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
That’s sad. You effectively place a normal healthy straight scout in the same category as a homo scout as you want both of them to hide their orientation.
Not me. I see nothing wrong with a Boy Scout being able to casually mention he has a date with a pretty little girl next Saturday night.
This was about trying to make the public accept their perversion, their way of life and their agenda.
>>It is also about despoiling any bastion of traditional American morals still left standing against the putrid tide of progressivism and deviancy. The boy scouts up til now have represented everything the homos and leftists hate - an effective organization for boys and young men that transmitted timeless moral virtues. The leftists have now succeeded in corrupting the organization for their own use.
Another Great American institution destroyed by the left.
Well written, Jeff, and to the point. The BSA really blew it with this move. Or maybe that was their desire.
I had an argument with a liberal woman that I work with about the nature of homosexuality. She believes that people are born either fag or straight. Obviously I don’t. She said that there is no way to prove that people are not born queer. I told her about a National Geographic special that I saw where there was an indigenous tribe in Africa who did not even have a word for homosexuality because the concept was completely foreign to them. I told her that if people were born queer then even that tribe would have had some queer members at some point. She said, “Being indigenous they may not have been taught...” I stopped her right there and told her that she just lost her argument when she uttered the word “taught.” I’ll never let her live it down either.
Whats sad is you would throw a sexually confused kid out of the scouts, who may have tried to hide his problem, when you might have made a positive influence in his life.
Bravo.
I was a Scout, a long time ago and I still don’t know what to say. I guess I could email later, even if it’s locking the stable door after the horse runs away.
None. Monday is Memorial Day, the schools are closed.
(just answering)
I was a scout through First Class (on the way up when we moved), gained my love of the outdoors and all things rugged from my short experience there.
If people were born “queer”, they’d evolve right out of the species and that characteristic would disappear. After all, two gay people could not reproduce - thus, it would be a dead end trait and that gene would be eradicated from the species over a couple of generations.
It’s a learned behavior, and it’s popular now.
Many thanks, Jeff!
One Catholic alternative to the Boy Scouts has already been set up.
http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2013/05/the-scouting-renaissance/#more-54881
for information.
Whats sad is you would throw a sexually confused kid out of the scouts, who may have tried to hide his problem, when you might have made a positive influence in his life.
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At the expense of a normal kid who is told to hide his normal behavior? Yeah, I sure would.
Look FRiend. You are mistaken in your belief that you will overcome the homosexual agenda by forcing straights to “go in the closet”.
I simply said the scouts aren't about sexual orientation. I would no sooner throw a homosexual kid who stays in the closet out of the scouts as I would any other kid with a problem who joins the scouts.
Unrepentant, proselytizing is another story.
That is exactly what this pressure on the BSA is.
My time in Scouting was too short too(5 years) and mostly for the same reason but I took a lot away from that time.
About 51 years ago here. I’ve still got my Boy Scout Handbook © 1959. A lot of good stuff to know and live by in there. They can’t take that away...yet.
I don't think sexually confused kids were ever being thrown out of the scouts. Gays had been in the scouts for decades just as they had been in the military for decades. They were there existing with a more or less unspoken, Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.
But once activists began demanding that openly gay scouts be allowed in, or allowed to stay in scouts after they "came out", then that's when the scout's policy became an issue on which a stand had to be taken.
Similar developments brought the gay adult scout leader issue to the US Supreme Court, but that one was always more dangerous and more serious that the few in-the-closet gay scouts who participated.
But all this came to a head because activists demanded the openly gay scouts be allowed to be members, not because in-the-closet kids were being pursued and flushed out by any BSA organizations.
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