Posted on 05/21/2015 10:42:22 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The president of the Boy Scouts of America on Thursday called for an end to the group’s blanket ban on gay adult leaders, warning Scout executives that “we must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be,” and that “any other alternative will be the end of us as a national movement.”
At the same time, religious organizations that sponsor a majority of local Scout troops, including the Mormons and Roman Catholics, should remain free to set their own policies for leaders, said the president, Robert M. Gates, the former director of the C.I.A. and the former secretary of defense.
Mr. Gates called for the changes at an annual national meeting of the group, in Atlanta. He said that he was not yet making a formal proposal but that the Scouts’ governing body should take up the issue formally at a future meeting.
The treatment of gay men and boys has been a source of wrenching debate over the last decade. Conservative religious groups that sponsor many Scout troops, including the Mormon Church and the Roman Catholic Church, have opposed the participation of openly gay members while local leaders in more liberal areas have called for an end to the ban.
In 2013, Boy Scout leaders from across the country voted, with more than 60 percent approval, to say that no youth may be denied membership “on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone.” But it left intact the policy that no openly gay adults could serve in the organization.
Since then, a Scout group in New York has defied that policy by employing an openly gay leader, and several other groups around the country have expressed opposition to the ban.
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How did an unhealthy lifestyle attain such political dominance? I don't get it.
The Boy Scouts lost this with their first compromise. These people compromise like Hitler compromised. It is to buy them time for they next takeover.
“we must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be...”
So let’s expose them to perverts. FU
My son and I were in Cub and Boy Scouts too.
There are Christian alternative organizations out there.
Leave the BSA, leave now!
BSA needs to go with three-deep leadership, just to make it harder for the perverts to pair double-team kids on camping trips. Better, they could man up and say that, no, BSA is not a candy store for predators. It’s sad what has happened to a formerly great organization.
As shocking as all the left’s depravity push is, it’s the nonsense being pushed on children that I find the most shocking. Hello? Parents? Why are you allowing this? The group that has no ability to produce children is getting the biggest say in raising them.
> How did an unhealthy lifestyle attain such political
> dominance? I don’t get it.
Read 2nd Timothy Chapter 3, 2nd Thessalonians 2:11, and Romans 1:18-31.
Pick homosexual men who like to hang around with young boys as Scout Masters and let them sleep with young boys in the woods.
What could possibly go wrong with that?
And no, I am not suggesting that all homosexuals are pedophiles, just the ones who like to hang around with young boys and sleep with them in the woods.
At age 12, my “best friend” and fellow Scout tried to force me to do an unmentionable act upon him during a weekend camporee, and the following week at school used the incident to get me branded as a queer. It followed me through my school years and has caused me problems for many years after. I couldn’t report him, his father was the Scoutmaster.
If the gays want to have their own youth (molestation) organization, OK. But keep them out of ours.
Might make one wonder about the orientation of that Boy Scouts’ President.
As soon as the Girl Scouts start to have unmarried young men taking their troops on camping trips, I’m fine with it.
Proper response: “We oppose gay leadership in the Scouts for common sense reasons. Deal with us as we are, not as you wish us to be.”
Also keep in mind that Jerry Sandusky was “married” to a woman.
What about the kids’ parents holding the scoutmaster
accountable??
This was their purpose in hiring Gates. They had already decided to do it.
I actively supported the BSA for years, until they caved to the homo-fascists. I have nothing but contempt for the entire organization now. I spit on them.
Exactly. The issue is not wanting scout leaders who have a sex attraction to the kids.
Girl Scouts don’t allow men to go on camping trips with the girls. Why? Because of the issues of getting dressed, getting undressed, showering, bathing, other bathroom functions, etc. Its because there is a high level of discomfort in having men around at such times and places.
The same reasoning applies to.not wanting homosexual men around boys.
As predicted...and within his first year. I’m not surprised by this statement at all.
Many can tolerate sexually confused youth claiming to be homosexual, but many will absolutely NOT tolerate homosexual adults mixed with youth.
If the BSA moves ahead with this policy, only the rabid BSA kool-aid drinkers and homosexuals will remain.
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