They are foxes themselves.
Posted on 08/16/2002 2:15:41 AM PDT by kattracks
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America has told its 490 local affiliates to give openly gay and lesbian volunteers an equal chance to serve as one-on-one mentors to children, incurring the wrath of several conservative groups.
The 98-year-old organization - devoted to helping children from single-parent homes - says it is undaunted by the criticism, which includes calls for its corporate backers to halt donations.
"We're getting incredible, positive support for the action we took," the organization's president, Judy Vredenburgh, said yesterday.
Big Brothers Big Sisters has endorsed nondiscrimination principles for 25 years that cover sexual orientation, race, religion and ethnicity.
Only last month, however, did the provision about sexual orientation become mandatory policy for all affiliates, a few of which had been rejecting gays.
Parents will still have the option of rejecting mentors for various reasons, including sexual orientation. Still, the move has provoked outrage from several conservative organizations.
Donald Wildmon, chairman of the Tupelo, Miss.-based American Family Association, contends that Big Brothers Big Sisters "will become a magnet for homosexuals who exploit opportunities to engage young, impressionable children with their unhealthy lifestyle."
There has been no indication corporate backers will shy away from Big Brothers Big Sisters. Larry Plumb, a spokesman for Verizon Communications, said his company has a long track record in support of nondiscrimination.
I need to buy that book that Cal Thomas wrote - I believe he basically said that American institutions have become so corrupted that they can not be changed, and we are better off forming parallel institutions rather than wasting our time.
They are foxes themselves.
If you have a son, don't do BB/BS, sign your son up with Boy Scouts. If you have a daughter, I don't know what to advise you, except to remember this one (of 8) simple rules for dating my daughter. It's from a book I saw recently in a bookstore, but I can't remember the author.
You may have heard that if you have sex without a barrier it can be dangerous and could even kill you. Let me be more clear. When it comes to sex, I am the barrier and I will kill you.
Shalom.
It's also not safe for the kid as homosexuals are many more times more likely to molest children than heterosexuals.
Shalom.
As it is today? Probably not. As it was 100 years ago? Definately. In the middle somewhere? Pick your year and we'll discuss it.
Shalom.
It's BAD for the Catholic Church to expose children homosexual (scratch that: insert "pedophile") Priests, but GOOD to expose children to homosexual (scratch that: insert "openly gay and lesbian") volunteers?
As that famous American Icon, politician and current jailbird would say, "Beam me up, Scotty!!"
I agree. When they start coming after children, it's time to fight. It's the same with homosexual scoutmasters in the Boy Scouts. That's way, way over the line for me (and my children).
I do, and they couldn't even call him homosexual (despite that fact that he molested several teenage boys). Geesh! The homosexual Catholic molester priests all work in Church too. That says a lot to the teenage boys raped by these perverted men.
The same in the Boy Scouts and the public schools. They've already found their young boys in the Catholic Church, and the result has been horrific.
Try checking out American Heritage Girls. It's a new scouting movement for girls, with the traditional values and morals and beliefs Girls Scouts originally inclucated, but later scorned. AHG is vastly, vastly superior to Girl Scouts.
Which is exactly what the Catholic homosexual molestation scandal shows.
Only stupid stupid parents would turn their teenage boys over to homosexual scoutmasters, priests or mentors. More and more are learning that, tragically.
Sound's reasonable. You could ask on the application form if the person is into several fetishes that suggest a mental problem. You could also ask about fetishes that do not suggest a mental problem. Then screen out those that volunteer the information or refuse to answer.
Why ask for trouble for other people's children?
Shalom.
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