Posted on 05/24/2015 5:34:53 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
The soul of a bureaucrat
Robert Gates has long been surrounded by men in uniform, first as secretary of defense, now as president of the Boy Scouts of America. His time at DoD coincided with the repeal of the dont ask, dont tell policy on homosexual soldiers a repeal effectively imposed by the courts and as the leader of the Boy Scouts he is calling for a repeal of that organizations policy banning homosexual adults from serving as troop leaders or in other leadership roles.
Gates, whose likeness appears in Websters with the entry for bureaucrat, says that the Boy Scouts policy on homosexuals is unsustainable. He warns that attempting to maintain it would mean the end of us as a national movement. This sentiment expresses a great deal of what is wrong with the leadership culture of the United States.
Not because Gates is taking a friendlier attitude toward homosexuals than his predecessors have. There is, in fact, an excellent moral argument to be made for the inclusion of homosexual adults in leadership positions within scouting but Gates is not making that argument.
Instead, he argues from organizational self-interest never mind if it is right or wrong, the policy puts Scouting Inc. in a tough position, so best to abandon it. Duty to God and country? To heck with that management always has its own priorities.
Depending on your point of view, Gates is either doing the wrong thing for the wrong reason or doing the right thing for the wrong reason.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
The same mob that is demanding the Boy Scouts succumb to homosexual leaders will be demanding that the Boy Scouts be fined, jailed and closed down, due to the scandals caused by those homosexual leaders.
It’s very difficult for me to believe that one so passionate on a position doesn’t hold to it himself.
I wouldn’t want a son of mine anywhere near this guy.
The Scouts are over.
The BSA very wisely, long ago, excluded homosexuals as leaders, and instituted a “two-adult rule” to prevent homosexual seduction on outings.
It did this because of Sandusky-type scandals perpetrated by homosexual pederasts.
Now, they will have to learn it all again.
And finally, the last old-guard bunker to fall: the Boy Scouts, completing the cycle of government-approved sodomite corruption. For a century the Scouts were morally straight? According to whose definition of straight? So why shouldnt adult homosexual Scout leaders share tents with teenagers in our brave new world? Dont be a homophobe, we were told. Each child can make his or her own free choice about their gender identity, but now with helpful adult mentors to guide them along the formerly forbidden paths.
If it feels good, do it. Or have it done to you. Or even do it unto the little children. Tommy wants to become Tomasina before heading to kindergarten? Her brave new mommy agrees? A government-provided surgeon will perform the gender reassignment operation. And if kindergarten isnt soon enough to put the kids on the unrepressed road to gender identification, then start them on Heather Has Two Mommies and Prince and Prince cartoon books in the government-subsidized day care centers.
Smiling experts assured us that we were merely throwing off the shackles of our repressed sexualities. Dissent is hate, and hate is not tolerated around here, mister, so shut up and get with the program. Well, I couldnt get with the program, so I quit my public high school job. As a world history teacher, moving from a public school to a Christian academy (at less pay and fewer benefits) gave me a couple more years of insulation from the social wreckage cascading down.
I kept looking up for the big asteroid, but we didnt need God to smite us from outer space. In the end, we smote ourselves with our hubris, believing that we were replacing Gods wisdom with our own. The proud decadence and in-your-face cultural perversions didnt cause the Rupture, but they were surely flashing red signs warning that the end was near.
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BEFORE:
Boy Scout Oath or Promise
On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.
AFTER
Boy Scout Oath or Promise
On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty to God my own god and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong and mentally awake. and morally straight.
Just be straight with the people as to what you are going to accomplish by allowing homosexual predators in to the Scouting organization. State to the people that the Bible is an ancient historical relic that is no longer applicable. The God of the Bible does not exist. The Scouting organization will follow their own "moral code." This "new code" has nothing to do with the God of the Bible. Each Scout leader and organization can "follow their heart" AS LONG AS it does not include the Christian Bible in regards to sodomy or other "homophobic" areas.
The BSA program is supported by businesses and the orders from corporate America as evidenced in Arizona in 2014 when Jan Brewer vetoed religious freedom and this year’s cave ins from Mike Pence (IN) and Asa Hutchinson (AR) are pretty clear.
Conform or else.........
I was a leader in the BSA program and went to BSA leadership programs that were always held at the large businesses in my community. My Explorer post was supported by the richest man in town, a billionaire.
More evidence of how the corporate elites run our society and our major political parties.
More evidence we need a UKIP style third party in the United States.
“There is, in fact, an excellent moral argument to be made for the inclusion of homosexual adults in leadership positions within scouting...”
I stopped reading at that exact point. No need to read any further. Anyone who would say something as ignorant as that needs to be avoided.
That there are priorities above institutional self-interest is a proposition entirely alien to the bureaucratic soul, and Gatess tenure at the Pentagon is testament to that. During his confirmation hearings, Gates declined even to venture an opinion as to whether the United States was winning or losing the war in Iraq, something that was of acute interest in 2006. More precisely, he took an absurd position that the United States was neither winning nor losing at this point, as though he were overseeing Schrödingers army. Concerning the position of General Peter Pace, Gates declined to support his re-nomination as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, not because he did not think he was the best man for the job but because, as he explained at the time, he thought that a contentious confirmation hearing would be bad for the organization. He urges Congress to repeal dont ask, dont tell not because he came to believe the policy defective but in order to permit the military to implement changes on its own terms rather than on a judges schedule. The reckless withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq which has borne poison fruit in the form of the so-called Islamic State was overseen by Gates, whose main concern in that affair seems to have been remaining in the good graces of his masters, whether George W. Bush or Barack Obama.
There is only ONE reason to promote homosexual leadership in the Scouting ranks and that is to “scout” out recruits and MOLEST our sons.
>http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2014/07/diversity-destruction.html<
...Diversity is an anti-religion, and anti-ideology, a nepotism which promotes everything except one’s own family.
Diversity therefore equals the destruction of any and all religions and of all positive ideologies.
Because Diversity can only be destructive: whatever IS is insufficiently or inexactly diverse.
Whatever IS must therefore be destroyed in order to make it MORE Diverse.
And there is no conceivable or measurable end to it. Yesterday’s Diversity is today’s intolerable lack of Diversity.
Diversity is the destruction of Good; and it is the destruction of all types of Good - however defined. All are chewed up and spat out by Diversity.
Diversity is the promotion of chaos by the destruction of Good; and then there-naming of chaos as Good.
On my honor, maybe, I will try
To do my duty to God as I define him or her and my government
and to obey all the government approved Scout Suggestions ;
To help other people at all times except the racist haters who listen to Rush;
To keep myself physically attractive, mentally tolerant and morally straight or gay. Or Transgendered. Whatever.
Boy Scouting is so over.
Me too. That exact same line.
The word “Other” is missing in the title before the word “Gays” which by the way should be “Queers”.
Our family got involved with Scouting 8 years ago. We saw it as not only something good for our kids, but as an opportunity to be a positive influence on kids that might not have it at home. In 2013 when the policy was changed for the youth we almost walked away, but realized if we were in it for the youth we needed to stay. But with the announcement by Gates we’re staying just long enough for our youngest to finish his Eagle project and 2 merit badges. It was / is a sad day but now that the Boy Scouts have taken this step down this path their days are numbered.
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Given the experience of the Catholic Church and Penn State in these situations, anyone continuing to advocate that the BSA allow homosexual scoutmasters is either a drooling moron/useful idiot of an advocate of child molestation.
And what exacly would that moral argument be?
Whatever it is, I'm probably not buying it.
Eagle Scout 1969
Adult Scouter 1996-2010
I have a nephew who has been in Scouting since he was a little guy (he’s now 13). I fear for him and have talked to my brother about it and he does go on all the camping trips and participates in activities with my nephew, so that is some comfort. I will be glad once my nephew is no longer in Scouting - breaks my heart to say it because it’s been an important part of a lot of lives until the sodomites made it a target and moral cowardice has prevailed.
You need not fear...... in actuality, there are no queer scouts
Your nephew will benefit far more from scouting than he will from your meddling
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