This is a much needed topic to be examined...
I'm a former District Chairman, Council Training Chairman
Executive board member of my local council, Eagle Scout, Philmont Staffer, National Jamboree Staffer, Wood Badge Staffer, Silver Beaver, Vigil, in the OA, etc. etc. etc. Let's just say I've been there, done that, and got the T-shirt when it comes to the great Worldwide Scouting Movement envisioned by Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell. One short true story to add to this discussion. We had to deal with the media at the National Jamboree back in 1997, when we had a "sicko" that would pretend to be a media "type" with his roving camera, and was trying to "interview" the scouts to get their hometown info. We actually had to defend ourselves to the media AT THE JAMBOREE, to say we were going to check ALL the media out each day while we were looking for this predator-
We never found him...as far as I know he could still be out there- It seems the people who want to be validated by gaining membership in the BSA are the very people who want to also destroy the movement by that very act. I also have it on good authority that the day the BSA is forced to accept "Gay" leaders the way the Girl Scouts of America seem to now, that's the day the Mormon church will yank all the charters of EVERY Troop and Pack in every ward in America. It would be the end of the BSA.
God Bless the supreme court for buying a little more time for Scouting with their 5-4 decision. We in Scouting are living on borrowed time. Many United Ways also have stopped their financial support, and school boards don't allow recruiting in schools each fall due to this "topic"...
For the movement-
Thank you for your leadership through service. From a fellow Vigil OA member.
Their tactic is to infiltrate and destroy. They have almost done it to the Episcopal Church USA. They are working in every Church.
I got really ticked off when some snotty SOB on another site started comparing the BSA with the KKK.He claimed they were a "White Christians only" group, which really burned me up; because a generation ago, when I was involved in Cub Scouting, I remembered we had racially mixed dens, with members from non-Christian backgrounds.
I decided to look into a few other things the radicals keep trying to sweep under the rug-and I hit paydirt with the correct diagnosis: ephebophilia-that so many male gays embrace.
Hopefully, I'll make it through the night (some nights I wonder !) to my 72nd birthday, and I've resolved to keep throwing the crap back into the faces of the radicals: not just here, but on the sites where THEY feel comfortable.
How can one die better, than in facing fearful odds-for the ashes of his fathers-and the temples of his gods ?
Just curious, did the Mormans get rid of the Girl Scouts? If they did than you do have to worry, if not than you will not have to be thrown out of Morman churches and such. Either way, good luck. I am sure that gays will never be part of the Boy Scouts of America in the next fifty years...after that who knows. I think we have a conservative group of kids growing up so they will fix the world hopefully.