>>> Lukewarm = spewed out of mouth.
Wow... you have no idea how well you hit that nail on the head.
It’s been how many years now that BSA has been fighting this battle time and time again, and always won... all the way to the supreme court.
And what was BSA’s core line of constitutional defense???
Well... it was the right of association... the freedom to exclude... because BSA is a private organization, our constitution gave them the right to discriminate based on religious beliefs.
Now look what they’ve done... Homosexuality has just been added to the “acceptable” list of Scouting’s religious beliefs. BSA has just handed over the very tool to Satan that he needed to destroy them with.
Why doesn’t anyone see this???
What happens NOW when some gay kid gets excluded or criticized by a parent or a scout leader?
What happens when someone tells an openly gay scout that he is sinning, and therefore cannot be considered morally straight? Doesn’t the gay kid NOW have legal recourse????
Mark my words... we will see a fresh round of discrimination lawsuits against the BSA next year... and I seriously hope you don’t think they’ll leave the churches out of it.
Yeah... This is a test... One that the churches are failing miserably...
And by the way... in Revelation where the lukewarm reference was made... it doesn’t say that God “WANTS to spew them out of His mouth”...
It says that He will!
YAY! A STRONGLY-WORDED RESOLUTION!!!
The Baptists chickened out. Despicable. The BSA has new life. They could have igniting TRUE bibical-based scouting groups, and destroyed evil once and for all...and they BLINKED! Now the BSA goes on serving the Sodomists.
Here is a link with a discussion of what passed and what was modified:
http://www.sbcannualmeeting.net/sbc13/newsroom/newspage.asp?ID=31
I doubt any other denomination will take a stronger stance.
They don’t “oppose” it enough to strongly advise separation from this now-godless organization.
The SBC doesn’t often ‘explicitly tell the churches’ to do much of anything. They aren’t the authoritative head like other denominations have. Each SBC church is independent. That being said, bear in mind this is an AP article and they will spin it in the best light possible. I see this as the strongest condemnation coming from any church so far.