i hope your Troop doesn't get snared by this insanity
Posted on 03/08/2014 3:55:34 PM PST by Graybeard58
ORLANDO, Fla. (BP) -- The Walt Disney Company is playing into the hands of Boy Scouts of America by cutting donations to BSA, giving the Scouts greater public leverage to accept gay leaders, Atlanta area pastor Ernest Easley said today (March 7).
Disney in February joined a growing list of companies who have cut financial support to BSA because of the Scouts' ban on openly gay leaders. Such pressure will make it easier for BSA to open Scout leadership to gay men, said Easley, pastor of Roswell Street Baptist Church and chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.
"Walt Disney has [apparently] done," what the Boy Scouts wanted, Easley told Baptist Press. "They've done them a favor in putting more pressure out there for the Scouts to come back later on and say, 'Here's the deal. Walt Disney's cut us.... We have no choice than to let the [gay] men be part of this.'"
BSA voted last May to allow openly gay youths to become Scouts beginning this year, but retained a Scout prohibition on gay leaders that survived a 2000 Supreme Court challenge. BSA's national membership has dropped 6 percent in the past year, although the group doesn't attribute the numbers to the policy change.
"I think it's part of [the Boy Scouts] strategy," Easley said. "... Why open the door to it? They knew that in May it was such a hot issue that they could not go all the way and let [gay] men be leaders in that organization. But they knew it was a matter of time."
Disney does not give direct donations to the Scouts, but Disney's VoluntEARS program allows its employees to do volunteer work in exchange for cash donations to the charities of their choice. Employees taking part in the VoluntEARS program will no longer be able to submit the funds to BSA, Disney said Feb. 28. The change goes into effect in January 2015.
Disney did not release any data to show how much money has gone to the Scouts through the VoluntEARS program. But Easley, whose church stopped hosting Scout troop meetings because of the inclusion of gay Scouts, said the issue is about promoting the inclusion of gay Scout leaders, not about money.
"I don't really think it's a money issue. I think it's the principle of it," Easley said. "I think that you're going to continue seeing an effort from individuals and corporations to pressure them into taking the final step that [BSA] started in May of allowing homosexuals to be adult leaders in their organization.
"You're going to have legislation, you're going to have corporations, you're going to have influential individuals continuing to put pressure on them," Easley said. "And my guess is as I said last year, it's going to happen. I think they want it to happen, the Scouts."
Companies that have cut funding to BSA because it excludes gay leaders are Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar, Major League Soccer, Merck, Intel and UPS, said Scouts for Equality, a national group fighting for the inclusion of gay Scout leaders. Scouts for Equality applauded Disney.
"We're never happy to see Scouting suffer as a result of the BSA's anti-gay policy, but Disney made the right decision to withhold support until Scouting is fully inclusive," said Eagle Scout and Scouts for Equality co-founder Zach Wahls, the son of two lesbian parents. "Scouts for Equality will continue to advocate for a fully inclusive membership policy, to help build a stronger Scouting community that is eligible for the support of Corporate America."
Other moves in the fight to open Scouting to gay leaders include the anticipated litigious fight on behalf of Pascal Tessier, a gay 17-year-old Maryland boy who in February was awarded Eagle Scout status, the highest ranking. At 18, he will be ineligible for Scout participation.
"On my 18th birthday, I'm planning on applying to be an adult leader for the Boy Scouts so that we push the issue," Tessier has said.
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” V.I. Lenin
“Every religious idea, every idea of God, every flirting with the idea of God, is unutterable vileness of the most dangerous kind, ‘contagion’ of the most abominable kind.” V.I. Lenin
Of course they are. Did anybody expect them to NOT queer the entire organization.
What a shame. Another national treasure destroyed by the queers.
Five years from now it will be 10% of its original size.
“I can see a time where the Boy Scouts will be ONLY homosexuals.”
No. There are not enough homosexuals to do the volunteer work and provide the support that parents do. Homosexuals don’t have children. They want families to continue to support the BSA and the continue to volunteer and to fund the BSA. They want to use it to indoctrinate the sons of good Americans into homosexuality and other leftist principles.
Trail Life USA is trying.
“Oh, Oh, include me! I stick my penis other men’s anuses. I demand to be included.”
Got a newsflash for you homosexuals. If you tell me, I will discriminate.
Along with pledge of allegience, we recited the oath and law before every meeting
i hope your Troop doesn't get snared by this insanity
Well, then it is now “good” for homosexual men to recruit Boy Scouts into their ranks.
We need to tke back the language....they aren’t “gay.” They are HOMOsexual. Always use the correct terminology.
Btw, if heterosexuals are straight then that means homos are crooked.
We could go camping together ..... and swimming together....
What a plan! They’ll have $$, but no boys. Once “gay leadership” is approved, the homos will come out of the woodwork to lead troops and sue if they’re denied. And that will be the end of the Boy Scouts as we know it. The only ones left will be prospective queers or poor kids whose parents have no trouble sacrificing them at the altar of political correctness. Do such parents exist? Sure. Picture the type of parent who let their son sleep over at Michael Jackson’s Neverland.
I’m reminiscing from 50 some years ago
Gay leadership.
Of the Boy Scouts...
That’s just f***in’ brilliant, America, you stupid, idiot country.
Disney is all about forcing sodomy?
Mitt Romney, President Obama affirm support for gay Boy Scout leaders
Compiled by Eric Schulzke, Deseret News
Published: Thursday, Aug. 9 2012 1:26 p.m. MD
Why not let girls in the troops, and let women lead? There’s not longer any point in gender isolation when the BSA is advancing the cause of cuckers.
i am soooo glad we never had this crap to deal with back then
I am glad to see you pointing out the fact that we must always say homosexual. NEVER gay..... Reclaiming the language Is something we must start doing. The word Gay is a good word and the Rainbow is ours!
What parent in his right mind would sign up their 9 year old son into an association that puts fags in command?
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