When will church denominations begin issuing instructions to pull out of the Gay Scouts?
I look for the Southern Baptist Convention to be the 1st ...
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=40331
Page, Land send letters opposing Scout proposal
5/17/2013
"Southern Baptist leaders Frank Page and Richard Land have written letters expressing strong opposition to a proposal that would leave in place the prohibition on homosexual Scout leaders but would allow youth who identify as gay to join ... Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, addressed the letter to all the voting delegates. Page's letter was part of an email sent by the Middle Tennessee Council of the Boy Scouts of America to all 1,400 delegates urging them to defeat the proposed resolution. ...
... Land, outgoing president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said the ERLC's position on the Boy Scouts' latest proposal "differs in no respect" from the entity's position on the previously proposed option to allow local leaders to set membership standards.
"In short, the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission remains opposed to any change in the Boy Scouts' membership policy," Land wrote to Chief Scout Executive Wayne Brock and Boy Scouts of America (BSA) President Wayne Perry.
The ERLC, Land wrote, considers the proposed policy to be a serious departure from the Boy Scouts' moral foundation and traditional values. The admittance of openly homosexual youth into Scouting does not comport with Boy Scouts' mission, Land wrote, and it is at odds with the Scout Oath.
"If the BSA takes one step in compromising a long-held core value, what would prevent it from soon taking a second step to abandonment of the value altogether?" Land wrote.
Also among Land's concerns:
-- Southern Baptists do not believe embracing same-sex orientation is biblically acceptable. "By introducing homosexual identification into Scouting, the Boy Scouts would effectively require church-sponsored Scouting units to endorse that which they consider incompatible with Scripture," the letter states.
-- Southern Baptists historically have played an integral part in the Boy Scouts and allowing openly homosexual youth into Scouting would cause many Southern Baptist churches to withdraw their sponsorship. "Already, numerous churches have told us of their intent to do so," Land wrote.