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Robert Gates to Boy Scouts: Surrender Your Principles
Crisis Magazine ^ | May 27, 2015 | JASON MORGAN

Posted on 05/27/2015 3:27:38 PM PDT by NYer

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To: NYer
** we “must deal with the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.” **

Nothing like squashing a kid's aspirations. Depriving him off his idealism... Changing the world for the better used to be what we were supposed to do when we grew up.

Mother Theresa saw the world as it was, and by whichever person God chose to put in her life, made it better- without compromising her principles in the process.

Jesus warmed about scandalizing the young ones: in our world, and perhaps at any time in the world's history, taking away a child's hope for a better future for himself and his children; telling him to be satisfied with the status quo, and not to rock the boat; telling him to accept what is morally wrong, because, well, that's the way it is- that's scandalizing. Just as bad: it's depriving the world of these boys' chance and ability to make it a better one.

Maybe this guy should just retire with his gigantic pension, and enjoy the world as he helped make it.

21 posted on 05/27/2015 4:55:38 PM PDT by Grateful2God (Because no word shall be impossible with God. And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord...)
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"In a speech to the Boy Scouts on May 21, Dr. Robert Gates... laid out his vision for how the link between God and country...could, and should, be broken."

Obviously spoken by a man who broke his link with between God and country a long time ago, and has been on the dark side since.
22 posted on 05/27/2015 5:21:50 PM PDT by hawaiianninja (Palm note to Americans: "Vote conservative, please! Pray for America!")
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To: NYer
Gates is a weasel.

He has no moral compass.

The National Committee has had
Sodomites for well over twenty years.

A Supreme Court Justice of Colorado,
in his BSA National committee uniform,
made this same recommendation,
twenty-five years ago to
adult leaders, in Denver.

Billie boy: ,
You can have my Vigil Honor,
and my Silver Beaver.

I spent twenty-five years in,
the Denver Area Council
keeping the Sodomites out.

If Gates were moral and,
trustworthy, he would,
recommend dissolving the BSA
rather turning over young men
over to NAMBLA.


23 posted on 05/27/2015 6:36:24 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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To: NYer

the bsa used to be a great organization; however, nobody ever stated or defined what morally straight was. Whose morals were they defining? God’s, the democrap party’s??


24 posted on 05/27/2015 7:08:19 PM PDT by Coleus (For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.)
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What the Boy Scouts really need is to improve their image, and to demonstrate their patriotism for a new generation. Basically, they need a timely rebranding. To that end I propose that they should adopt a name change, and from this point on should call themselves the Obama Youth.


25 posted on 05/27/2015 8:27:20 PM PDT by cothrige ("An error which is not resisted is approved; a truth which is not defended is suppressed" Felix III)
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Bwhahaha!! I’m sure Joseph Goebbels has a great grandson or two who could become “Youth Masters”


26 posted on 05/27/2015 8:29:33 PM PDT by smvoice (I would explain it better, but I only know a few words...)
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To: Norm Lenhart; GeronL
16 This is what he was hired to do. The BSA bigwigs want to surrender and they hired him to take the blame.

17 Easy BIG money and he has only to sacrifice something he never had in the first place to get it. Integrity. ...

Just to be clear - the position of the National President of the BSA is a volunteer position. So are the officers (~27) of the National BSA Executive Committee. They pay their own freight to meetings and are expected to secure major donations to the BSA National Office in Irving, TX. In return, they, the corporate leaders of the Fortune 500, get to call the tune that the BSA professionals (including the Chief Scout Executive) must dance too.

27 posted on 05/28/2015 12:24:14 AM PDT by MacNaughton (" ...it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism." Whitaker Chambers)
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I would guess that having his position on ones resume opens all kinds of money doors off the books as well as on, jack up his speaking fees, get him larger book bonuses and larger appearance fees for television. Because every similar ‘volunteer’ position is taken for just that reason.


28 posted on 05/28/2015 12:44:24 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: NYer

Thanks for posting the article.

Bob Gates is a POS!

I learned much about teamwork, leadership, patriotism, camping skills, etc., as a Cub and then a Scout.

It’s really disheartening to see how the BSA has devolved into a liberal organization that now OKs gays and PC.


29 posted on 05/28/2015 6:02:11 AM PDT by octex
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Gate’s and his boyfriend must not be talking again.


30 posted on 05/28/2015 7:47:33 AM PDT by NKP_Vet ("All the evils in the world are due to lukewarm Catholics" ~ Pope Pius V)
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To: NYer

TRAIL LIFE USA is growing rapidly in the southern Indiana counties near Louisville.


31 posted on 05/28/2015 6:51:56 PM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: John Leland 1789

I am a TRAIL LIFE USA area leader (former BSA commissioner) here in Virginia. My inbox has been overrun lately with folks looking for a solid alternative to the BSA.


32 posted on 06/09/2015 7:38:31 AM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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