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Alabama Episcopal Bishop Kee Sloan asks churches to sponsor Boy Scouts
The Birmingham News ^ | 6/20/2013 | Greg Garrison

Posted on 06/21/2013 6:18:47 AM PDT by MacNaughton

Bishop Kee Sloan, head of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, has posted a letter asking churches to sponsor Boy Scout troops. In apparent response to the Southern Baptist Convention's resolution opposing the Boy Scouts' decision to accept openly gay scouts, Sloan wants Episcopal churches to step forward to host troops that may need a meeting place.

Southern Baptist Convention President Fred Luter said while in Birmingham last weekend that his church, Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, plans to stop hosting its Boy Scout troop.

First Baptist Church of Pelham and First Baptist Church of Helena have also announced plans to stop hosting Boy Scout troops.

Sloan posted the following statement on the web site of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama:

"Recently the leadership of another denomination has decided to distance that denomination from the Boy Scouts of America, in response to the national BSA structure's decision about involving or including people who are homosexual. I do not want to intrude into another institution's controversies or difficulties - either that denomination's or the Scout's - we have enough to deal with on our own. But it's boys and young men who will be most affected by this decision, as their Boy Scout Troops might well be turned away from the local church that has been sponsoring them, and I do want for us to respond to that as appropriate. I am asking you to be mindful of the Boy Scout Troops in your community, especially those who will no longer be able to meet and have some of their activities in some of the churches. I am asking that our parishes extend our Lord's hospitality, and consider sponsoring a Boy Scout Troop."

"As clearly as I can I want to say and I want you to be able to say that I am not at all interested in criticizing another denomination of our Lord's one holy catholic and apostolic Church; I am not at all interested in taking a side in the ongoing argument about sexuality in the Scouting movement. I am interested in extending hospitality, as one institution torn by this controversy to another, to the boys and young men of the Boy Scouts of America, and to the adults who give their time and energy to work with them."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: boyscouts; ecusa; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; religiousleft
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To: allendale
One cannot bail out a boat once it has sunk. You need to get a new boat or drown.

And, as someone has pointed out above, it is the height of irresponsibility to send your children to an organization that promotes sexual deviancy.

21 posted on 06/21/2013 7:16:03 AM PDT by jboot (It can happen here because it IS happening here.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Salvation Army is STILL a Christian organization.


22 posted on 06/21/2013 7:19:04 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: stars & stripes forever

I view AA as a starting point.


23 posted on 06/21/2013 7:20:53 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: moovova

I view AA as a starting point, getting those addicted on the road to recovery.


24 posted on 06/21/2013 7:22:49 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Biggirl

It is still a Christian organization, but those who accept United Way money in my area are not allowed to mention JESUS CHRIST except during Sunday services.


25 posted on 06/21/2013 7:26:04 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever ((Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!))
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To: MacNaughton

If a Church allows a gay Ministry of course they would sponsor a gay Boy Scout.

More targets.


26 posted on 06/21/2013 7:28:52 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: stars & stripes forever

Your opinion and your opinion only.


27 posted on 06/21/2013 7:31:10 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Got to remember that, when a disaster takes place, the Salvation Army is the first or among the first to be at the scene, even before the local churches.


28 posted on 06/21/2013 7:33:14 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: MacNaughton

Why not use Episcopal churches for boy scouts and meetings? According to attendance figures, they aren’t using them for anything else...

The only thing holding many of these churches together are endowments and inheritances from many years ago, when people left the church money because they actually STOOD for Christianity. They have been bleeding members ever since.


29 posted on 06/21/2013 7:37:37 AM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: Biggirl
I support the Salvation Army. My prayer is that they don't completely succumb to secularism like Scouts and AA.
30 posted on 06/21/2013 7:39:22 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever ((Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!))
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To: Biggirl

“Your opinion and your opinion only.”

Have you ever applied for United Way funding?

As a recipient of United Way funding, any organization will not and does not exclude, deny benefits to or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, disability, pre-disposing genetic characteristics, marital status or domestic violence victim status in its admission to, participation in or receipt of services, benefits and/or employment, whether carried out directly or through a contracted entity.


31 posted on 06/21/2013 7:46:10 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever ((Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!))
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To: Westbrook
fecund

adjective 1. producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful: fecund parents; fecund farmland.

That's what I like about FR. I learn something every day.

32 posted on 06/21/2013 8:04:38 AM PDT by super7man
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To: allendale

by their vote they left us, not the other way round. let them retake the vote.


33 posted on 06/21/2013 8:16:59 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Biggirl

Yet the term “believing in a higher power” is part of AA.
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Some people in AA make up their own conception of God, which is NOT the Almighty God. It’s a false god.

Maybe it’s Baal.


34 posted on 06/21/2013 9:52:29 AM PDT by BarbM (Portuguese Dog--Kenyan president)
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To: Mamzelle
6 Wondering about this Pisky preacher. Does he perform the new homosexual sacrament?

After the 2012 TEC General Convention where the resolution to develop homosexual marriage rites was passed, this particular bishop said that his diocese would essentially ease into it. Not saying it hasn't started in AL, but I haven't heard that it has.

35 posted on 06/21/2013 12:22:32 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: MacNaughton

Great recruiting tool for both pedophiles and church members! No wonder a homosexual church like TEC is going for it.


36 posted on 06/21/2013 3:01:54 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: stars & stripes forever

I don’t give to United Way. I give to the Salvation Army instead. And i make it clear every time the United Way tries to strongarm me.


37 posted on 06/21/2013 3:03:59 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: stars & stripes forever

Salvation Army will not accept United Way money, at least here.


38 posted on 06/21/2013 3:06:14 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: MacNaughton

39 posted on 06/21/2013 7:39:45 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: MacNaughton; Chode

Episcopagan. I’m not surprised in the least.


40 posted on 06/22/2013 9:02:43 PM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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