FDRQ have no business being around young boys...
Posted on 03/11/2013 7:38:38 PM PDT by Morgana
IRVING, TX, March 11, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Boy Scouts of America are asking for citizens across the country to express their opinion about the BSA's policy barring open homosexuals from joining the group as members or scoutmasters.
In a tiny link at the top of their website, the Scouts announced their review of the policy. A second link simply asks readers, “Share your feedback.”
Last July, the 100-year-old outdoor group announced it would maintain its moral standards for members and leaders. However, in January the national scouting organization bowed to pressure to reconsider the policy.
A decision was expected last month. However, roughly 20 percent of the youth members' councils asked for the decision to be delayed until May, when 1,400 members can vote at their upcoming meeting in Grapevine, Texas.
The BSA issued a statement at the time saying “due to the complexity of this issue, the organization needs time for a more deliberate review of its membership policy."
Prominent figures have already weighed in on the ban's future. Texas Gov. Rick Perry weighed in for scouting tradition. Texas Gov. Rick Perry weighed in for scouting tradition.
Texas Governor Rick Perry, himself an Eagle Scout, stated that he hopes Scout leaders “will follow their historic position of keeping the Scouts strongly supportive of the values that make scouting this very important and impactful organization.”
More than 60 prominent Texas state lawmakers, including U.S. Congressman Kenny Marchant, added their support last week, signing a statement calling on the Scouts to maintain the scouting tradition for future generations.
“Capitulating to the liberal social agenda not only undermines the very principles of scouting, but sets the stage for the erosion of an organization that has defined the American experience for generations of young men,” they write. “We urge you to protect all that scouting has been, and all that it can remain.”
Those who favor repealing the ban have also not been hesitant to make their views known.
In addition to homosexual lobbying groups, high-profile figures have called for the repeal of the ban on open homosexuality for scoutmasters and members. It was one of the issues that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney agreed on in the 2012 presidential race.
The heritage of scouting was so important to the body's executive leadership that the Boy Scouts won a 5-4 Supreme Court decision recognizing the right of private organizations to determine their own membership policies in 2000.
“Input” is the wrong word to use w.r.t. this subject . . .
My input is this. Go gay and I am pulling my seven year old out.
““Input” is the wrong word to use w.r.t. this subject . . .”
For starters YES
The scout oath includes the phrase “morally straight”. To include gays would either require dropping that phrase or declaring that anything anyone wants to do is moral.
Gay Scout Leaders and gay Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts will corrupt the troops and packs and impose legal and financial liability on the BSA.
They will need to add the term “sexually straight” to the Oath.
Well, I sent my input. If they change their policy we are going Boys’ Brigade or similar.
You want my opinion - hell no!
Boy Scout Oath or Promise
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.
....and morally straight.
....and morally straight.
....and morally straight.
....and morally straight.
....and morally straight.
....and morally straight.
If you choose to go a different route...get your own source of funding.
go not gay but go anal sex and I take my boys out of the place
FDRQ have no business being around young boys...
Homosexual men mentoring boys when their parents are not around.
What could go wrong??
It was about what I expected, maybe not quite as bad. First, I was asked whether I approved of the current policy. Then I was asked about a number of scenarios featuring holy homosexuals and their supportive chartering organizations. Then I was asked if I had changed my initial reaction to the current policy.
Noticeably missing from the scenarios is this much more likely one: "John and his son James joined the Boy Scouts of America relying upon the expressed policy of standing for traditional morality. After the national organization caved to big money corporate interests and sacrificed the youth of America on the altar of political correctness, John and James could not renounce the teachings of their church and the chartering organization and were forced to withdraw from Scouting. How do you feel about this?"
Nevertheless, I made my beliefs known and received a response along the lines of, "It appears you are concerned about the current direction of Scouting. Would you like a local Council representative to contact you?"
I indicted I would. I suppose our local reps feel much the same as me, but I will tell them what I believe, if I ever hear from them.
Here is my submission I just now sent:
I understand BSA is now asking for feedback on the Gay issue. It is also my understanding that such feedback has been sought now for over 2 years, and the RIGHT answer was given some time ago. Now you are asking again? Make no mistake about this. If BSA capitulates to the gay rights agenda, Scouting will die a very painful and quick death in America. America needs leadership right now! It’s looking more and more like BSA is unwilling to stand up to the pressure. STAND ON PRINCIPLE!!! NOT ON STUPID Web feedback requests that you KNOW the gay rights activists are going to FLOOD with pro-gay, ANTI-GOD, and morally corrupt thinking that contradicts EVERYTHING that Scouting is about. Take a stand, and STAY THERE!... put your faith in GOD... not feedback results! We talk a lot about Faith in God in Scouting. Well, It’s time to put some of that faith to a test. Stand your ground. Trust God. Watch and see how HE will bless Scouting as a result.
That scared me. For a split second, “mentoring” looked like “entering” . . .
I am disturbed that they are “asking”.
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