Posted on 05/19/2003 6:01:32 AM PDT by SJackson
It’s happening again, another badly misguided local United Way chapter banning any UWA funds from going to the Boy Scouts groups because they won’t allow homosexuals to be scout masters – a constitutional right assured the Boy Scouts of America by no less than the United States Supreme Court.
Incredibly, at a time when critics are attacking Roman Catholic dioceses in the U.S. for allowing gay priests to have access to teenage boys, thus exposing them to the strong possibility of molestation, others are demanding that gay scout leaders be allowed the same kind of risky access to teenage boy scouts.
Since the Supreme Court ruled in June 2000 that the national Boy Scouts of America (BSA) organization did not have to accept homosexuals because it is a private organization, about 50 local United Way chapters, including Seattle and San Francisco, have gutlessly surrendered to pressure from gay groups and stopped contributing to them, according to CBS News.
Now comes the Miami-Dade United Way (UW) chapter which says it will no longer give nearly a half-million dollars a year to the local chapter of the BSA after June, because the scouts won’t provide some asinine be-nice-to-gays-they’re-normal-just-like-us "sensitivity" training program for its leaders.
According to an Associated Press report, the local UW's board of directors voted unanimously to discontinue the annual $480,000 grant - about 20 percent of the Scouts’ budget. Most of that money goes to programs in the area's poorer communities, the AP reported.
"It's a serious blow to the council's ability to deliver Scouting programs," scout council spokesman Jeff Herrmann told the AP.
The local UW claims it made its decision because the Boy Scouts reneged on an alleged 2001 pledge to put into effect training programs to help Scout leaders to be "sensitive" in dealing with kids who have trouble coping with sexuality, a pledge to which Herrmann flatly denies the scouts ever agreed.
"Sex education and sexual orientation are not part of our program and we're unwilling to make them part of our program," he told AP.
The Miami-Dade UW is the latest to cut off the Boy Scouts in Florida. The UWs of Broward and Palm Beach County stopped allocating funds to Boy Scout programs about two years ago.
Their actions provoked a firestorm of protests and cost both United Way chapters dearly. When the United Way of Broward stopped giving funds to the Boy Scouts in 2001, one couple donated $200,000 to the South Florida Council, which oversees scouting programs in Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties. The Palm Beach County UW says it has lost about $500,000 in donations after it stopped giving the Gulf Stream Council of Boy Scouts money from the United Way general fund.
Good! Americans shouldn’t put up with these threats to the welfare of young scouts. We can start by making direct contributions to the Boy Scouts along with other groups when our local UWAs cravenly surrender to homosexual pressures and cut funding for the scouts, and we should boycott the United Way chapter and urge others to do the same.
Companies should inform United Way they will not give if UW insists on getting involved in such social engineering practices. If your employer has a UW drive, don’t be afraid to ask if they support the Boy Scouts. Ask before you give a cent.
We must understand that gay groups are attempting to undermine the decision of the United States Supreme Court. Certain UW chapters are being foolish enough to listen to them. They cannot be allowed to succeed.
America’s war against terrorism is not the only war we are fighting. We are also engaged at home in a struggle to restore decency and morality in the public square. The battle to protect our children from those who seek an opportunity to corrupt them is a battle we cannot afford to lose.
Some observers have predicted that if homosexual activists continue their relentless attacks on the nation’s moral underpinnings they will inevitably create a backlash that will send them reeling back into the closet.
Fine. Let the backlash begin.
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I remember the topic of this thread perfectly.
The United Way in Miami is cutting the funding to the BSA.
I guess what yo are saying here is that the United Way is wholly owned and operated by homosexuals?
What's interesting is that instead of commenting on the actions of the United Way, you would rather get your rocks off using words like "queer" and "pervert". I guess I must have stumbled on to the Junior High School version of FreeRepublic.com
As long as you have finally decided to address the actual topic of this thread, what do you have to say about the United Way's Miami Division's decision?
All of them. What should they do?
What people of faith should do is teach faith to their kids.
And vote.
So you favor censoring them from speaking in the public square? You favor censoring them from trying to teach others about what is true and what is not because their knowledge of truth comes from their faith? Isn't that kind-of anti-first ammendment?
Also, you never answered my other question. Are you making a distinction between religious morality and non-religious morality?
Shalom.
The fact is that people do engage in them. If you find the acts themselves disgusting, would you not think those who engage in them are sick?
Shalom.
Once again, your "guess" is a silly strawman; the truth is more sinister.
Of course the United Gay is not wholly owned and operated by homosexuals. Rather, it is operated by ordinary people who are easily intimidated and cowed into submitting to the pro-sodomy agenda by a tiny minority of human beings who insist on defining their public core existence according a private sexual perversion. It is a microcosm what is happening in US culture in general.
This tiny minority of sexual perverts is forcing a rewrite of our laws to give them power to imprison and jail anyone who dares to call their perversion perversion (hate crime legislation; see e.g., Canada for the model). This tiny minority is trying to bully good youth organizations such as the Boy Scouts into placing young men at risk of the minority's sexual predations. This tiny minority, which has already hijacked the largest plurality of health-reserach dollars (extorted from the taxpayer) into paying for research into how to treat the minority's willfull and wonton transmission of deadly STDs including AIDS so the minority may continue to indulge with impunity in gross septic sexual practices more promiscuously than any lesser self-respecting creature in the animal kingdom.
And you stupidly defend this minority, Luis. You cheer their gaystapo tactics and you welcome the Gay New World they are forcing on the rest of us.
No Kevin, it's WAAAAAY simpler than that.
It's owned and operated by people who do not agree with your views on this subject. People who exercise their God-given, Constitutionally-guaranteed right to express their own opinions.
Not people who live in fear of Ninja Fags or Black Homocopters.
The dreaded Gay New World order!!
Gays finally saying that they've been here all along is going to destroy society!!
Why don't you wake up, smell the coffee, and place blame where blame belongs Kevin?
WE began the destruction of the moral fabric of America decades ago, we heterosexuals did it. We destroyed traditional American values Kevin, the "gay agenda" is a symptom of the disease we inflicted on society.
We did it with our Sexual Revolution, with our need for carefree, commitment free, consequence-free sex. Gay people simply want in on what we started!
We did it with our desire to find ways to destroy the constitution of marriage through no-fault divorce, the habit of cohabitating without being married, the popularity of swinging...so much more. You worry about the gay community destroying the sacrament of marriage, when in fact, by sheer power of numbers, they can't possibly harm it as much as we already have! Look around you, marriage isn't even thought to be a requirement to have children these days.
I defend the right of every single one of the citizens of this nation to speak their mind, and to ask the government for redress. I defend the right of every single citizen to challenge the status quo and to demand to be heard. You on the other hand, would rather have a segment of the population not heard, not seen, and for them not to exercise their constitutional rights based on how you feel about their lifestyle. I believe, like Ronald Reagan believed, in freedom.
"Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions."---Ronald Regan
It's the same question that you want the law to ask in the Paople's Courtrooms across the nation.
I'm making a disctintion on that which is Caesar's, and that which is God's.
Should have read:
"I'm making a disctintion between that which is Caesar's, and that which is God's."
I find circumcision to be a savage, unnecessary act of ritualistic violence that's perpetrated on infants by a less-than-sanitary Mohel during the bris ceremony.
But my kids are Jewish, so I dealt with it.
and that what remained would be used to defend unborn baby murderers businessmen,
and sodomists who fight for the right to molest our children.
You pretend you are unaware of NAMBLA.
You pretend you are unaware of 4,400 murders for cash daily performed on babies.
You keep up this smoke and mirrors rationalization while these child molesting and "in your face, God!" faggots and baby murderers continue on course, sticking to their game plans.
The belief that all men are created equal is enforced by our government (whether well or poorly is another debate). On what basis do we claim that all men are created equal?
Even simpler question for you, Luis (which you seem to hate to answer). Do you make a distinction between religious morality and non-religious morality?
Shalom.
Shalom.
Are you making a distinction between religious and non-religious morality?
Shalom.
A little melodramatic aren't you?
By the way, our forefathers whouldn't have a clue about what you are talking about there.
You should try using words that actually exist.
A sodomy entitlement.
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