Posted on 06/04/2013 8:30:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Since you confuse a prudential statement from a member of the laity with the actual teaching of the Church, it’s not difficult to figure out why you left.
What I am worried about is that we are getting prudential statements from the USCCB that are at best economical, in character instead of emphatic statements that open homosexuality is morally licit. What they should encourage is a period of discernment during which the bishops say nothing until they see where the Scouts are going with this and how gay scouts behave themselves.
AGREED!
Good thing their opinion is just that and not something any Catholic has to give any serious weight to.
This group does have a bit of a conflicting interest:
If the Church no longer supports the Boy Scouts this group disappears, it’s reason for existence gone.
On one hand they claim the BSA is religiously 'oriented' and that to promote religion they must remain members while on the other hand they claim that homosexual 'oriented' has NOTHING to do with promoting homosexual sex?
Ambiguously 'Gay', meet Ambiguously Religious -a partnership brokered by satan himself.
A new recruitment organization for young potential queers??? Why wouldn’t the Catholic clergy be supportive???
That's NOT what Jesus said, and you DO know that...
The traditional Scout position on sexuality was, in effect, "Don't Ask/ Don't Tell," --- and this is correct. If a boy doesn't bring up sexuality as an issue, there's no way to tell if he gets horny thoughts about Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Jack the Middle School Swim Coach or Mrs. Thompson the 8th Grade Music teacher. Sexuality doesn't intrude, and there's no problem.
The glitch in the policy is that it makes it OK to "Come Out to the Scouts" --- what a catchy slogan for the next phase of the LGBT strategy.
Come out --- adopt it as your very identity --- demand your self-expressive rights (backed by the ACLU) and if somebody doesn't like it, they face the repercussions.
Then as the "out-and-proud" Eagle Scouts are trained for leadership positions, does anybody, anybody think they'll get the boot on their 18th birtday?
BSA morphs into Gay-Straight Alliance.
Stupid NCCS.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
I agree with you and was extremely disappointed with the NCCS’ response to the BSA’s new policy.
Regards,
PS: I know an awful lot of traditional Catholics who will NEVER allow their boys to join the Scouts due to this change. They long ago abandoned the GSUSA, and I simply can’t see them supporting the BSA anymore, either.
For those looking for alternatives to the Boy Scouts, here’s a good list of options.
Conservative Boy Scout Alternatives
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/Conservative-Boy-Scout-Alternatives
The article mentions the Squires of Columbus, a youth program under the Catholic Knights of Columbus. It sounds like the Catholic Church, at least, already has a program a lot of their boys can shift to.
Good list. I would add this one as well (also for Catholic youth):
http://www.northstarexplorers.org/
Regards,
PS: This organization is getting the bare-light-bulb once-over from many parents in my Catholic Homeschooling group.
What is a bare-light-bulb once-over?
You know...like in those film noir movies where the cops have the bad guy in a room with a bare light bulb hanging from the ceiling and they’re questioning him?
The Third Degree. Like that.
Regards,
King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And I say also unto you, That you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it.
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The day the BSA caved they were already calling for homosexual Scout leaders.
The National Catholic Committee on Scouting is an advisory body to the BSA. In fact the committee’s name is a registered trademark of the BSA. So anything they say should be taken as coming from the BSA and not from the Church.
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