Posted on 06/03/2013 12:49:49 PM PDT by Prole
(Newser) – The Boy Scouts of America's decision last month to allow gay members was made with the blessings of many churches and religious groups—but not all of them. And here's a pretty significant opponent: The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in America with 45,000 congregations and 16 million members, says it will now urge its followers to leave the Scouts, reports CNN. The Boy Scouts says Baptist churches currently sponsor nearly 4,000 units, containing more than 100,000 kids.
The Southern Baptist Convention will vote on a resolution to disaffiliate with the Scouts this month, and a spokesperson says he expects 99% of people to vote in support of it. "Southern Baptists are going to be leaving the Boy Scouts en masse," he says.
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Find a true southern Baptist church. I grew up SBC then wandered to a Methodist church with my wife. After about 4 years of seeing how they spent my tithes and hearing milk-toast sermons, I took my wife back to a Baptist church.
Why not just use all the same materials and denote as “not sanction” by the BSA.
With congregational autonomy so fundamental to Baptists, it’s hard to imagine them doing anything “en masse.”
Well, maybe you should kick his ass again... hah hah.
FYI ping to you.
Have you tried Royal Rangers? They are christian sponsored groups who focus on survival skills.
I expect the BSA to implode - soon!
***They are in the MIDdle of imploding. If a core group of leaders who refuse to morally compromise would start a new group, that would be the real coup de grace.
The churches these men belonged to are just as responsible in mu opinion.
The authorities should have been involved some instances and in others the leadership of Independent Baptist should have been informed so they could investigate and maybe take away their ability to continue. Preying on the flock.
They are wolves over
Check out Royal Rangers and its associated group, Frontier Camping Fellowship. RR is somewhat similar to Scouts, but with a more explicitly Christian mission. FCF is also explicitly Christian, but is more camping focused than RR, and particularly focused on "primitive" camping - they learn to build tepees, how to cook in dutch ovens on campfires, hunting (including black powder rifles and archery), etc.
What would happen if the Southern Baptists and many other sponsoring organizations merely passed resolutions stating their troops refused to comply with the pro-gay BSA resolution.
Wrong! Some "mainline" Protestant churches have become apostate and have accepted sin in their ranks - see Episcopal, ELCA, PCA, United Methodist, et al. But those denominations do not make up the "majority" of Christian churches.
1. Southern Baptist Convention: 16.2 million members
2. The United Methodist Church: 7.8 million members
3. The Church of God in Christ: 5.5 million members
4. National Baptist Convention: 5.0 million members
5. Evangelical Lutheran Church, U.S.A.: 4.5 million members
6. National Baptist Convention of America: 3.5 million members
7. Assemblies of God: 2.9 million members
8. Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.): 2.8 million members
9. African Methodist Episcopal Church: 2.5 million members
10. National Missionary Baptist Convention of America: 2.5 million members
11. The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS): 2.3 million members
12. The Episcopal Church: 2.0 million members
13. Churches of Christ: 1.6 million members
14. Pentecostal Assemblies of the World: 1.5 million members
15. The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church: 1.4 million members
And the "mainline" denominations that have embraced homosexuality have been declining in membership, while those that hold to the Scriptural standards on issues of sexuality have been growing. There has been a big growth in "non-denominational" evangelical churches.
” There has been a big growth in “non-denominational” evangelical churches. “
I’m in one. They are indeed growing.
Unlike what didn't happen to the scouters/scouters in Salt Lake City yesterday who marched in the gay pride parade in their BSA uniforms (nothing), any charter institution, e.g., church, that blatantly snubs the rules can have its charter revoked by the local council. There will always be progressive activists out looking to make a "federal" case on any BSA unit that flounts the rules. Why would you want to stay in such an organization? Your annual registration fee, uniform and literature expenses all go to "feeding the beast."
The Catholic Church should not precipitously sever connection with the Boy Scouts but should be expeditiously building a Catholic Scouts or becoming part of a larger Christian Scouts organization. If that great organization has decided to cut its own throat there is no reason Catholic, at least, boys have to get the blood on their own uniforms.
It’s shameful that the BSA caved. It would have been a far better outcome that they demonstrated their conviction to their principles (as they teach their young men) rather than follow the money.
Maybe the poobahs in the organization got tired of the hassle and just decided to fold without looking like quitters. Instead of actually killing it they create conditions such that it will die of asphyxiation.
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