Surprise, surprise, surprise!
Posted on 05/27/2013 9:02:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Members of GLAAD, a nonprofit organization that promotes LGBT advocacy, was at the Boy Scouts of America's headquarters in Irving, Texas, on Friday – one day after the BSA's national council voted to allow openly gay membership – to advocate for additional policy changes acceptable to the gay community.
Former scouts Dave and Joe McGrath, a father and son duo who both earned the rank of Eagle Scout, biked 1,400 miles from Idaho Falls, Idaho, to the BSA's meeting in Grapevine to encourage the 1,400 voting delegates of the BSA's national council to vote in favor of the resolution to allow openly gay scouts, which passed by a vote of 61 to 39 percent. The ban on openly gay adult leaders is still in place.
On Friday, GLAAD documented Dave McGrath's entry into BSA headquarters to meet with staff and to deliver the LGBT community's 95 objections to their policies. Among these objections is the BSA's standing policy that bans adults who are openly gay from becoming scout leaders and volunteers.
Both factions of the scouting community – the LGBT scouts and traditional scouts – agree that the BSA's policies are now in conflict, because it accepts openly gay membership of students, but when they turn 18, they would then be ineligible to participate as scout leaders.
Many say the BSA's only option is to ask the national council delegates to vote on additional policy changes, possibly as soon as next year, to allow openly gay adults to become scout leaders and volunteers.
During Thursday's press conference outside the BSA's convention at the Gaylord Texan, Tico Perez, BSA national commissioner, refused to answer questions about lifting the ban on openly gay adults.
The policy change for openly gay youth will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2014, and will impact 116,000 scouting units, according to the BSA.
In a statement released Thursday evening, the BSA reiterated its support for the LGBT community by stating they wouldn't allow the organization to be "consumed by a single, divisive and unresolved societal issue."
"As the National Executive Committee just completed a lengthy review process, there are no plans for further review on this matter," the statement reads. "While people have different opinions about this policy, we can all agree that kids are better off when they are in Scouting."
Justin Bickford, communications director for Scouts for Equality, told CP on Thursday that their next mission is to push for openly gay leadership in the BSA. Many traditional scout leaders contend that gay adults are already serving as scout leaders and are doing so with discretion. Their disagreement is with the perceived sexual advocacy among the few LGBT leaders who were asked to leave the BSA for promoting their agenda.
John Stemberger, the founder of OnMyHonor, a coalition of scout leaders and parents of Boy Scouts members, consistently reiterated that gay scouts and gay scout leaders were actively participating in the BSA before Thursday's vote, and said there was never a ban on homosexuals in the scouts. According to Stemberger, "the BSA has a nondiscrimination policy," and the ban was on "gay activism" and "flaunting sexuality."
"With great sorrow, this will be last time I wear this uniform," Stemberger, whose coalition opposed membership changes, announced Thursday evening during the OnMyHonor press conference. He said his role will be to facilitate the process of deciding where the newly displaced scouting community will go, after being exiled from the BSA.
Stemberger said his movement includes "tens of thousands of parents, scouts that are disillusioned, troops that are going to fold and chartering partners."
On his website, OnMyHonor.Net, Stemberger has announced a June coalition meeting in Louisville, Ky., to "discuss the creation of a new character development organization for boys. We will host a national coalition meeting of former BSA parents and youth leaders who wish to return to timeless values that once made the BSA great."
Elizabeth Pritchard, the pack committee chair for Pack 928 in Southlake, Texas, told CP that she's been calling the American Heritage Girls to ask if they plan to start a program for boys. One program that has been announced is FaithBasedBoys.org, a newly created interdenominational organization for boys 5 to 18, that is scheduled to launch in the fall, and will receive guidance from American Heritage Girls.
Others who are departing the BSA en masse are waiting to see if the Royal Ambassadors, a Southern Baptist missions organization for boys in first through sixth grades, will be expanding their program to include the estimated 200,000 to 400,000 scouts who will be leaving the BSA.
Not much different. Their kid gets molested and they sue the life out of the BSA. You’d think if they loved their kid they would not put their kid in the BSA or Michael Jackson’s home in the first place!
Problem is we are losing. Human agency does play a role.
I will butt in and say that they’ve been careless about what spirit they follow.
I say let the queers be Scout Masters.
It will help close the whole thing down.
The sooner the better IMO.
Everyone who didn’t see this coming, please stand on your heads.
On second thought maybe different. The parents could not spend the night with their kid in Michael Jackson’s home. However if you put your kid in the BSA now then I suggest you join too and be with your kid every second and that includes all outings!! Never let your kid alone for one minute esp when he goes to the toilet. Also know who all the queer kids are like it is a sex offender registry.
Let’s get right with the Lord again... and all day long He holds His hands out to a rebellious people ready to welcome without damning if they will only hear the wooing of His spirit and let it begin to turn them around. Tragic moral spectacles like the one here are also permitted by the Lord to emphasize the need, if we will get our gazes out of our navels....
Where’s NAMBLA? I bet they’re SALIVATING at all the delights that are about to be presented to them.
...but the ‘mainstream’ LGBT groups likely told them SHUT UP and stay out, lest they lose it all.
There is more danger today than yesterday. Now will we allow that to be the warning to us that God has allowed to occur? That we look for His Spirit to begin turning us around? That means me and you too.
Wow! Not even a week and the Gaystapo is back.
Well, GLAAD seems to be doing a pretty fair job here....
The BSA is now in a hot fried pickle. GOOD! Let this wake “moral” people up to realizing they have to get SPIRITUAL! With God! They can NOT, NOT, NOT succeed with a morality that is based in a spirituality of SELF or of WORLD... not even their own segment of world. NOT.
Marxist homosexuals (Cultural Marxists in 30’s) infiltrated everything (Bella Dodd’s Book)-—Atheists/Sodomites all/ Kinsey/Hefner/Friedan/Hay—all to destroy us from within. They have to destroy the Natural Family and Christianity—two pillars of Western Civilization to destroy children and create “thinkers” like the little harem boys in Afghanistan who could care less about autonomy and a Free Republic. This is a regression to pagan/occult/Satanic Greek worldview.
Promoting anal sex is the easiest way to corrupt the innocence of children and make them into godless, immoral people (throws out the Bible), It warps their whole perceptions of human beings and Natural Laws (Reason)——much in the way that Chastity Bono was warped when she was raped by a Lesbian as a girl——easy, insecure people who can never trust anyone-—perfect people for a NWO and Brave New World.....just addicts to sins of the flesh and drugs and mutilation of the self who can never have healthy interactions with human beings since trust was destroyed.
Christianity is what created Common Law—The Magna Carta—the USA—(individuality—dignity and worth of all people); People who wanted to have Freedom of worship and that freedom to instill their own values and traditions into their children-—which makes life meaningful and people able to trust.
Traditions are being destroyed (as all good Marxists do) so they can erase all Christian ideas and the Judeo-Christian God from the minds of little children and make them look at others as objects for lust in Satanic ways—the fundamental philosophy of Marx and Islam-—people are a “means to an end”. Totalitarian control over all human life-— which has always been extremely evil in pre-Vatican II America with a true understanding of Christianity.
“Social” justice is Marxism and anti-Christian-—and as the famous Soviet mathematician wrote, as Solzhenitsyn stated in his 78 Harvard Address-—just a little bit of socialism in society will rot the soul and force human beings into slavery and submission.
Homosexual “Pride” is their greatest tool to destroy children-—and it is always about the boys since it is a learned behavior. All history of homosexuals societies proves this, as do “twin” studies. They have always known that homosexuality is caused by warping a child—usually by sexual abuse-—always with emotional abuse—and teaching “Lies” as “Truth”-—warping the minds of children and removing the ability to use Reason and Logic-—it is all about acting on “feelings”—emotions and ejecting Reason.
Lust and Power-—the two driving forces of Satan. Unbridled they destroy cultures because they corrupt the children and their worldview.
Ultimately... Satan vs. God. And Satan uses World and Self (flesh, as idol, not as thing offered to God) as way points.
Let’s get right with God again. He didn’t quit reaching His hands out. We quit lifting OUR hands UP!
Surprise, surprise, surprise!
I would like to just sound a note of caution: getting overly preoccupied with Satan is wrong. God’s Spirit teaches a school, teaching us how to get right with Him and as a secondary (though important) matter, teaching us how to say NO to Satan.
and every parent can choose which troop their kid joins
If you don't want your boy in Mr Feely’s troop then don't put him there, start another troop
Frankly there are plenty of BS troops now being led by women, what does that teach a boy about masculinity?
Ad finally in GS there is a 2 adult rule, no kid is ever along with one adult
if a GS troop leader is a man (they can be) the troop must have a female co-leader
Kids never ever sleep in same tent with adults
Kids who act out sexually are suspended from troop field trips- surely the co-ed Ventures have some experience with this
So maybe if a troop has a homosexual leader they must have a straight co leader and never no never one-on-one leader with boy situations
I hate to see the entire BSA organization surrender so easily to this militant lobby that is 2% of the population.
Stand and fight and in troops, don't give them control over your kids. It can be done.
Insanity.
It looks like the LDS organization was all too copacetic with allowing it. (Let’s not get into wrangles over the word “want” because it is not necessary.) They shifted like a weather vane from a nominal disagreement to “wonderful news.”
Hint to Mormons: A spirit brother can’t and won’t save you. Almighty God can, and if you accept His invitation, will.
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