form is now an endorsement of this sick lifestyle.
I wouldn't want my kids anywhere near these sick faggots...period!
Stick a fork in BSA, they are done!
As an Eagle Scout who has purposely kept my children out of Scouting this decision is the final death knell for the BSA.
20 years ago scouting really ceased to be the same organization I grew up with they watered down the rank requirements and have gone way too far away from the original ideals of scouting.
God, Family and Country! That is what scouting was, not camping and outdoor activities. Yes they are good skills to know, however, those activities were designed to create rugged men from little boys. To provide them with firm moral leadership and to create future leaders. They were not designed for the experience but to mold young men.
To paraphrase Jesus Christ - “A little yeast will affect the whole loaf”.
Why try to gain membership into an organization that rejects those who don’t adhere to the agreed to code? The answer is to infect it with corrupt thinking.
So how many gay kids will it take to infect the whole troop? The entire organization?
You’re brave to say that, right now! I believe for awhile there won’t be a rush. Also, there are a good many solid citizens leading them on a troop and council level; they’re going to be on the watch for any suspicious behavior. There’s also older boys who might be worried about the younger ones, and will be on the watch for anyone attempting any funny business toward them!
What I’m concerned about, and I’ve seen others express is-that the forces that pushed all of this are not going to be satisfied with this! They’re not going to be happy with this small victory, they’ll want more! Just like they did with the military with DADT, they’ll push further and want more!
They then came up with the worst possible policy as it is partially inclusive. That is not going to hold up in court. They also ostracized 70% of the local troops as they are sponsored by conservative religious organizations. Many will leave now, many more will leave in a few years when this poorly worded and misguided policy is over turned by court order requiring that they OK Openly Gay leaders.
You are simply showing your legal and moral ignorance when you claim that adult leaders should man up and accept the lie that active, open homosexuals can be morally straight.
Go back to NAMBLA where you obviously came from!
You show a lack of understanding on what the BSA has just voted on.
The BSA will now present homosexuality as normal. It will be taught as normal in the merit badges - Family Life specifically. This is not a move of tolerance, it is a move of affirmation.
By this action the BSA has lost all legal grounds to limit its membership under the freedom of association clauses.
The Scout Oath and Law, are very specific. This decision guts them. My son said it best.... the only way to obey the Scout Oath and Scout Law now is to leave Scouting.
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Caving in to the homo activists and sending kids to the BSA knowing what their new agenda has become WOULD be throwing in the towel.
That is the longest comment just about that stuartc has ever made. He must have felt very strongly that faggots belong in the Boy Scouts.
Good riddance!
“accept the changes”
Maybe when you have to sleep in a tent, be lead into the woods, or succumb to the authority of a homosexual then you can say the kids must accept sodomy as a way of life.
See ya, long timer... sometimes a little less “diversity” on FR is a good thing.
No, the organization is not good enough for ANY child.
Just listen to the Pres of BSA talking about their “Duty to God”, and having to do this because of that, etc. They are doomed.
Bye bye BSA, fall on the way down.
The men at the corporate level are like the English bishops at the time of Henru VIII: they are so invested in the good graces of the elites who fund them that they can only do their master’s bidding.
“Our youth needs to know what real scouting is about and outdoor skills, skills that many will not have a chance to expeience without the scouts. Our kids should see their adult leaders leading, not throwing in the towel.”
What OUR KIDS need to REALLY know is that Homosexual conduct is just plain wrong....always has been and always will be. The Boy Scouts was about real values, not camping.
If you don’t understand that...you are part of the problem. The compromisers, like you, are allowing this country to be destroyed.
No, better to disban the BSA, than support its corrupted form. Besiders, other organizations with true conservative moral values will fill in the gap.
Because it is no longer what we believe in. Plus that was only the beginning. The BSA will keep moving farther and farther into perversion and leftism. It is inevitable (see Girl Scouts).