This is typical lawyer language. Or may I call it Bull Excrement.
The Church will soon find that legally the BSA can no longer deny leadership to adult active Homosexuals. The Law Suits are already being filed and the BSA will once again spend MILLLIONS of DOLLARS to defend their new membership rules, but this time they will lose, because you can not distinguish between an 18 year old by one day and a seventeen year old with one day till his 18th birthday.
It was always all or nothing with the Homo Lobby and they pushed over and over to allow for their degenerate lifestyle to be acceptable. They are relentless and when given an inch they take a mile.
First it was the idea that they where not mentally ill, just the opposite side of the same phychologicaly correct coin. Then it was the dropping of sodomy and laws against public immorality. Now it is the forcing of not acceptance, but praising of their degeneracy through marital status and monetary benefits. It will soon be the elimination of consent laws to allow them unfettered access to prey upon the teen age and pre teen youth of society.
I believe that this is a losing rear guard action (No pun intended) by the BSA. One they are destined to lose because they where moral cowards at the time it was most important for them to hold to their principals to be morally straight.
This Cannon Lawyer is wrong in his analysis.
I agree -he is most definitely wrong! He is wrong many times though, this is but another example where he is errant. The lawyer is not a cleric nor a spokesman for the Church. His personal opinion is just an opinion and as valid as any others -his obedience to what the Church teaches is as much a requirement as is any others.
Note how he differentiate 'membership' with activities and as well 'membership' with leadership. WHY does he do this? LOL because he attempts to define a gray area that does not exist except in the theoretical domain he advances his opinion upon.
In other words as long as young boys are not left alone unsupervised with older 'homosexual' boys all is fine and as long as older 'homosexual' boys are not imposed upon young boys in private setting such as camping trips all is fine. Blah, blah, blah...