5/31/2013 - The Southern Baptist Convention, the countrys largest Protestant denomination, will soon urge its 45,000 congregations and 16 million members to cut ties with the Scouts, according to church leaders. The denomination will vote on nonbinding but influential resolutions during a convention June 11-12 in Houston. Theres a 100% chance that there will be a resolution about disaffiliation at the convention, said Richard Land, the longtime head of the Southern Baptists Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and a 100% chance that 99% of people will vote for it. Southern Baptists are going to be leaving the Boy Scouts en masse. Roger Sing Oldham, a spokesman for the Southern Baptist Convention, emphasized that local congregations make their own decision on the Scouts.
If anyone is still listening on this matter, there is an embedded YouTube video of Exxon-Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson talking about the 5/23/2013 vote to permit open homosexual youth into the BSA effective 1/01/2014. Tillerson was the BSA National (volunteer) President from 2010-2012. He was heavily involved in making this membership resolution pass.
http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2013/06/06/tillerson/comment-page-1/
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Leaving is the right solution.
What this article is proposing sends a mixed message that is not acceptable.
What parent can comfortably send their eleven to thirteen year old son to a Boy Scout Camp where there are sixteen to eighteen year old homosexual scouts that hold “rank” over them. Wherever homosexuals congregate, there are abominable crimes against children. Politically incorrect to state but true nevertheless.
Baptist ping.
Mr. Smith,
You are in denial. You are trying to save a relationship that is over. I know, it’s so hard to accept. You need to understand that the BSA is lost forever. It is a beloved sibling who has started using crystal meth and will never stop until he is dead. You can not make someone quit if they don’t want to. And the BSA leaders do not want to stop. You can either save yourself by cutting all ties or have your life destroyed one stolen item, one missing dollar, one broken promise after another.
Please start dumping money into your legal defense fund. The first scout you remove will have unlimited funds along with an extremely competent and experienced lawyer supplied by various Progressive organizations. And when you lose you will be forced to pay the scouts legal expenses. I pray that you are not personally bankrupted by this fight.
I’m sorry.
The Boy Scouts need to “Go Galt”.
Someone needs to show these gay agitators, “See....this is why we can’t have nice things”.
Douchebag rationalizing this attack on kids by sex perverts.
OPENLY GAY AND ABSTINENT???????
Are you Freaking kidding me???
Was this a man of the cloth that just tried that line of Bull Crap???
Lame.
This guy is kicking over rocks to find “an emination of a penumbra”.
No sale.
Ok... so lets see if I have got this right...
For decades now, BSA has won court battle after court battle, fending off virtually every single discrimination case that was ever thrown at it... all the way to the supreme court.
What was BSA’s basis for defense in most if not all of those cases??? Was it not right of association??? Freedom to exclude because its a private organization???
So... BSA then votes to admit openly gay members.
What is the defense going to be now??? huh???
What happens when parents start actually discriminating against gay kids by action or even by word?
What happens when some parent tells a gay kid they are wrong to be gay???
I wonder how much cash is going to come out of the fat-cat CEO’s pocket that pushed this vote through when the courts finally turn on the BSA because of this?
Profoundly naive. Any time a homosexual is not admitted or is expelled for “acting out,” there will immediately be a civil rights suit filed alleging “discrimination.” BSA gave up their ability to defend against such suits by compromising their beliefs. Further, troops are not going to able to afford the legal fees to defend against this. Bottom line is no one is going to get thrown out of the Scouts for improper conduct.
The stage is now set for a complete homosexual takeover of the Scouts, something they have wanted to do for many years. The only response is for folks to walk out and say they want nothing to do with BSA because they have endorsed the homosexual agenda.
So they can stay in, abstinent, until they “act out.” And what about the victim of their acting out? Ain’t gonna work. Ask the Catholic Church (and I’m Catholic).
If the ABS didn't see anything wrong in what the BSA did why is this turning a negative into a positive? Truth is they know exactly what it means and purposely are ignoring the issue for whatever reason. I'd not only leave the BSA but the ABS.
Remember when homos "just wanted to be left alone"?
Unfortunately, Mr. Smith, that interpretation was true before the abominable change in language. With the acceptance of openly gay scouts, the BSA has accomplished nothing except to open the door to immoral behavior. The term "morally straight" now has an asterisk.
With the top leadership committing heresy by supporting a transient popular culture, the scouts are past their high water mark as a righteous organization. But, of course, the BSA leadership has appeased the current administration, by compromising its principles.