Boy Scouts forced to decamp from church

Boston Globe ^ | 11/11/2001 | Joel Warner

[Buffalo Bob]

Boy Scout photos cover the basement walls of the Green Bar room in the United Parish Church in Brookline. On one wall hangs a letter written by Lady Baden-Powell, the wife of scouting's founder, thanking Brookline's Troop 6 for its contributions to an international project.

[Buffalo Bob]

No doubt, the insane have taken over the asylum.

[vin-one]

A church group un-freakin-believable.....
The boy scouts, have every right to ban anyone from leadership roles.
But a church in Boston, oh well answered my own question Boston

[egarvue]

The Reverend Patricia Coughlin

That says a lot about where they fall in the theological spectrum. Being a pro-homosexual church isn't too far a leap from there.

[Waco]

WWJD

[an amused spectator]

"At some point, you have to recognize what's right," said Jack Pirozzolo a church deacon who worked with the Scouts on this issue.

I'll bet that good ol' Jack thinks Internet kiddie porn is just "intergenerational love", too. 'But it feels right, Judge,' whined Jack.

[lady lawyer]

The Muslims don't need to destroy us. We are destroying ourselves.

[joathome]

The Reverend Patricia Coughlin........

This church's stray from biblical male leadership tells 99% of the story. I left a church that had male leadership in name only. Got tired of the women talking about goddesses, and one even brought a cyrstal to gaze in at Easter vigil. Yuk. Women everyone. Complete male abdication of duty to God, church, and family.

[Just another Joe]

''At some point, you have to recognize what's right,'' said Jack Pirozzolo a church deacon who worked with the Scouts on this issue.

Apparently the deacon hasn't recognized this yet.

The Reverend Patricia Coughlin agrees the decision opened divisions at church, but she said she is confident the church made the right choice.

The Reverend either

These people have not acknowledged the fact that if you put a wolf among sheep, the wolf survives and the sheep become hagis.

JaJ Eagle Scout

[Texbob]

Let the Queer lovers continue their anti Boy Scout bias, the Boy Scouts will end up sending all of them back into the Closet Of SHame where they belong.

[Bob Evans]

and so far, were doing a damm good job!

[Clovis_Skeptic]

''At some point, you have to recognize what's right,'' said Jack Pirozzolo a church deacon who worked with the Scouts on this issue.

and this church of inequity, appears to be a l o n g way from recognizing truth.

Just wait, someday a parent is going to sue cause there son was molested by a homosexual troopleader, and there arguement will be that the Scouts were neglegient due to their knowing the troopleader was a homosexual. or something like that.

[gohabsgo]

I just called the church at 617 277-6860. A gal answered. I said: "I'd like to talk to someone there about the church's decision to exclude the Boy Scouts after this great organization had been expelled from the church for their position on homosexual troop leaders." she said she was not the person to talk to and asked to take my name and number. I told her my name and left my number and said.

"I am very disappointed that your church would be so cowardly as to knuckle under to these hideous people who want to punish these innocent boys. God bless the Boy Scouts and the people who have the courage to defend them.

God Bless the Boy Scouts. The Supreme Counrt defends the Scouts rights to decide who will lead the boys and who will not. God Bless the Boy Scouts." This poor gal was not happy hearing this, but it's not her fault. She just answers phones.

Freepers: call 617 277-6860. Enough people call and they make reverse themselves just like the Salvation Army. Thanks, Patrick

[GeekDejure]

Hey guys . . . get the hell out of that satanic church, the quicker the better !!! You'll find someplace else in wich to abide that really believes and HONORS the Word of Almighty God !!!

Do NOT sacrifice your principals merely to please a bunch of satanists in clever disguise . . . and never forget that "A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent" !!!

[XA-3Whaler]

People you've got to ask yourselves, where is this all going?

Probably to Hell in a hand bag.

[mbb bill]

Don't force the kids into a queer bunch. Their character is far more important..

[KansasConservative1]

In the end times, the church (major portions) will fall away from biblical teachings and fall from God's will. This is a step in that direction. What part of Abomination does that church not understand.

[Clemenza]

BTW: This is in Barney Fwank's congressional district.

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

"[C]hurch members demanded the local Scouts publicly repudiate the national policy."

. . . much as this church has repudiated Scripture.

"Coughlin said. . .'It is critically important for children to see people taking a stand against things in life that are plain wrong.'"

Yes it is important, and I am confident that the irony of this statement is lost entirely on the "reverend." I doubt that even the people of Sodom and Gomorrah were so deluded as to actually think they were taking the moral high ground. Coughlin's moral reasoning is like something from a sci-fi parallel universe where good is evil and evil is good.