Young men are interviewed before receiving the Aaronic Priesthood in the Church and moral issues and their moral life is specifically discussed. If there are problems, where sexual sins of any nature have occurred or are occurring, they do not receive the Priesthood until they have repented and stopped such activity, and shown that they have repented and are depending on the Atonment of Christ to overcome such behavior.
The Church has always tried to extend the same type of understanding to Scouts. Now they will no longer be able to do so. They will have to accept openly gay scouts into their troops. And the homosexual community will be specifically targeting the LDS and other Churches in the hopes of creating law suites against them for this very thing.
This is why in my letter now reads, in regards to this specific issue, as follows:
"My church, the LDS Church, will continue with the scout program within its own congregations until and unless Scouting accepts adult leaders who are homosexual. That is where the LDS Church has drawn its own line. The Church teaches that homosexuals can be members of the church as long as they are celebate in these desires. In other words, they can have urges, but if they resist temptation and rely on the atonementof Christ, then they can be members in good standing just as much as a heterosexual who resists temptation to commit fornication or adultery.
"While I can understand this, and agree with it spiritually when it comes to young people who are serious about trying to overcome this deviant lifestyle...I cannot support it in scouting where the admission policy will allow "openly," gay scouts into the organization who have no intention of changing. This "open" admission policy will unavoidably and legally conflict with the church's desire to help influence young men away from this life style. There will be no avoiding it...and the homosexual community knows it and intends to exploit it. For this reason, and the reasons I just enumerated above, I personally cannot support the Boy Scouts of America any longer...as long as such a policy exists."
Ok, I thought the guide on LDS Scouting says that the purpose of the LDS Scouting program is to prepare boys for the Aaronic Priesthood. And that in LDS Scouting, all youth leaders are selected by the bishopric.