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So the BSA says they will deny admittance to homosexual boy scout leaders, but will accept homosexual boy scouts. Have we, as a society, gone so far that 11 and 12 year old boys are now “coming out”? I know that we read about an occasional case here and there in the news, but is this a regular occurrence? I wouldn’t think so, but maybe it
is.

But what’s puzzling to me about Bishop Loverde’s statement, is simply this: just what is his complaint? Does he fault the BSA for taking the same position that the Catholic Church has always taken on homosexuals? The Church, rightly so, does not condemn or reject the homosexual; they condemn the sin of homosexual behavior. The BSA has not said that they’re okay with homosexual behavior, but just that if a 10 year old boy concludes he’s a homosexual (that’s still way beyond belief for me) that he will be admitted to scouting. Quite frankly, even if a 10 year old boy (who generally isn’t even interested in girls at that age) does believe he is a homosexual, I would think it would be an opportunity for scouting to open up his eyes (and perhaps those of his parents as well) that homosexual behavior is sinful and should not be practiced, regardless of one’s feelings.

So here is Loverde, casting aspersions against scouting because they appear to be agreeable in embracing the sinner and not the sin, while Loverde (and most every other bishop and priest) won’t even condemn homosexual behavior from the pulpit. Indeed, they won’t even say the word “homosexual”. They dance all around it when they argue against same sex marriage, but they never tell us homosexual behavior is a mortal sin. No wonder the Church is in serious trouble. The bishops, quite clearly, have about as much courage as those Brits who stood by and watched those to muslims slaughter that British soldier on the streets of London. But unlike the weak-kneed Brits, God will demand an accounting from the bishops.

The problem is that the BSA had always had, in effect, a policy of "don't ask, don't tell" with regard to boys who experience some degree of sex or gender confusion. BSA was simply not the place to make sexuality an issue, an announcement, or a coming-out venue.

And that's as it should be. It is not uncommon for some adolescent boys to suffer a certain amount of sexual uncertainness, particularly boys who are a bit late to mature. Scouting is (was) the place where boys learned a certain spoken or unspoken "manliness," without constantly having to take their emotional temperature about sex.

The problem with the "new" policy is that is that it allows the in-your-face, out-and-proud, look-at-meee-e-e- variety of LGBT identification and advocacy. And since that's still technically "orientation," a Scoutmaster can't curb boys talking, joking, acting and reacting on the basis of emotional neediness, horniness, or adolescent crushes, for fear of being called a hater and a bigot.

Sexualizing the Scouts is the LGBT goal. They quite candidly proclaim that this is the necessary Giant Step One.

“they won’t even say the word “homosexual”. They dance all around it when they argue against same sex marriage, but they never tell us homosexual behavior is a mortal sin”.

You obviously have never heard my bishop or parish priest.
Both have condemned homosexuality in Homilies and spoke out against homo “marriage”.

Pope John II said any man with strong homosexual tendencies should not be allowed into the priesthood. Some lied and slipped in and if found out they are engaging in this filthy behavior should be kicked out of the priesthood.