You should get life in jail for wearing that.
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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Mike Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, is heard on more than 200 talk radio stations nationally as part of the Premiere Radio Network.
The question is not whether they will be granted anything by you, the government, or society at large, but rather whether you, the government, or society have the right to modify their actions, specially when those actions are causing no harm other than to your sensitivities.
Far as I can tell, you don't have a constitutional right not to be disgusted by the actions of others.
Such as legally protected sexual perversions. You actually thought you were making a point?
Sodomy equals necktie patterns?
You should get life in jail for wearing that.
Actually, it's not: They just told you that to make you feel better when you felt hated. Sorry, I don't mean to hurt your feelings but someone had to tell you the truth sooner or later.
I've suspected the truth all along, and now, you've finally outted me.
I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body.
I disagree - and I would think ministers would discuss such topics from the pulpit if they believed that the congregation needed to know.
Well most ministers would disagree with you..because there are no mainstream Christian ministers who engage in broadcasting the sort of sickening vile descriptions of sexual depravity we have seen posted on these board.
Jesus NEVER engaged in graphic descriptions of sexual immorality...and in fact never even spoke of homosexuality..because it was unnecessary.
faggots want to just be scout leaders?
Words mean things. To pervert something means to change it from its original intention.
Homoerotic activity is a perversion because it perverts the intention(s) of sexual behavior. Only if you believe the universe is not designed can you believe that homoerotic acticity is not a perversion. But if you believe that, then no erotic activitiy is a perversion since there is no design.
Don't confuse a person's "perversions" with a person's "preferences." This degeneration of language is dangerous.
Shalom.
Can you please provide a link. :)
Ok, but please don't overgeneralize. Ministers deal in the truth. There are those who are more interested in keeping the pews full and the donations flowing, but there are many who tell the truth regardless. I don't know of any study that has been done to tell which group has the greater numbers, and I don't know of any way to make such a study unbiased.
Jesus NEVER engaged in graphic descriptions of sexual immorality...and in fact never even spoke of homosexuality..because it was unnecessary.
Jesus NEVER had to. He did discuss those who sacrificed their children to foreign gods by burning them to death. That's not something we have to deal with in this day and age. We have to deal with people who engage in fisting, and who try to teach school children how to do the same. If you're sitting around thinking that queer love is just like straight love, you might need some graphic descriptions to help you make the distinction.
Jesus did know how to call a spade a spade. See Matthew 23.
Shalom.
The correct concept here, and I believe this is the way the Bible portrays it, is one of a cancer. You are successful in treating a cancer if you remove it before it actually starts to harm your body. If you discover a tumor while it is doing no harm to you you have the best chance of discovery. If you wait until it actually does harm your chances of success are very small.
Sin is a cancer, and individual sins corrupt an entire society. If you wait until the society is corrupt, it is too late. Just look at the "greed" of the 1980s and they way it actually hurt thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, when the dot-com bubble burst. Individual sins practiced privately - huge social cost.
The tightrope we walk is understanding which of these we can impact by public policy and law, and which we can't.
Homosexual activity is not any near the tightrope. It is way off to the left. That's why it has been illegal in nearly every society in the history of mankind. It is dangerous to let people continue in that sin, even privately. It eventually becomes public and harms a society. Why? That's philosophizing, but if you ask me, it's because those who hate themselves must look outside themselves for acceptance. At least that's probably the way the Act-Up movement started.
On a related note, I have discovered that there are many Yahoo clubs devoted to encouraging people to get fat. I mean chearleeding for people who gain over 300 pounds. Can you see any reason for that? I can only see the reason I noted in the previous paragraph.
Shalom.
For who can do battle with your 78-sided shield of deflection and subterfuge.
Meanwhile you support the homosexual agenda.
Meanwhile you want boy scouts to be fondled.
Yes, as you say it, you win.
Congradulations, go eat a banana split.
Jesus NEVER had to.
My point exactly.
He did discuss those who sacrificed their children to foreign gods by burning them to death. That's not something we have to deal with in this day and age. We have to deal with people who engage in fisting, and who try to teach school children how to do the same. If you're sitting around thinking that queer love is just like straight love, you might need some graphic descriptions to help you make the distinction.
You actually think homosexuality is some modern activity that Jesus didn't have to talk about back in his day?
The fact is homosexuality is acknowledged in the OLD Testament..long before Jesus. The Bible speaks of drag queens and cross dressers in the Old Testament.
Jesus didn't mention incest and bestiality either.
The idea that people now need graphic descriptions of things that have gone on for 1,000s of years is silly.
Jesus didn't talk about things that were simply unspeakable and anybody who had any sense knew it.
Those who broadcast this sort of vulgar garbage on these boards are clearly not doing so in the name of holiness...but out of their desire to throw mud at those they have personal hatred for.
Jesus did know how to call a spade a spade. See Matthew 23.
You read Matthew 23. And then show me where Jesus described filthy vile acts of sexual perversion in any of His sermons.
You can't. Because He didn't.
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