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Homosexual ruling divides Big Brothers
WorldNetDaily ^ | October 19, 2002

Posted on 10/20/2002 7:13:45 AM PDT by scripter

At least a dozen executive directors of local Big Brothers Big Sisters affiliates are defying a new directive from national headquarters requiring them to allow homosexuals to mentor children of the same gender, according to a World magazine report.

The dissenting executive directors interviewed by the magazine spoke on condition of anonymity fearing reprisals from national headquarters and their own local directors. Local affiliates of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America are independently funded and managed, paying about $5,500 in annual dues for the privilege of using the organizational name, fund-raising machinery and administrative support.

One Midwestern director said he sent letters to the parents of 65 children on the affiliate's waiting list. Only "four or five" said they wouldn't mind homosexual, same-sex mentors for their children, he told the magazine. Another local director said "nearly 100 percent of the people who called us about this policy said, 'We don't want this.'"

Another director said he is "very concerned about putting children at risk" of molestation by homosexual mentors. While the organization still has rules forbidding the matching of girls with men mentors because of the potential for molestation, the new rule permits homosexual men to mentor boys.

One Big Brother affiliate executive director noted that donations are down 10 percent since the national office announced its directive, "Standard 22." She said concern about the new policy has "sapped our energy and our focus. It has taken countless man-hours and time and energy away from what we all want to be doing and that's serving kids." The affiliate has lost one staff person and one volunteer. Other volunteers have told the director they will not renew their commitments once their current match with a child has ended.

One local affiliate in Owensboro, Ky., has already resigned its affiliation with the national office and changed its name to "Quest for Kids." With its new moniker came a new mission: matching kids with Christian adults who could not only model biblical gender roles, but also, with parental permission, teach kids about Christ.

According to Quest for Kids board chairman Brad Rhoads, the group is now receiving donations from churches and other new sources and has not lost any Big Brothers donors.

Headquartered in Philadelphia, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America has provided adult mentors to kids for 98 years. Each of the 490 affiliates operates with near-total autonomy, adhering only to a set of general "standards of practice," which are meant to help children grow within mentoring relationships, while protecting them from physical or emotional harm. Local agencies appoint their own boards of directors, hire their own executive directors and staff, raise their own money, recruit their own mentors and tailor their own local screening procedures to ensure mentor fitness.

The national organization has argued that children are at no greater risk of being molested by a homosexual than by a heterosexual. Yet some studies counter that claim. The Journal of Sex Research found that homosexual pedophiles commit about one-third of the total number of child sex offenses in the United States, even though homosexuals make up no more than 5 percent of the U.S. population.

Just last month authorities charged Scott A. Wagner, 34, of Newark, Ohio, with raping a 12-year-old boy. The boy had been visiting Wagner's home as a client of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Licking County. On Sept. 27, a grand jury indicted Wagner on 73 child-sex related charges involving young boys. Also in September, the Columbus Dispatch reported two molestation cases from 2001 that involved assaults on young boys by Big Brothers in Toronto and Newton, Mass.

The national office reportedly declined to respond to World magazine's repeated requests for interviews about why the change in policy was made.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bigbrothers; bigsisters; homosexual; homosexualagenda
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1 posted on 10/20/2002 7:13:45 AM PDT by scripter
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2 posted on 10/20/2002 7:17:04 AM PDT by scripter
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Only "four or five" said they wouldn't mind homosexual, same-sex mentors for their children

That's "four or five" folks who need a serious ass-whoopin'!

3 posted on 10/20/2002 7:18:00 AM PDT by Buffalo Bob
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To: scripter
Sounds like the Owensboro, KY chapter has the right idea. Since the chapters raise their own money, why pay the $5,500 per year for nonsense like this?
4 posted on 10/20/2002 7:18:19 AM PDT by maximus@Nashville
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To: scripter
The link for the World Magazine article listed above will change with their next issue. This should be the permanent link.
5 posted on 10/20/2002 7:19:46 AM PDT by scripter
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To: Buffalo Bob
That's "four or five" folks who need a serious ass-whoopin'!

I know folks like that. They're die hard and blind democrats to anything this conservative ever discusses at parties.

6 posted on 10/20/2002 7:23:29 AM PDT by scripter
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You mean to tell me there are other people out there who are unwilling to open a game preserve for pedophiles? Hope for a Sunday morning.
7 posted on 10/20/2002 7:25:02 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay
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Another case of homophobes keeping upstanding fairies who really, really mean well from a great source of clean fresh meat. Hey, if society wants to curb the spread od AIDS in this country, one good way is to make uninfected boys available to mentoring fairies. Where do these fairies get the power to force what was once a well respected organization to change and risk jeopardizing even a single child? Statistics won't mean anything to the boy or the parents of the boy first molested by a mentor. We were supposed to be able to trust priests, weren't we?
8 posted on 10/20/2002 7:50:16 AM PDT by Tacis
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You know, I understand the concept that just because someone is homosexual does not make them a pedophile. That said, there sure seem to be plenty of legal efforts by the homosexual lobby to allow them unsupervised access to young children. Boy scouts, Big Brothers, etc. Why, of all things, is this such an important issue in that community? As a catholic I have to say I'm not too pleased with the way that worked out in my church and I'm less pleased that it isnt getting fixed. I certainly dont want to see that kind of trauma spread to other noble institutions.
9 posted on 10/20/2002 7:53:24 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie
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It's not about what is best for the children, it is about exposing them to as much deviancy as possible.
10 posted on 10/20/2002 8:07:47 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: pepsi_junkie
You are correct. I would be wary, if I had a little daughter, and some male neighbor or school official kept stating that he wanted to do stuff that kept him in constant contact with the child.
11 posted on 10/20/2002 8:10:39 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: scripter; All
"Another director said he is "very concerned about putting children at risk" of molestation by homosexual mentors. While the organization still has rules forbidding the matching of girls with men mentors because of the potential for molestation, the new rule permits homosexual men to mentor boys."

Let's not forget that girls are at risk if they are mentored by lesbians. As was shown in the thread "Meet 'Women's Auxiliary of NAMBLA'," lesbian pedophilia exists in significant numbers. While the rate of lesbian pedophilia isn't as great as "gay" pedophilia at the moment, it is a growing problem.


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12 posted on 10/20/2002 8:22:05 AM PDT by EdReform
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13 posted on 10/20/2002 8:24:45 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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Talk about homo-phobia. Come on, we all know how well homosexual prists behave themselves! Open up BB & BS, and the Boy Scouts! What's the worst that can happen? Duh!

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14 posted on 10/20/2002 8:31:16 AM PDT by logic101.net
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...new directive from national headquarters requiring them to allow homosexuals to mentor children of the same gender...

Well, this is certainly the end of 'Big Brothers Big Sisters' - - they have decided to propel themselves right down the toilet simply to appease the sodomy lobby and the Democrats. The objections of a few brave (but anonymous) people will not be enough to save the organization now, unless they act as quickly and decisively as The Salvation Army did last year.
And to think, I almost gave them a car.

"I love you, Homer."
And I love you too, Pepsi."
"Pepe."
"Whatever."

15 posted on 10/20/2002 8:39:50 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: scripter
Only "four or five" (of 65) said they wouldn't mind homosexual, same-sex mentors for their children...

The fact that it isn't ZERO really bothers me.

16 posted on 10/20/2002 8:40:29 AM PDT by Republic If You Can Keep It
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To: maximus@Nashville; scripter
Sounds like the Owensboro, KY chapter has the right idea. Since the chapters raise their own money, why pay the $5,500 per year for nonsense like this?

The local chapters could seceed from the national organization and found a new national umbrella organization that costs a fraction of the current organization.

17 posted on 10/20/2002 8:44:42 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Republic If You Can Keep It
The fact that it isn't ZERO really bothers me.

It's probably some ultra leftist parents who agree with all the PC garbage. I would imagine some of them might change their minds if their children were molested.

18 posted on 10/20/2002 8:46:19 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Lancey Howard
"This destruction of another fine American institution has been brought to you by Gaystapo, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Demcrat National Committee."
19 posted on 10/20/2002 8:47:02 AM PDT by Antoninus
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To: pepsi_junkie; yendu bwam; scripter
"You know, I understand the concept that just because someone is homosexual does not make them a pedophile. That said, there sure seem to be plenty of legal efforts by the homosexual lobby to allow them unsupervised access to young children. Boy scouts, Big Brothers, etc. Why, of all things, is this such an important issue in that community?"

Excellent question. Perhaps some of the homosexuals (and their supporters) who post here can tell us why the homosexual community is so desperate to have unsupervised access to young children. Why is there such an urgent need to have access to children?

Freeper yendu bwam has had to battle the homosexual community over access to his children in the Boy Scouts. From what I've read in his posts, the homosexuals were very vocal and aggressive about their "right" to mentor kids.

20 posted on 10/20/2002 8:48:02 AM PDT by EdReform
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