Posted on 06/21/2013 6:18:47 AM PDT by MacNaughton
Bishop Kee Sloan, head of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, has posted a letter asking churches to sponsor Boy Scout troops. In apparent response to the Southern Baptist Convention's resolution opposing the Boy Scouts' decision to accept openly gay scouts, Sloan wants Episcopal churches to step forward to host troops that may need a meeting place.
Southern Baptist Convention President Fred Luter said while in Birmingham last weekend that his church, Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, plans to stop hosting its Boy Scout troop.
First Baptist Church of Pelham and First Baptist Church of Helena have also announced plans to stop hosting Boy Scout troops.
Sloan posted the following statement on the web site of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama:
"Recently the leadership of another denomination has decided to distance that denomination from the Boy Scouts of America, in response to the national BSA structure's decision about involving or including people who are homosexual. I do not want to intrude into another institution's controversies or difficulties - either that denomination's or the Scout's - we have enough to deal with on our own. But it's boys and young men who will be most affected by this decision, as their Boy Scout Troops might well be turned away from the local church that has been sponsoring them, and I do want for us to respond to that as appropriate. I am asking you to be mindful of the Boy Scout Troops in your community, especially those who will no longer be able to meet and have some of their activities in some of the churches. I am asking that our parishes extend our Lord's hospitality, and consider sponsoring a Boy Scout Troop."
"As clearly as I can I want to say and I want you to be able to say that I am not at all interested in criticizing another denomination of our Lord's one holy catholic and apostolic Church; I am not at all interested in taking a side in the ongoing argument about sexuality in the Scouting movement. I am interested in extending hospitality, as one institution torn by this controversy to another, to the boys and young men of the Boy Scouts of America, and to the adults who give their time and energy to work with them."
And, as someone has pointed out above, it is the height of irresponsibility to send your children to an organization that promotes sexual deviancy.
Salvation Army is STILL a Christian organization.
I view AA as a starting point.
I view AA as a starting point, getting those addicted on the road to recovery.
It is still a Christian organization, but those who accept United Way money in my area are not allowed to mention JESUS CHRIST except during Sunday services.
If a Church allows a gay Ministry of course they would sponsor a gay Boy Scout.
More targets.
Your opinion and your opinion only.
Got to remember that, when a disaster takes place, the Salvation Army is the first or among the first to be at the scene, even before the local churches.
Why not use Episcopal churches for boy scouts and meetings? According to attendance figures, they aren’t using them for anything else...
The only thing holding many of these churches together are endowments and inheritances from many years ago, when people left the church money because they actually STOOD for Christianity. They have been bleeding members ever since.
“Your opinion and your opinion only.”
Have you ever applied for United Way funding?
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That's what I like about FR. I learn something every day.
by their vote they left us, not the other way round. let them retake the vote.
Yet the term “believing in a higher power” is part of AA.
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Some people in AA make up their own conception of God, which is NOT the Almighty God. It’s a false god.
Maybe it’s Baal.
After the 2012 TEC General Convention where the resolution to develop homosexual marriage rites was passed, this particular bishop said that his diocese would essentially ease into it. Not saying it hasn't started in AL, but I haven't heard that it has.
Great recruiting tool for both pedophiles and church members! No wonder a homosexual church like TEC is going for it.
I don’t give to United Way. I give to the Salvation Army instead. And i make it clear every time the United Way tries to strongarm me.
Salvation Army will not accept United Way money, at least here.
Episcopagan. I’m not surprised in the least.
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