Posted on 02/07/2013 5:38:25 AM PST by NYer
.- The Boy Scouts of America have announced that they will delay voting on the decision to reverse a ban on gay individual and troop leader participation within the organization until May.
“After careful consideration and extensive dialogue within the Scouting family, along with comments from those outside the organization,” said Deron Smith, Director of Public Relations for the organization, “the volunteer officers of the Boy Scouts of America’s National Executive Board concluded that due to the complexity of this issue, the organization needs time for a more deliberate review of its membership policy."
Smith noted that committees will continue “to further engage representatives of Scouting’s membership and listen to their perspectives and concerns.”
The announcement comes on Feb. 6, the day the 1,400 voting members of the national council were supposed to either re-affirm or overturn the organization’s ban on gay members- including scout leaders. The decision affecting nearly 2.7 million members will now be delayed until May 2013.
In late January, Boy Scouts of America announced that they were considering ending their national ban on gay individuals and troop leaders in the organization following the loss of funding from high-profile donors such as UPS for their policy.
Smith added in a Jan. 28 statement that organizations that sponsor and oversee scouting groups, such as churches, would not be ordered “to act in ways inconsistent with that organization’s mission, principles, or religious beliefs.”
President Barack Obama has expressed support of an end to the organization’s current policy, which was upheld as a constitutional expression of free speech by the Supreme Court in 2000. “My attitude,” Obama said, “is that gays and lesbians should have access and opportunity the same way everybody else does, in every institution and walk of life.”
Family Research Council said it was “encouraged” by the delay in changing the national policy. Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council thanked the Boy Scouts for continuing to maintain their national membership standards and thanked the Scout parents who expressed “an overwhelming outpouring of support for maintaining the Scouts' timeless values.”
Perkins continued, saying that the delay was “not enough,” calling officials within the Boy Scouts of America to “publicly re-affirm their current standards, as they did just last July.” He also warned of “grave consequences,” should the Boy Scouts change their policy and compromise their moral standards in the face of threats from corporate elites and homosexual activists."
Over 40 organizations including Media Research Center, Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, Concerned Women for America, Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty and others have joined Family Research Council in asking Boy Scouts of America to retain the current national rule.
The organizations took out an advertisement in USA Today on Feb. 4, saying that the current rule is consistent with the Scout oath keep oneself “morally straight.” The ad also added that the current policy helps to protect scouts from sexual abuse and helps parents maintain control over their children’s sexual education. “To compromise moral principles under political and financial pressure,” the ad said, “would teach boys cowardice, not courage.”
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Why the faggots don’t start their own scout groups and leave the Boy Scouts alone is beyond me.
Just think, they could advertise that they have homo leaders and would be glad to have your children in their basement for meetings and with them on overnite campings. If they’re so damn proud of being homosexuals, then why not have their own groups.
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Not a good sign.
This should be cut and dried.
No Homo’s in the Scouts.
The fact that they kicked the can down the road has a bad feeling.
For the simple reason that they have an organization that is already established. All they need to do is show up. On the other hand how can you convince the main stream public that a "Gay scouts" is a reasonable alternative?
I disagree with you. If they had this much opposition in such a short period of time imagine what can be done if we have until May to inundate them with email, calls and letters.
Imagine the merit badges... hair styling, interior decorating, figure skating, fashion design...
Agreed.
The fact that they delayed the vote tells me 3 things:
A) The BSA leadership (ie. whoever has the power to delay the vote) wants to go lavender.
B) At present, they don’t have enough votes to go lavender.
C) The leadership believes they can find a way to get the votes given enough time.
Rather than do anything about the stagnant economy, the ticking time bomb of debt, or Iran’s rush to acquire nuclear weapons, the sick joke we are asked to regard as a president has turned his attention to promoting openly homosexual scoutmasters in the Boy Scouts................
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qTi57znk8w0
http://moonbattery.com/?p=25187
Here is one I built.
ACTUALLY: Boy Scouts delay vote on removal of morality & God from the organizations founding principles
The leftist media always frames these issues with false premise like any leftist propagandist would.
I’d like to really know what is happening inside the organization. Seems almost airtight in this regard.
truthful analysis. My wife and have already stopped buying girl scout cookies due to their chosen path. We will have to add any support for boy scouts to the list as well.
If homosexuals can control the youth of our nation, which they already seem to thru our culture and shows like Glee, then there is no turning back for our civilization without massive upheaval.
“I don’t want the whole world. Just your half.”
This has now shifted from the mere board of directors to the 1400 voting members of the BSA councils.
The time now is to “hit them when they are down”. The two insitgators, one of which is to assume the leadership, must now face a unified chorus demanding their resignations BEFORE the next meeting.
I think your points are right on target.
Sounds like they're assessing plans for damage control. No, not good.
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