better take out that part about Morally Straight in the oath then...
Posted on 05/25/2013 9:33:42 AM PDT by Jeff Head
I have been involved to one degree or another with scouting my whole life. Either as a scout myself, a volunteer leader (including a Scout Master and on the local Scouting Committee on numerous occassions), or an annual doner. No more. For the reasons I cite, I can no longer support the organization either myself, or for my own grandsons.
So, this is a letter I sent to the Boy Scouts of America regarding their recent "vote," on accepting openly gay young men as scouts:
Boy Scouts of America
May 24, 2013,
I was in Scouting as a youth. I have been a leader, including a Scout Master, and a member of our Scout Committee, serving as the Advancement chair on occassion. I have also donated to scouting my entire life.
As a result of your recent decision regarding openly gay youth being able to join scouting, I personally will not be giving another dime to the BSA.
I will also recommend that my children not enroll any of our grandsons into the organization...as much as it pains me, and as much as I regret the loss of this once great organization.
Part of Scouting is to be "morally straight." Those words have meaning. A gay life style is not "morally straight." Societal mores may change. But the truth does not...and you do not advance the truth by giving in to or accepting such behavior or inclinations and trying to call them "normal," or okay.
The homosexual community is now going to recruit 16-17 year old boys to become open members of the scouting organization. I do not want my 12-14 year old grandsons, or any other youth exposed to such individuals on campouts. Plain and simple. Not worth the risk.
If you think this will not be discussed, and that such kids will not promote that life-style through conversations at such events...you are deluding yourselves.
My church, the LDS Church, will continue with the scout program within its own congregations until and unless they accept adult leaders who are homosexual. That is what the Church has indicated is its 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 as much as a heterosexual who does not 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...for the reasons I just enumerated I cannot support it within the scouts. The Boy Scouts are a seperate, private organization apart from the church, whom seek my private support. I will no longer give it.
I simply cannot, and will not risk that set of circumstances on my own grandkids, or anyone else's if I can help it. And I can help it by not supporting either materially, monetarily, or with my time an organization that has decided to abdicate the moral high ground in order to retain large donations from organizations that have already embraced this homosexual agenda and its strawman "sexual orientation" argurment, or who would avoid adverse public relations pressure from the homosexual community. Make no mistake, those are precisely the issues in play here. As I said, the truth is the truth, and despite million dollar donations, or adverse publicity,"morally straight," means something. Something intrinsic that cannot and must not be auctioned off.
BSA, how could you?
Sincerely,
Jeff Head
Emmett, ID
USA
America is at the Crossroads of History, we cannot, and will not choose the right path if we abdicate eternal principles in order to avoid criticism by the liberal progressive elements in today's society who believe in amorality, and a moving set of societal mores. Our nation, our people, have been great historically precisely because we as a people, from our founding, embraced and upheld fundamental moral principal as enumerated to us through the Gosepl of Jesus Christ. Tolerant? yes. Abidating those pricniples to those who reject them? No.
God bless us as a people to return to our roots, and to elect individuals of high moral standing and courage who will hold those lines.
THE PROGRESSIVE/LIBERAL TRAIN WRECK
better take out that part about Morally Straight in the oath then...
bump
Excellent. Good for you.
all we have t do is look at this to see what the left is up to and what they want.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
it states homosexuality, take control of media, infiltrate political parties, destroy the family.
This decision was not really to provide homosexual children with scouting. Scouting starts in 2nd grade. The money spent on lawyers and the gorilla warfare used to gain access to the Boy Scouts was not for the children at all. It was for the adults wanting access to scouting. Removing scouts from recreational parks for camping. Not allowing projects on taxpayer owned lands coupled with public humiliation at Democrat Conventions when scouts appeared on stage. The Philadelphia homosexual city Democrat politician that had the scouts kicked out of the meeting place they had for decades. It is not about kids. It is about well financed, powerful adults demanding access.
I just sent a mail to that address. Not that it’ll do much good now.
Talk radio is being too quiet (Imo) on most social issues and that silence is hurting the country overall. The more the left advances this the more they can have people saying... oh, it's normal now. Thanks. talk radio on that aspect of this. Gay boys grow up then the next battle is to become a scout leader. The BSA just folded on this great private organization. They didn't care about the overall boys, did they of what's to come..
Instead they chose to support homosexuality by sanctioning it within the church.
Are you serious? What if it were to be discovered that a boy scout had (gasp) a girlfriend? He should be kicked out?
My husband asked, and I don’t know, what is the organizational structure that allowed these turncoat, pro-homosexual leadership to rise up to the level of the executive council or whatever it was called that just made this decision? I don’t know the organizational structure of scouting, but would venture to guess this was NOT the majority opinion at the local scouting level.
Can anyone answer that who understands the scouting leadership structure?
One suggestion: The United Way Fund.
They not only support abortions through Planned Parenthood but many local UWs provide funding for the BSA. Stop giving to the UW and ^tell them why^.
I’m sure there will be countless letters and phone calls just like yours.
I never understood why the scouts had to kow tow to the government and why the government had the power to stick it’s nose into the organization. But then libs have been going after them for years.
->>I truly believe this vote may have had a different outcome had the LDS (Mormon Church) taken a different stand.
Instead they chose to support homosexuality by sanctioning it within the church.
I put a lot of the blame there myself.
The gay mafia got exactly what it wanted. It didn’t want inclusion in the Boy Scouts, it wanted the Boy Scouts destroyed.
Indeed. Talk-radio has been all but absent on social issues for several years now, basically helping to clear the path for America to slide into the putrid cultural sewer that it has. All they (and FoxNews, etc.) seem to really care about is “low taxes” for their northeastern corporate buddies. The same slimeball corporations that are invariably run by these same degenerates that push their deviant worldview on organizations like the Scouts.
The registrar said that they would delete my "credentials". He didn't make any other comment, but I could tell by the strained voice, that he was carefully avoiding any position. I felt sorry for him. He is a full-time employee, having to support a reprehensible position.
It is my hope that they are inundated with resignations.
Yeah, I’m serious. Thats why the word ‘outspoken’.
you said it better than I could.
BTTT
Probably the best recourse is for concerned parents to take their entire troop out of the organization, while continuing to practice traditional Boy Scout activities, but no longer under the organizational umbrella.
In fact, once out of the BSA, troops can reemphasize religious and patriotic values, offer more skills such as knife, axe, rifle, shotgun, handgun, archery, and ‘classical’ scouting skills such as semaphore, Morse code, survival training; map, compass and navigation, etc.
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