Posted on 05/22/2015 11:44:38 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Robert Gates, president of the Boy Scouts of America, told the organization Thursday at its annual national meeting that the time has come to end the ban on homosexual adult leaders in the organization. Citing the wave of cultural changes taking place under threat from homosexual activists, including same-sex marriage edicts in the courts and anti-discrimination laws in several states, Gates insisted, “The status quo in our movement’s membership standards cannot be sustained.”
“The one thing we cannot do is put our heads in the sand and pretend this challenge will go away or abate,” Gates added. “Quite the opposite is happening.”
Translation: Abandon traditional values in the face of pressure from the Rainbow Mafia.
Far from putting “our heads in the sand,” however, defending both traditional Judeo-Christian values and religious liberty itself is called standing on principle.
Gates did not call upon BSA leaders to make a decision on the matter forthwith, but he did caution that if the organization doesn’t change on its own the homosexual lobby and its allies in the courts are likely to force the issue. “If we wait for the courts to act,” he warned, “we could end up with a broad ruling that could forbid any kind of membership standard,” including belief in duty to God and specifically serving the needs of boys.
So he argued for change, leaving it up to individual troops and councils and the churches who sponsor them … for now. However, such a change would only leave troops and councils across the nation susceptible to legal assaults by the Tolerance Brigade.
Gates, a former secretary of defense and CIA director, has a track record of knuckling under to homosexual activists. He was at the helm of the Pentagon for the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in 2010, justifying his actions at the time as an end to discrimination rather than calling the change what it was: an attempt by gays and lesbians to remake yet another institution to suit the needs of a small but vocal fraction of the population.
(On that note, homosexuals and their allies have managed to erroneously convince more than half of Americans that gays make up at least 20% of the population. The true number is more like 3%, but it helps the agenda if it appears there are far more of them.)
When Gates took the job as president of the BSA in 2014, he said he had no intention of allowing openly homosexual scout leaders. The BSA was already reeling from a 2013 decision that summarily dropped the ban on openly homosexual youths. The vote was passed by 60% of the 1,400 delegates in attendance, which may seem like a landslide but is hardly a representative cross-section of the national organization.
Scout membership nationally is already down more than 10% since the last encroachment of gay activists — but the prospect of homosexual leaders overseeing troops will most assuredly lead to a much more significant decline.
Next thing you know, the BSA will be banning water guns. Oh, wait…
Gates is correct that the homosexual lobby isn’t done reshaping the 103-year-old organization to suit its agenda. Scouts for Equality and Human Rights Campaign issued statements after Gates' speech Thursday saying they were heartened by his words, but wanted to see more action.
HRC President Chad Griffin said, “It’s time for BSA leaders to show true leadership and embrace a full national policy of inclusion that does not discriminate against anyone because of who they are.” Unless of course you want to discriminate against someone for their religious beliefs — that’s perfectly acceptable to HRC and other members of the homosexual lobby.
And never mind that the “tolerant” thing to do would be to live and let live. Set up another scouting organization to advance and promote leftist values, and leave the Boy Scouts alone.
Yet proponents of the homosexual agenda have convinced the courts and the Leftmedia to go along with their plan to dismantle every institution in this country for the sake of accommodating, promoting and advancing their own lifestyle. Submit to homosexual leaders, don’t oppose same-sex marriage, bake the cake — whatever the demand, you will comply. Or else. So-called tolerance is a one-way street.
What takes place between consenting adults is one thing, but when did it ever become necessary to force other people to condone that behavior?
“We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be,” Gates declared. Well, the world as it is right now is being reshaped by an aggressive minority who want little more than the power to reshape the culture and its institutions in its own image.
~ Robert Gates,President, BSA, former Sec of Defense and father of the homosexual takeover of the US Armed Forces
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He may want to ask the Catholic Church how that worked out for them first.
Pole smoker
Insane. My Father was a scout, I was a scout - but my son never will be now.
A great institution that provided enormous value ruined to satisfy the perverts.
The current version of the Boy Scouts should be reserved for homosexuals. Normal boys should belong to less dangerous organizations for young men.
The Joy Boy Scouts.
Scouting for Boys of America
They should just go ahead and relabel them NAMBLA Scouts of America
I’m sure there are many liberals who would eagerly put their boys into the hands of homosexuals to ensure they became sensitive metro homo sexual menwhen they grow up.
Time for the Boy Scouts to start wearing locks on their pants.
The spineless will let civilization roll over to Armageddon.
How was this piece our CIA Director?
pathetic- what a weasel- perhaps he’d like to see it renamed to the NAMBLA Scouts
Same for us. Two Eagle Scouts and a Life Sciut between my brothers and I. My kids are adult now, but my grandsons will miss out on the program that gave son much to me.
There were "cultural changes" during the Nazi regime too. The decent people resisted these changes. The vile scum went along with them.
One hundred percent of the people insisting that a third party vote in the last election was a vote for Obama are for this.
Zero exceptions.
Because Mitt Romney indicated that this was where he was willing to go with the boy scouts if they could get a bill.to the governor’s desk when he ran Massachusetts.
This specifically is one of the reasons social conservatives oppose Mitt Romney and have worked for over a decade trying to remove him from politics.
This is a cause worth opposing no matter what political faction supports it.
When my son was little he was a Cub Scout. I did worry about the Scout Leaders being homosexual. I do not trust a 40 year-old man dressed in a Cub Scout uniform. It ticks me off for some reason.
I had a homosexual Scoutmaster back in the early 70s. Mr Gates is making a BIG mistake. I would rather see the BSA just disappear from the earth than see this. Sad, sad day.
Hey Bob!
The BSA and their parents are under no obligation to make their sons available for molestation and recruitment by perverts.
If that is not the goal, then the perverts wouldn’t be fighting so hard for access.
I ttook my cubscout out last year. He is in RA’s instead
Another corrupt, ignorant and un-American piece of trash.
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