Posted on 05/26/2016 5:47:47 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Robert Gates became the Boy Scouts of America’s president facing deep divisions within the organization’s membership over whether to let gays serve openly in its ranks.
On Thursday, Gates finished his two-year term by arguing the Scouts had overcome that challenge and were ready to reverse years of membership declines.
In a speech to Scouting leaders, the former U.S. secretary of defense defended the compromise last year to allow openly gay adult leaders to serve in the Scouts, but give churches sponsoring troops the right to use sexual orientation as a guideline for selecting leaders. …
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You should be and are doubtless rightfully proud of your son.
Sorry about your sons loss.
Eagle Scout is a great achievement.
Too bad political correctness robbed him of the opportunity.
Yes, by all means - open the ranks to homosexual predators.
Makes an obama kinda sense.
When you knee jerks does it disengage your brain?
BSA still maintains the rigorous Youth Protection Training program that has been in effect for years. The program is quite effective in teaching the BSA leaders, all the BSA leaders. how to guard against the perils in you delusional mind
Your comment is born of gross ignorance
My son earned his Eagle before this monster destroyed Scouting. I was a Life and a Scouter in my son’s years, but because of Gates, Scouting is dead to me!
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Hope the door hit him HARD in the ass as he went out.
My son's an Eagle Scout and this policy is an abomination. Don't be an enabler.
Don't bother to ping me again bert.
Don’t get on the wrong side of this issue, bro.
All the programs in the world don’t alter proclivities.
I have only one earnest prayer: That Robert Gates contracts a painful, lingering pancreatic cancer and that his last words are unintelligible over his anguished shrieks.
He’s accomplished his mission, but it wasn’t stopping membership decline.
I want to completely forget that he was once President of Texas A&M University. Strike that legacy.
I take it you are referring to the Congressional Charter bestowed on BSA in 1916. From what little reading I have done on CC's, they appear to function as a fig leaf of Congressional approval. It did not include Congressional oversight. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee decided not to consider applications for further charters in 1992, though several were still granted thereafter.
We are in agreement that BSA National and local councils wanted free stuff from the Feds, e.g., access to camping on federal properties and in decades past free travel on military aircraft. Local councils relied on the public school systems to permit passive recruiting from the student bodies, use schools as the meeting locations for scouting units, and even charter scouting units - especially Cub packs. Progressive education administrators in the public school systems pretty well put the kybosh on scouting in schools since ~ 2000. It remains to be seen whether scouting will recover in public education again.
The real shocking sea change was within corporate America's boardrooms. BSA National and local councils depend heavily upon corporate welfare tribute. The Human Rights Campaign, founded in 1980, worked its way into corporate boardrooms and nearly single-handedly changed U.S. corporate culture with respect to homosexuality. The driving force behind the 2013 BSA National Council meeting which voted to accept open homosexual youths as members was an internal coup of the volunteer BSA National Executive Committee, i.e., < 70 officers who pushed for the change.
Ditto.
I had to work “security” detail for years for Cub Scout day camp because it attracted homosexual pedophiles like flies. They would find out about it and day one just observe. Day two they would show back up wearing the same colored clothing as th counsellors and hang around just waiting for a kid to wander too far for an opportunity. Cops were called regularly and every last one were known to local law enforcement.
The BSA files are filled with homosexuals who snuck into the organization in some way and molested boys. Camp counsellors, leaders, etc. this policy is repugnant. Like all gay liberation nonsense it is not about the realities of the world and putting these children’s safety first it’s just about pandering.
“Gates always struck as the untrustworthy & conniving sort”
Where have you been? Don’t you know the REAL story of Microsoft?? Gates and minions (Ballmer etc) went to IBM with nothing but BS and stalled until they bought an actual OS from a dude selling software from a garage. Gates has always been a conniving weasel from the start.
Are we talking about Robert Gates, or Bill?
Now we have a president of the BSA that sanctions sex offender access to little boys. What could go wrong? Ask the Catholic Church about the gay infiltration of the priesthood and how many lives they scarred.
BSA did not belong to him and or other lovers of sodomy on the BSA board for them to destroy. RIP BSA.
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