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Boy Scouts Approve Plan To Accept Openly Gay Boys
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Posted on 05/23/2013 3:20:16 PM PDT by Pyro7480

Edited on 05/23/2013 4:27:29 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: Black Agnes
Why not retain the basic organization and just change the name? Same scouts, same leaders, slightly different uniforms and no gays.

That's not likely to work. Any large organization is going to face the same pressures and demands. And Scouting just doesn't have as wide an appeal as it once did. If anything comes along in the future to replace the BSA, it won't just be the same thing run in the same way with a different name.

81 posted on 05/23/2013 3:41:52 PM PDT by x
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To: Pyro7480

They basically went with the “new” Mormon perspective on homos: “Let ‘em in”.

No question now the culture has become left-wing on social issues. The 60% vote shows this.

FReepers who denigrate gay marriage polls saying they do not reflect actual beliefs are wrong — the country has gone insanely liberal.


82 posted on 05/23/2013 3:41:57 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: All

Boys can and do bully, and molest other boys. I would not allow my son to join such a group. If they want to form a new organization called ‘Gay Scouts of America’, then fine. But don’t expect me to enroll MY kid in it. As it is, I kept him out of BSA because of known homosexual men having access to young boys.

I’m so disappointed that they caved in. It’s a terrible example to fine scouts out there.

Now, I think they really WILL crumble.


83 posted on 05/23/2013 3:41:58 PM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: Norm Lenhart

Let them. Scouting isn’t and hasn’t been scouting in 30 years. PC took over long ago. I’m glad this will end it.

* Same thing my brother said when I asked him his opinion..Eagle Scout 25+ years ago


84 posted on 05/23/2013 3:42:20 PM PDT by rainee (Her)
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To: albie

You can already hear the court case.

“There are young gay scouts who have no one they can connect with, no one to look up to. They need me!”


85 posted on 05/23/2013 3:42:24 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Longbow1969

Hip, indeed — gay is the new black, apparently.


86 posted on 05/23/2013 3:42:31 PM PDT by KarenMarie (NEVER believe anything coming out of DC until it's been denied.)
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To: LUV W
“For 103 years,the Boy Scouts of America has been a part of the fabric of this nation,…

the very reason it is being targeted

87 posted on 05/23/2013 3:42:39 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: AlexW
Any guesses as to how much time the country has left?

Less than 10 years. That change that to THE WORLD.

88 posted on 05/23/2013 3:42:49 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: lowbridge

A “gay” activist just said it’s only the beginning...
And they will be making sure the BSs enforce this change...
Nazis all.


89 posted on 05/23/2013 3:42:55 PM PDT by matginzac
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To: Pyro7480

good bye funding!!!!!! Good bye groups!!!! GOOD BYE BOY SCOUTS as we knew it.


90 posted on 05/23/2013 3:43:03 PM PDT by pollywog ("O Thou who changest not, abide with me.".......)
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To: Pyro7480

This is a distraction to keep people’s eyes off of the Holder story.
It’s got TWO links on my local news site, and Holder’s story isn’t even mentioned.


91 posted on 05/23/2013 3:43:28 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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To: GeronL

I did! :)


92 posted on 05/23/2013 3:43:55 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos!)
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To: Joe Boucher

“Sort of like the Episcopal Church going over to the dark side.”
_________________________________________________

My boy scout troop was at my Episcopal Church, but that was back in the 50s.
In the 80s I was senior warden of a very old Episcopal church.
That church went over to the dark side and now has a gay priest.
I not only left the church, I left the whole dam* country.


93 posted on 05/23/2013 3:44:56 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: drewh

“While people have different opinions about this policy, we can all agree that kids are better off when they are in Scouting.......”

No we do not. We don’t need junior rump rangers using scouting to further their agenda.

I have just told my wife that in the future when Boy Scouts come to my door to sell their stuff...they are to be told sternly that because of their acceptance of homosexual members...they are to get off my property and not return. In the past, I have always bought stuff from them to support them....NO MORE!


94 posted on 05/23/2013 3:45:06 PM PDT by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: rainee

We have to accept reality and stop fighting to prolong that which has been corrupted. I hate it. But it is what it is.


95 posted on 05/23/2013 3:45:12 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: re_nortex

I think what’s going to happen is that people will start asking questions about how and when did a boy under the age of concent figure out he was gay.

I think parents of ‘gay’ boys will still probably avoid scouting, unless, of course, they are the adopted sons of two gay parents.

When that activism starts to root, I think you’ll see a backlash.

I also think the current board is going to end up getting fired.

This is the first shot in the war, not the last.

There was a line from High Plains Drifter that comes to mind:

“Promisin’s one thing, payin’s another.”

Once this hits their pocketbook, I think they’ll take another look.

I would agree with everyone here in saying that the world is getting worse. I guess that’s what has to happen before it ends.


96 posted on 05/23/2013 3:45:20 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Pyro7480

This vote was obviously rigged by their “leadership.” Now watch the real vote take place, which will be the mass exodus of decent, God-fearing families from this organization. So much for “morally straight.” RIP BSA.


97 posted on 05/23/2013 3:45:30 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ('He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that they cannot carry out their plans.' -- Job 5:12)
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To: NKP_Vet

Boy Scouts of America 1910-2013
Butt Boy Scouts of America 2013-


98 posted on 05/23/2013 3:45:39 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: Pyro7480

Sick, sad and such a shame.


99 posted on 05/23/2013 3:45:49 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
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To: LUV W

You said it!!!! SAD!!!!!


100 posted on 05/23/2013 3:46:02 PM PDT by pollywog ("O Thou who changest not, abide with me.".......)
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