Posted on 01/29/2013 3:46:14 PM PST by fwdude
January 29, 2013 - Tuesday
For 103 years, the mission of the Boy Scouts has been "to prepare young people to make ethical choices." Unfortunately, the organization's leadership seems less inclined to make those same choices themselves, as rumors swirl that the Board is on the verge of reversing its longtime policy on homosexuality. To most parents, the news that the Scouts were even considering a change is a shock. After all, it was just seven months ago that the same spokesman told reporters that, after a two-year review, a special committee had unanimously recommended keeping the ban. "The vast majority of parents," Deron Smith had explained, "value their right to address issues of same-sex orientation within their family... at the appropriate time and right setting."
Now, suddenly, after decades of withstanding pressure, lost sponsors, and evictions, the Boy Scouts are a Board meeting away from destroying a century-old legacy of courage in exchange for weak-kneed compromise that pleases no one. According to the press release yesterday, the BSA would peel away the national prohibition on open homosexuality and pass the political hot potato of "sexual inclusion" to individual troops--most of whom won't have the financial means or the will to beat back the coming onslaught. A new policy would only shift the attention to local councils, who would be under unfathomable stress to fall in line with BSA headquarters. And as homosexual activists well know, it will be a lot easier to pick off one council at a time than to take down the entire Boy Scouts of America.
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Camp outs, jamborees, Order of the Arrow—all involve Scouts from different units who would have different policies. The National policy must be maintained.
Just sent my note...
To: Wayne.Brock@Scouting.org
Just Say NO to Homosexual Scouting
If you do what you are contemplating, my decades long electronic monthly donations to the Boy Scouts of America in California will cease. I won’t be alone in that, by any means.
Perhaps the destruction of the BSA is precisely your intent. If so, then well played.
If not, then you need to continue to work to keep the pederasts away from our boys, and back away from this NAMBLA inspired wet dream of your board members.
Frosty regards,
Easy Street
Put your money where your mouth is. It is Friends of Scouting time. Between now and March is when the councils ask for private and corporate donations to the Scouting Program. Please drop A line to the Boy Scouts of America and let them know how you feel. Please consider also calling your local council and let them know as well.
Money Talks.
Add to that, the UNited way must have given them some serious coin as there is a new merit badge that will be on the Eagle Required list called Sustainability.
Wayne Brock (Chief Scout Executive)
8605 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75235
972-580-2004, 972-580-2000
Wayne.Brock@Scouting.org.
I agree. Before support is pulled outright, we need to see how this will play out. I find it extremely difficult to grasp that this organization that was stalwart in their policy of no homosexuals in Scouting only 7 months ago could cave so quickly, so this could just be trumped up psyops by the sold-out leftist media to magnify something that isn't what it appears in order to demoralize normal Americans while the iron is hot. Either that, or there is MAJOR extortion going on at high levels.
If it is as it appears and they really have sodomy in mind for willing troops, even if it doesn't pass, they are toast in my eyes. You don't consider the untenable without crucifying your own values.
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“This is not a done deal yet”
The liberal media sure is working overtime to make it sound so.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/us/boy-scouts-consider-lifting-ban-on-gay-leaders.html
I was thinking about it and I came up with the same analogy. It’s better than nothing, but it’s still a shame that the word ‘boy scout’ will mean different things, but maybe they won’t even get to keep the term eventually.
If there is a chick fil a type movement it might not happen. But the thing is if there is enough big business money that type of thing might not fly in this case.
Freegards
Decades ago in my Scout troop we all figured the assistant scoutmaster was gay, but at least during my 7 years in scouting he was a fine scoutmaster, kept it in the closet, and never wronged a boy. (He ‘came out’ later.) Still, I don’t think it’s a good idea to encourage putting men into such positions of temptation - look what it has done to the Catholic Church, with priests and altar boys.
The problem isn’t with the gays who will abide by the rules and otherwise be exemplary Scouts....the problem is that inevitably they will start making demands that the Scouts make changes to accomodate them.
That’s the problem with gays, they demand everybody change for them, instead of for them to adapt.
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Pinging both lists, since the Boy Scouts have been standing up for moral principles for decades and helping boys grow up to be good men. Now the evil worm has entered the BSA and as noted, the individual councils will be childs' play for homo activists to take to court and destroy. This is extremely discouraging news. The fight against the homo agenda should have been fought with vigor decades ago, but people who should have known better were silent for too long.
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Dear Mr. Brock,
The Scout Oath:
"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 ."
Please tell me whether the Boy Scouts are really considering dropping their core standard and oath to remain "morally straight."
If this standard is dropped, I will unfortunately be compelled to drop my annual donations and other support to the Scouts, and I will actively encourage my Church to drop its many years of support and affiliation as well. In that situation, the good news is that there are still organizations besides the Scouts that will maintain their commitment to traditional values and standards; organizations still worthy of support by myself and by millions of others who have stood by the Boy Scouts throughout our lives.
Say your a heterosexual guy, who, for some reason, really digs senior highschool girl’s swimming team competition. As much as you honestly dig it, and as much as you want to help the girls be great swimmers, should one feel that parents who didn’t want you to be the coach aren’t being reasonable?
Yes, it sucks that that you won’t get to help the girls, but it’s not like the parents don’t have a leg to stand on.
Freegards
I’m sure Jerry Sandusky and the NAMBLA crowd is delirious.
If this happens there will be a flood of lawsuits against local troops and packs. The National organization may have deep pockets to defend against this but our local troop sure does not. They will pick them off one by one.
Who is “they”?
There is some leadership team that is speaking for the Scouts.
Liberals love to infiltrate leadership, lay low, and when they get a ruling majority finally show their true colors.
It’s what they do.
How can this be accomplished?
Me too. No more donations and I’ll burn my merit badges.
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