A coalition of Eagle Scouts, Scoutmasters, and parents have launched a new organization vowing to keep sex and politics out of the Boy Scouts of America. Posted on 03/27/2013 4:31:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
A coalition of Eagle Scouts, Scoutmasters, and parents have launched a new organization vowing to keep sex and politics out of the Boy Scouts of America.
“The Boy Scouts are one of the great jewels of American culture,” said John Stemberger, an Eagle Scout and the founder of OnMyHonor.net.
Representatives from more than a dozen states gathered in Florida to announce the opposition to any attempt to allow open homosexuality in the BSA.
The BSA is expected to offer a proposal that would remove the national rule banning open homosexuality -- and replacing it with a local option. That resolution would be voted on by the national council in May.
The announcement came as a shock to scouts and their parents, who overwhelmingly oppose the plan -- but also to a number of religious organizations who sponsor troops. About 70 percent of all troops are sponsored by church groups.
Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, met with Boy Scouts Chief Executive Wayne Brock in early March -- warning him that a change in policy could result in a mass exodus of troops.
Stemberger told Fox News that the new coalition supports the current policy in Scouting. That policy, he said, allows anyone to participate -- regardless of sexual orientation. It does forbid open and aggressive promotion of homosexuality and political agendas.
“When it comes to young boys, parents have the final say on the issues of sex and politics,” Stemberger said.
He said the Boy Scouts are being bullied by gay rights activists who have a much broader agenda for the organization.
“It would be an enormous mistake if they allowed homosexuality in scouting,” he said. “They have no idea what these folks really want to do.”
Stemberger said there are already gays in scouting -- “they are discreet, they are appropriate, they are private and they don’t act out in front of kids.”
“What they want is full-blown gay activism in scouting,” he said, “and that’s what they can’t have under the current policy.”
He predicted any change in the policy would devastate the program.
“We think that sex and politics should stay out of Scouting,” he said. “We think that’s utterly inappropriate where boys as young as six and seven years old are being trained to be men.”
Stemberger said he hopes BSA leadership is listening to parents “rather than Madonna and Bill Gates.”
The possible change in policy has also impacted some Eagle Scouts -- like Malachi Baggett, 20, of Mississippi.
“All of a sudden they are backing away (from the policy),” he said of BSA leadership. “What does that tell me as a young man? Once it’s no longer popular, it’s okay to change your morals? Instead of basing your morals on faith, you should place them in a shifting culture? That’s extremely dangerous.”
Former U.S. Rep. Dick Schulze raised similar concerns.
“What kind of a message are we sending to our young people if the very leaders who are teaching Boy Scouts to be brave, cannot even find the courage to stand firm and avoid caving to peer pressure from Hollywood and political activists,” he asked.
Stemberger said the only answer to the controversy is to embrace the 2000 Supreme Court decision that ruled the BSA had a constitutional right to freedom of association.
“That’s the only way we can protect ourselves,” he said. “Otherwise, every single unit will be subjected to a legal attack. Millions of dollars will be spent on litigation. They will file lawsuits against churches, VFWs and a lot of them will abandon scouting.”
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““What kind of a message are we sending to our young people if the very leaders who are teaching Boy Scouts to be brave, cannot even find the courage to stand firm and avoid caving to peer pressure from Hollywood and political activists,” he asked.”
Well said. What a admirable young man.
It’s been twenty years since I was part of Scouting but I am disgusted at the amoral people trying to do this.
I hope the Justices of the Supreme Court keep this in mind when they decide on gay marriage. They need to take off their blinders and look around 360 degrees. This is isn’t only about one issue but a number of issues that gays are using to drive a wedge into many practices of society.
First the gays want to forceably join the scouts—because they want to be close to kids.
They took artificial insemination clinics to court because they refused to inseminate a lesbian-—because gays/lesbians want to be close to kids.
They get their “Heather Has Two Mommies” books in the schools—because they want to get into kids heads and confuse them at a very young age.
Homosexual teachers demand their ‘rights’ to teach-—because they want to be close to kids.
Gays demanded the right to adopt children-—because they want to be close to kids.
Kids seem to be right on their bullseye.
> The misery has now reached the threshold where they feel the need to organize and share their unhappiness with EVERYONE and force everyone to endure it.
The misery has now reached the threshold where they feel the need to organize and share their unhappiness with EVERYONE and force everyone to become one.
If anything the gaystapo is making more people hate them more than ever before.
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got that right
If any let this slide then it will only be a matter of time before the nation caves to pedos demanding their pound of child flesh.
Give an inch...
The bullying comment is spot-on.
It needs to be repeated, again, again and again.
Well the courts up there sided with the homosexuals , no surprise there and Catholic charities closed their adoptions and now more children will be not finding a nice home as quick due to selfish homosexuals and their agenda.
Then later a guy a Christian took the bar exam and there in the exam was a question which made it clear homosexuals were married.
Well against his religion he did not answer the question
He was told he had to answer it or he would not pas the exam, he did not and therefore he did not become a lawyer
If he can stand for his convictions then why is Hannity, O/R and others not saying a damn thing?
Then in Lexington MA a father wanted to know what his boy was being told.
He went tot he school after no one from te school giving him a reply.
He was escorted off the grounds, his kid was then bullied, the teachers stood by while his boy was hit and there were phone calls at all hours calling him a bigot.
Guess those doing that forgot about their bigotry
Yes if the court sides with the homosexuals then this will come to America as we only have to look at MA and how buts it has become
Rush Limbaugh and the Catholic Church also allowed this filth to get a foothold and control of schools, curricula, universities and Churches also all through the 90’s. Michael Savage was always on top of this evil-—but they marginalized him—he was the ONLY one brave enough to attack the issue in the 90’s and his TV Show collapsed on day one because of the homomafia.
I always figured these people like O.R. and Hannity were really part of the Hegelian Dialectic to distract us from the foundational constitutional issues—of religious freedom-—hate speech is unconstitutional and was created so mafia could force ideas into children’s heads with no counter arguments. IT is brainwashing.....-homosexual marriage will remove Judeo-Christians Ethics from our culture and force the sexualization of little kids which will destroy morality in them.
We will be like pagan/occult homosexual societies like the Samurai-—the Ancient Greeks—because Good and Evil is destroyed with the idea of homosexual marriage. Sodomizing others is using humans for selfish lust—it is using human beings in degrading ways—which is always evil in Judeo-Christian society.
Putting ideas like anal sex into the minds of children will warp their perceptions of all human interaction and make them into good little Marxist pagans/occultists/Satanists who need a master because they are slaves to their base instincts. Intellect and Reason is ejected because Laws of Nature will be ejected (like in Marxism and Islam).
Fr. Oko’s report on the homomafia is excellent at the Nazi-like tactics of the homosexuals to destroy ALL opposition. That is why people who have “survived” on TV are suspect-—because homosexuals target ALL negative statements about their disgusting evil behavior—Tactics (Saul Alinsky) explained in the Kirk/Madsen “After the Ball” book. These people want boys to love sodomy and they have to pervert them in childhood. IT is evil and disgusting-—Marketing of Evil has been going on and ignored by Talk radio (except Savage) and all TV news shows.
Notice the Nazi tactics (Nazis were homosexuals also and so were the Bolsheviks) that the homosexuals use:
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/02/fr-dariusz-okos-major-article-with-pope.html
It looks to me as though the "committee" is just buying time to further develop and justify its corrupt pro-homosexual agenda at the national level. They have already made up their minds and, at this juncture, are in a damage control mode in my opinion.
It is alarming and disappointing that the "leadership" would even consider changing its policy at the top, and allow subordinate organizations to decide whether or not to comply. The longer term implications are obvious and negative! Can these people be removed? They do NOT belong.
Do these corrupt men support perversion within? Why are they compromising the mental and physical health of the Boy Scouts of America for a transient popular culture?
We shall see in May.
when one of their officials was asked why do you not let homosexuals marry he replied
“They cannot marry in our constitution, have you not noticed that they know this but always go and try but there is always a camera with them, they are attention seekers and we will not give in to their propaganda”
Shame the cowards like most of talk radio and the GOP shut up.
Did the left ever say how they must drop the queer agenda because most did ot want it, did they ever say reach out, did they ever stop their health care?
hell no they refine their message and carry on with their propaganda and yet stupid party speaks reach out, maybe accept this
Thanks for being a Den Mother. It’s an important job.
That’s exactly what I think. The gay activists are the bullies. I’m sick of it, too.
I’ve heard speculation that if the scouts go homo a lot of churches will end their support due to the liabilities involved.
The Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts will have to audit their entire membership and purge all who are gay as once the gays are entrenched in the BSA they will not be able to remove the easily.
agree on all counts, but remember Dr Laura, she mentioned this in the early 90’s and they came after her like they did to Savage
Our stupid party talks about reaching out and maybe accpeting this and never talk about social issues.
Did the left ever in all these years say we should reach out?
Did they ever say we must drop this agenda?
Did they ever stop doing health care?
No they re-define their message but never give up their agenda.
We have a stupi reach out party, it attacks the base and ignores social issues, most of talk radio cares more about their own power and money pocket and being pals with Colmes, Beckel etc.
Susie,
our side never spoke up and I guarantee that some freepers never for fear of teir family might not approving.
If any of my sons come home and tell me theyre queer, then I woudl sit them down and tell them that being turned on by a mans ass, wanting to insert into feces all the time and sellping with a guy is not normal and he needs help.
Of course myboys were raised every day with morals, manners and a knowledge that they do not get brainwashed into the lefts agenda and that thry always question wiht respect.
That goes for my daughter too.
Can;t say she;s not turned on by men and then have a woman wearing a plastic strap on pretending to be a guy.
if our side had mentioned all of this and the diseases, the rapes on young boys, the mental illness, the depression, the attention seeking ways they act and how they can;t keep it in their pants and have to go to dog parks, truck stops, rest rooms, hiking trails, etc and then have Hannity showing the folsom fair then people woudl see what was really going on, plus point out how the homostapo act
If the GOP accept this, Huckabee is right. They’ll be finished. Laura Ingraham hit on it recently, that as traditional Americans are increasingly marginalized and attacked, they will simply withdraw from society, moving into rural areas, putting up their fences and keeping their heads down.
The effects of this will be especially prevalent in our military. I’ve already decided no kids of mine are being recommended to go into the military. I simply don’t believe the current country is worth risking your life for. Controversial, I know, and I mean no disrespect to those who have fought and are fighting, but why should Christians fight for a society that hates their guts? I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking this. It won’t be long before we have a Greek-sized armed forces. Are the liberal entitlement-loving homosexuals going to sign up en masse? I don’t think so somehow, and while the proglodytes may hate the military, they might one day need it.
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