Posted on 06/25/2013 2:12:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, one of the largest nonprofit secular groups in America, ran an ad on Sunday in The New York Times asking why the Boy Scouts of America is maintaining its ban on nonreligious members after having changed its policy to now accept gay members. A pro-family group believes FFRF is right in its questioning.
"The bottom line is, Scouting has now removed any logical or legal basis for protecting against the inclusion of openly gay scout masters, so in a sense this group is perfectly correct," Rob Schwarzwalder, senior vice president for the Family Research Council, told The Christian Post on Tuesday.
FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor argued that although the secular group is supportive of the Boy Scouts' recent decision to allow openly gay members, the question remains: "Why is it still choosing to exclude and shun nonreligious boys and their families?"
The Boy Scouts oath reads: "On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight." A BSA membership form also states that "no member can grow into the best kind of citizen without recognizing his obligation to God."
The cartoon that accompanies the FFRF ad depicts a Boy Scout looking at the badges on his uniform, saying, "This one's for swimming. This one's for woodcraft. This one's for religious bigotry . . ."
FFRF argued, "The intellectual rejection of claims for which there is no evidence is not only respectable, but vital to progress. What should not be respectable is treating any American, whether young or old, as a second-class citizen."
The Boy Scouts lifted its ban on openly gay youths during a meeting in May, when 61 percent of the 1,400 delegates voted in favor of a resolution to lift the ban and 39 percent voted in opposition. The ban on gay adult leaders remains.
Schwarzwalder sent CP a detailed issue brief that analyzes the Boy Scouts' decision, noting that the organization's membership stance now becomes hard to defend from a logistical basis.
"[I]t is absurd for Scouting to have adopted the new policy and concurrently assert that homosexual men are more of an inherent threat to, or more undesirable roles models for, boys. As anyone familiar with Scouting knows, older boys mentor and lead younger boys in Cub Scout dens and Boy Scout troops. If a self-professed gay teenager is a good role model for boys up to the age of 17 years, 365 days, why does his example suddenly become untenable for boys the day he turns 18?" the brief notes.
The conclusion of the brief, written by Schwarzwalder, states that the new policy now creates mandatory exposure of boys to homosexuality.
FRC predicts: "The entry of 'avowed' homosexual Scout leaders into the organization; a loss of parental control in the way their sons are familiarized with issues of sexual intimacy and controversy; and the decline of Scouting as an institution, given the hundreds of thousands of families that now will leave Scouting."
Being a “bigot” means you won’t let them rape you up the ***.
They’re right. So let’s ban the gays again. The atheists said so.
Secular Group Questions Why Boy Scouts Won’t Accept Atheists After Lifting Ban on Gays ???
They are a bunch of fags?
It’s too late to close the barn door now, but to answer the question: Because as Americans, we have FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION.
Last I knew the head of the FFRF was also a minister in the United Church of Christ. Same denomination as Rev. Wrights church.
Whine, whine whine. Why can’t I wear a ruffled pink Boy Scout uniform?
“Jude1:4
For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.”
Couldn’t be more ‘spot-on’. Bless U.
Something about a horse... a barn.... and a door.
That didn’t take long.
If homosexuality were an encouraged activity by Christians the majority of today's homosexual activists would not exist and they would frown on the perverts having anything to do with children in groups such as the Boys Scouts.
Yes, of course there are homosexuals who have joined the anti-Christian activists, many of them thinking that it's legitimately "pro-gay", just like many freedom loving Egyptians joined the protests in Cairo which we now know was started by the Muslim Brotherhood.
These people are anti-God.
Obama is ANTI-Christian. There is NO way he can support gay marriage and be Christian. No way. So, the man lied about his religion. He even slipped on ABC and referred to Islam as his religion and the interviewer on ABC corrected him.
Obama lied when he said he was Christian. He is not. In fact, he is very likely Muslim first. Muslims will forgive him for supporting homosexual activists in America because they know they are really anti-Christian activists and they also know that Obama’s stance on such issues is anti-American and will someday bring this nation down.
The muzzies believe it’s okay to lie as long as the objective is to destroy Christianity, Israel and America. It’s okay if Obama claims he is Christian. They know where he’s coming from.
It’s a sad state when I have concluded that Putin is more pro-American than our President. A sad state.
I would a whole lot rather associate with an atheist than I would a queer. Fact of the matter, 98% of queers are atheists.
NAMBLA is considering suing the Scouts because its members cannot yet become Scout Leaders.
Well done.
they chose to jump on the slip-n-slide what did they expect
like the UK scouts?
the slippery slope begins.
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