BRKG Boy Scouts will now accept openly gay members

Countrymouse

Countrymouse

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Reasonable Rascal said:
This will go down in history as a VERY bad idea.

"Guess what, Roger. Now that you are 18 you can no longer be in Scouting. Yes, you made Eagle. But you've aged out, and we don't allow gay 'adults.'"

RR
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Exactly.

It's just a back-door way (no pun intended) of allowing ALL Gays into ALL aspects of Scouting.

And---if the SPONSORING ORGANIZATION (church, usually) ALLOWS THIS---then that organization will OPEN ITSELF UP TO LAWSUITS IF THEY ALSO DON'T ALLOW GAYS INTO ALL ASPECTS OF THEIR ORGANIZAITON---the gays will simply bring a lawsuit against that church saying, "What do you mean you don't allow gay pastors? What do you mean you preach from your pulpit that the Bible condemns homosexuality? You are ALLOWING an OPENLY GAY ORGANIZATION to be SPONSORED by your church If you allow THEM, you HAVE to allow US also!"---and they are right.

Legally, this paints churches into a CORNER where they will either HAVE to STOP SPONSORING a Boy Scout troop, OR they will have to STOP PREACHING AGAINST or PROHIBITING HOMOSEXUALITY in any way in their church.

This was deliberate, a line-in-the-sand ploy by gay groups to get a "two-for-one" deal---not only force one of the strongest and most recognized groups that stood for righteous and upright MANLY values and the development of STRONG MANHOOD in young men to cease to exist in that form, but to USE the BSA to infiltrate the churches, which are the MAJORITY of the SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS for BSA, and the MAIN BULWARK still standing against full 'gay rights' (so-called) in this country.

The Girl Scouts capitulated to lesbians YEARS ago---and now the Boy Scouts have fallen.

And -- if they don't DROP their BSA troops IMMEDIATELY---the CHURCHES are next.

Wait and see.

Watch for the lawsuits.

It's coming.

And when the churches all fall---then it will become a CRIME for ANY individual person---ANYWHERE---to say ANYTHING negative or critical of a gay person---even to quote the Biblical injunctions against sodomy will be seen as a "hate" crime severely punishable by law.
 
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Countrymouse

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Lorraine in GA said:
That's what I have been saying... CSA - Christian Scouts of America
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Our own BSA troop---which is a homeschool-based, CHRISTIAN troop---is already considering that.

They have American Heritage Girls for the girls---so we are thinking of an "American Heritage Boys" for the boys.

The Troop committee has already met to discuss "what ifs" if this passed, and said they would disband the troop if it did.

My middle son just earned Eagle---i am SO glad he can say he got his Eagle when the BSA was still the "REAL" BSA.

It will make for a sad Eagle Ceremony, though, I'm afraid...
 
CRodgers

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Countrymouse said:
Exactly.

It's just a back-door way (no pun intended) of allowing ALL Gays into ALL aspects of Scouting.

And---if the SPONSORING ORGANIZATION (church, usually) ALLOWS THIS---then that organization will OPEN ITSELF UP TO LAWSUITS IF THEY ALSO DON'T ALLOW GAYS INTO ALL ASPECTS OF THEIR ORGANIZAITON---the gays will simply bring a lawsuit against that church saying, "What do you mean you don't allow gay pastors? What do you mean you preach from your pulpit that the Bible condemns homosexuality? You are ALLOWING an OPENLY GAY ORGANIZATION to be SPONSORED by your church If you allow THEM, you HAVE to allow US also!"---and they are right.

Legally, this paints churches into a CORNER where they will either HAVE to STOP SPONSORING a Boy Scout troop, OR they will have to STOP PREACHING AGAINST or PROHIBITING HOMOSEXUALITY in any way in their church.

This was deliberate, a line-in-the-sand ploy by gay groups to get a "two-for-one" deal---not only force one of the strongest and most recognized groups that stood for righteous and upright MANLY values and the development of STRONG MANHOOD in young men to cease to exist in that form, but to USE the BSA to infiltrate the churches, which are the MAJORITY of the SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS for BSA, and the MAIN BULWARK still standing against full 'gay rights' (so-called) in this country.

The Girl Scouts capitulated to lesbians YEARS ago---and now the Boy Scouts have fallen.

And -- if they don't DROP their BSA troops IMMEDIATELY---the CHURCHES are next.

Wait and see.

Watch for the lawsuits.

It's coming.

And when the churches all fall---then it will become a CRIME for ANY individual person---ANYWHERE---to say ANYTHING negative or critical of a gay person---even to quote the Biblical injunctions against sodomy will be seen as a "hate" crime severely punishable by law.
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You are absolutely correct.
 
sssarawolf

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CRodgers said:
Any surprise that a cult that advocates sexual deviance through polygamy has decided to vote with the libtards on the BSA decision to allow gay scout members?

SMH!
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We're not polygamists at all, that's those people that have broken off because they want to do their own thing, instead of obeying the word of GOd.
 
Dennis Olson

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Countrymouse said:
Exactly.

It's just a back-door way (no pun intended) of allowing ALL Gays into ALL aspects of Scouting.

And---if the SPONSORING ORGANIZATION (church, usually) ALLOWS THIS---then that organization will OPEN ITSELF UP TO LAWSUITS IF THEY ALSO DON'T ALLOW GAYS INTO ALL ASPECTS OF THEIR ORGANIZAITON---the gays will simply bring a lawsuit against that church saying, "What do you mean you don't allow gay pastors? What do you mean you preach from your pulpit that the Bible condemns homosexuality? You are ALLOWING an OPENLY GAY ORGANIZATION to be SPONSORED by your church If you allow THEM, you HAVE to allow US also!"---and they are right.

Legally, this paints churches into a CORNER where they will either HAVE to STOP SPONSORING a Boy Scout troop, OR they will have to STOP PREACHING AGAINST or PROHIBITING HOMOSEXUALITY in any way in their church.

This was deliberate, a line-in-the-sand ploy by gay groups to get a "two-for-one" deal---not only force one of the strongest and most recognized groups that stood for righteous and upright MANLY values and the development of STRONG MANHOOD in young men to cease to exist in that form, but to USE the BSA to infiltrate the churches, which are the MAJORITY of the SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS for BSA, and the MAIN BULWARK still standing against full 'gay rights' (so-called) in this country.

The Girl Scouts capitulated to lesbians YEARS ago---and now the Boy Scouts have fallen.

And -- if they don't DROP their BSA troops IMMEDIATELY---the CHURCHES are next.

Wait and see.

Watch for the lawsuits.

It's coming.

And when the churches all fall---then it will become a CRIME for ANY individual person---ANYWHERE---to say ANYTHING negative or critical of a gay person---even to quote the Biblical injunctions against sodomy will be seen as a "hate" crime severely punishable by law.
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Well stated. I too am in complete agreement.
 
CRodgers

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Personally I see this steamrolling into something a LOT bigger than it is. People not only have financial ties to this organization but emotional ones. Fathers who were scouts themselves and have their sons it it, are now hurt and feel let down by this organization as a whole.

Parents were petitioned and overwhelmingly had the votes on their side to not allow this change, but the few liberals on the seat driven by twisted religious sects have pushed this into an evil agenda spawned from the pit of hell.

If there were ever a spark to light the kindling of a civil war, this might do it.
 
Dennis Olson

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If there were ever a spark to light the kindling of a civil war, this might do it.


Not even close. Gun control and confiscation would, but not queers in scouting.
 
Dennis Olson

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Mormonism is not a cult. No more so than any other Christian sect. And to be honest, ALL faiths could be considered cults when you get down to it.
 
CRodgers

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I will respectfully disagree. You aren't hearing the rhetoric I am on this in another venue.

Will also point out most of these guys are in LE.
 
Dennis Olson

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If your "other venue" is a hysterical right wing fringe site, then yes, I would expect you to hear that. But for more rational people, this is not enough to start a civil war over.
 
Countrymouse

Countrymouse

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CRodgers said:
Personally I see this steamrolling into something a LOT bigger than it is. People not only have financial ties to this organization but emotional ones. Fathers who were scouts themselves and have their sons it it, are now hurt and feel let down by this organization as a whole.

Parents were petitioned and overwhelmingly had the votes on their side to not allow this change, but the few liberals on the seat driven by twisted religious sects have pushed this into an evil agenda spawned from the pit of hell.

If there were ever a spark to light the kindling of a civil war, this might do it.
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My husband---an Eagle Scout---is truly heartbroken over this.

As for parents being able to stop it---the "delegates" voted on it, not the parents---and I don't know how they were "chosen". I STRONGLY suspect the BSA Texas 'leadership' that has been pushing this agenda for a while now, STACKED the delegates to ensure this vote.

The BSA website came out with a so-called "SURVEY" a few weeks ago, purporting to ask for "input"---but you could tell by question 3 that they'd ALREADY MADE UP THEIR MINDS TO ALLOW IT.

For instance, one of the very earliest questions on the 'survey' asked, "If a Scout began his career with Scouting all the way back in Tiger Cubs at age 6, and went all the way up through Cub and Boy Scouts, winning numerous badges and awards (such as Arrow of Light), and then finally achieved Eagle, only to reveal just before his Eagle Board that he was gay----should this Scout then be denied the chance to become an Eagle Scout and be thrown out of Scouts and have his entire long history of Scouting discarded?"

Tell me that's not a loaded question.

It was a rigged survey, and this was a rigged 'vote'.

As for the "revolution"----if it hasn't come by now, it won't.

I'm beginning to think the "waiting for revolution" folks who see GOOD in increasingly EVIL happenings because they keep thinking, "Oh, THIS will be the spark that ignites the Revolution!", or "Well, maybe THIS time THIS will be the spark that ignites the Revolution!"---are completely like the two guys in "Waiting for Godot"---and have about as much chance of the "revolution" they have all their hopes pinned on coming.

If not now, when?

If not you, who?
 
CRodgers

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Dennis Olson said:
If your "other venue" is a hysterical right wing fringe site, then yes, I would expect you to hear that. But for more rational people, this is not enough to start a civil war over.
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My other venue is a coffee shop across the street from a police station filled with LE.
 
CRodgers

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I know you aren't from Texas but guess what, this is the norm here.
 
sy32478

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Dennis Olson said:
The problem facing of the liberal scum is how to totally dismantle everything that's good and decent about America, and replace that with perversion after perversion, heaping them one upon the other until all decency and morality have been suffocated under the weight of degeneracy. The attack orchestrated by the liberal/pervert/fag block against the BSA is but one example of this. And it will never stop.

Everything that's good, decent or moral in this country WILL be snuffed out.
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Dennis is right. All my dealings with these types seems to evoke some sort of mental / emotional disorder whereby they can't stand anything decent or good as it is an affront to them and exacerbates their self-loathing. They seem to attack the good and the decent in an almost knee-jerk and very immature and emotional fashion.

A good lot of the folks Dennis alludes to should be under the care of a psychiatrist.
 
Dennis Olson

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CRodgers said:
I know you aren't from Texas but guess what, this is the norm here.
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Queers in the Boy Scouts is not a Constitutional issue. Disarming Americans in violation of the Second Amendment IS. Most people it his country will not be affected by the former (and if they are, they can simply start a competing organization and be done with the BSA). EVERYONE is affected by the latter however, and the Contract with the People is in danger from it.

You can huff and puff along with your GOBs down at the coffee house all you want, but the objective reality is that you're way off base, and that goes for your associates as well. And I PROMISE you that Texas isn't going to war with the US government over queers in the BSA. To think otherwise is delusional.

BTW, your attempt to bitch-slap me about not being a "native" Texan - FAIL. I don't give a shit.
 
Countrymouse

Countrymouse

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Dennis Olson said:
Queers in the Boy Scouts is not a Constitutional issue. Disarming Americans in violation of the Second Amendment IS. Most people it his country will not be affected by the former (and if they are, they can simply start a competing organization and be done with the BSA). EVERYONE is affected by the latter however, and the Contract with the People is in danger from it..
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But it IS a "camel's nose under the tent" attempt to infiltrate churches and deny THEIR Constitutional Rights to both freedom of religion AND freedom of association, by using this BSA thing as a way to next bring lawsuits against churches for not allowing ANY church officials to be homosexual, or for DENYING any other homosexually-oriented groups to meet in or be associated with their churches, or eventually to even just SAY (as in, from the pulpit, or in any of their doctrines or religious materials) that homosexuality is a sin and is not God's original plan for sex or marriage---ANY OF THESE will be used to UTTERLY EXTINGUISH RELIGIOUS OPPOSITION TO HOMOSEXUALITY by pulling the rug out from under their being ABLE to do so.

This, folks, is a HUGE attack--NOT just on Boy Scouts--but on the CHURCHES that sponsor them.
 
CRodgers

CRodgers

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I wasn't the one huffing and puffing for the record and it was never my intention on bitch slapping you. You are obviously in a grumpy mood so I will leave you with it and stop responding to you until you get out of it.
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

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Re-read what I said in post #21 which was quoted by sy32478 in post #59. Ultimately, what I said WILL come to pass. There is no stopping it. And that's when it's revolution time.


And I'm no grumpier than usual. I just see things as they are, without additional emotion. I feel that I have a very good grasp of what will set off revolution in this country and what won't. And homosexuality is not a revolution-triggering issue. Not gonna happen.
 
Countrymouse

Countrymouse

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Can we PLEASE get back on topic of what this decision MEANS---for the BSA, for the country, for the sponsoring organizations that have (up until now) been hosting the BSA troop meetings, and for the future of our Constitution???

The more I think about this, the more scared I am.

ANY GAY OR LESBIAN GROUP CAN NOW PETITION TO BE HAVE ITS MEETINGS HOSTED IN A CHURCH THAT HOSTS A BSA TROOP---AND THAT CHURCH CANNOT TURN THEM DOWN DUE TO THEIR PURPOSE / ORIENTATION (whatever they may call it---being gay) OR THEY OPEN THEMSELVES UP TO A LAWSUIT.

THIS IS HUGE!
 
Hfcomms

Hfcomms

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Countrymouse said:

But it IS a "camel's nose under the tent" attempt to infiltrate churches and deny THEIR Constitutional Rights to both freedom of religion AND freedom of association,
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Then the churches need to stand up and be counted. They need to do better than they did in accepting their 501C3 exemptions thereby becoming vassal's of the State in order to get a tax exemption. They churches can simply resign their charters by the droves and let the boy scouts become a hollowed out shell of what it used to be. The churches didn't turn their backs on the boy scouts but the scouting council turned their backs on the very foundation that this organization has been built upon. The churches can adopt a scouting like program. You don't need to be officially sanctioned by an outside organization to teach the skills and values that scouting was founded upon. Unfortunately being a sign of the times the churches themselves are shells of what they were supposed to be and most of them will cave in and follow the crowd. I hope I'm wrong. FWIW I have no problem with an older scout who is gender confused to remain in the program. But he needs to stay in the closet because scouting never was and was never supposed to be about sexual orientation. If he is 16 or 17 and feels compelled to associate his sexuality with the uniform he wears then IMO he can forfeit the honor of wearing that said uniform.
 
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amarilla

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The gay Scouts does not occur until 1/1/14. Our sponsoring church is only sponsoring until 12/31/13. I don't think we will see the full impact until then. Many boys will try and finish up.

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Giblin

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On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake, and morally straight.

This was the oath the way we remembered it. Did it change? The news article had:

Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY6:20 p.m. EDT May 23, 2013

Supporters of the ban on gay members point to the Scout oath, which includes the line "On my honor I will do my best .... to keep myself physically strong, mentally alert and morally straight."


There is a big difference between AWAKE and ALERT!


Does anyone know if there was a change? I know the Girl Scouts regularly change their promise.
 
O

Oreally

Right from the start
Anyone who doesn't agree that this is ALL about letting homosexual adults in as Scout leader is either blind, lying, a NAMBLA member, or all three.
 
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Ruckmanite

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Our church dumped them after the perversion files case was released.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...agree-to-release-perversion-files-4483278.php

The 20,000 pages of text, where they did in house rehab of repeat child molesters, was hidden from public view. The Oregon case broke this open, and a huge settlement awarded. The parent organization, an LDS church, was also sued and forced to pay about 625,000.

So, for the first time, the parent organization was held liable, which was a church.

Imagine where this will go when a church refuses to have a pink wearing openly homo in their sanctuary where the awards ceremonies are performed.

We found out that one of the kids in the troop, who was having serious issues, was approached/attacked by a queer at an Order of the Arrow ceremony. It was kept hidden, and when the rituals of the Order of The Arrow, along with the Spirit of the Arrow booklets, the decision to not review their charter was an easy one.
 
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Tennessee gal

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dieseltrooper said:
Is there anything preventing a new organization from being formed, free of this crap?
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Some church denominations do have programs similar to scouting, just not on the national level. I do agree another program should be started. The libs want to control everything pertaining to the rearing of children... you know like Hillary said, " It takes a village".
 
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Tennessee gal

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Countrymouse said:
Exactly.

It's just a back-door way (no pun intended) of allowing ALL Gays into ALL aspects of Scouting.

And---if the SPONSORING ORGANIZATION (church, usually) ALLOWS THIS---then that organization will OPEN ITSELF UP TO LAWSUITS IF THEY ALSO DON'T ALLOW GAYS INTO ALL ASPECTS OF THEIR ORGANIZAITON---the gays will simply bring a lawsuit against that church saying, "What do you mean you don't allow gay pastors? What do you mean you preach from your pulpit that the Bible condemns homosexuality? You are ALLOWING an OPENLY GAY ORGANIZATION to be SPONSORED by your church If you allow THEM, you HAVE to allow US also!"---and they are right.

Legally, this paints churches into a CORNER where they will either HAVE to STOP SPONSORING a Boy Scout troop, OR they will have to STOP PREACHING AGAINST or PROHIBITING HOMOSEXUALITY in any way in their church.

This was deliberate, a line-in-the-sand ploy by gay groups to get a "two-for-one" deal---not only force one of the strongest and most recognized groups that stood for righteous and upright MANLY values and the development of STRONG MANHOOD in young men to cease to exist in that form, but to USE the BSA to infiltrate the churches, which are the MAJORITY of the SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS for BSA, and the MAIN BULWARK still standing against full 'gay rights' (so-called) in this country.

The Girl Scouts capitulated to lesbians YEARS ago---and now the Boy Scouts have fallen.

And -- if they don't DROP their BSA troops IMMEDIATELY---the CHURCHES are next.

Wait and see.

Watch for the lawsuits.

It's coming.

And when the churches all fall---then it will become a CRIME for ANY individual person---ANYWHERE---to say ANYTHING negative or critical of a gay person---even to quote the Biblical injunctions against sodomy will be seen as a "hate" crime severely punishable by law.
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Well said Countrymouse.
 
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topcat46

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Who knew 40 years ago that abortionists, homosexuals and Muslims would be in control of our culture? This country can burn to the ground for all I care. We deserve it.
 
Blue 5

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I am heartbroken over this decision by the BSA... If anyone can recommend a good alternative to scouting for boys I'd welcome the input.
 
Reasonable Rascal

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Tennessee gal said:
I do agree another program should be started.
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The problem is money. To match even 1/3 of the infrastructure available to the Scouting movement would take literally a few hundred million bucks. The new permanent Jamboree home in West Virginia alone has some $130+ MILLION being pumped into it, including land purchase, infrastructure and development. How accommodating do you think the BSA would be for a group that competes head-to-head with them when asked if they (other group) can use their summer camps, council office facilities, etc? Oh, and said new group is exclusionary in its membership policies, as the BSA once was.

RR
 
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Seabear

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Professional Scouting Org vs the Moms and Dads

The people who voted for this are not the real people who make scouting happen. Our local folks do all the work. We raise and send money to the regional and national so they can come up with crap like this.

Defund the national org.

Unlike recent church fights over gay rights where the national and regional leaders seized local property and forced conservative congregants out, local scouting is largely sponsored by churches who oppose this change and own their own property.

Lots of other campgrounds and woods to camp in if they choose to quit.

There was absolutely no reason to make this change as it had been visited 2 years ago, and there had been an affirmative SCOTUS decision.

The only ones we have heard mealy mouthing and advocating this crap are the paid "professional" staff whom I largely think are out of touch and arrogant on a good day.

If the local orgs and churches don't do something substantial by 2014 when this is implemented, then it will be open season on them by all of faggotry and its minions.

Yes, I am disgusted and my tolerance level is gone.

The all out blitz by the perverted community in pushing their agenda in all arenas of life recently has taxed whatever sliver of patience and civility I possess.

Like Dennis said yesterday we can't allow them to control the language and the discussion.
 
Jubilee on Earth

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Seabear said:
Sex is what you do not who you are, and what people do in the bedroom has no protected status in the real world.
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This is SO well-said. I've been trying to say that for year, and will borrow this line from here on out, if you don't mind. It is the absolute truth!
 
Laurane

Laurane

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ANY GAY OR LESBIAN GROUP CAN NOW PETITION TO BE HAVE ITS MEETINGS HOSTED IN A CHURCH THAT HOSTS A BSA TROOP---AND THAT CHURCH CANNOT TURN THEM DOWN DUE TO THEIR PURPOSE / ORIENTATION (whatever they may call it---being gay) OR THEY OPEN THEMSELVES UP TO A LAWSUIT.



"The (LDS) Church’s long-established policy for participation in activities (in the buildings) is stated in the basic instructional handbook used by lay leaders of the Church: “young men … who agree to abide by Church standards” .......this will not include those who indulge in a homosexual lifestyle.
 
Jeff B.

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Reasonable Rascal said:
The problem is money. To match even 1/3 of the infrastructure available to the Scouting movement would take literally a few hundred million bucks. The new permanent Jamboree home in West Virginia alone has some $130+ MILLION being pumped into it, including land purchase, infrastructure and development. How accommodating do you think the BSA would be for a group that competes head-to-head with them when asked if they (other group) can use their summer camps, council office facilities, etc? Oh, and said new group is exclusionary in its membership policies, as the BSA once was.

RR
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Good points, but IMO, the BSA is going to find that it's fundraising has just taken a severe hit AND that some of it's strongest (membership, participation, fundraising) troops will be actively looking for a new home.

As many have observed, is is just the tip of the iceberg. Within 3 years the next change will come that embraces "full inclusion" and sees homosexual leadership.

I may be wrong, but I feel that Scouting has just ensured its own descent into irrelevance.

Jeff B.
 
Hfcomms

Hfcomms

EN66iq
Blue 5 said:
I am heartbroken over this decision by the BSA... If anyone can recommend a good alternative to scouting for boys I'd welcome the input.
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Find an assembly of God church and you can have your boy join the Royal Rangers. I was involved as a teacher in that program for several years. It's pretty much a BSA knockoff but also shows the boys that they need Christ as well. I don't go to the A.G. churches anymore but all boys are welcome and it will be a Christian environment even if you don't see eye to eye with all of the A.G. doctrines.



Assemblies of God Response to the Boy Scouts of America's Resolution May 23, 2013


Assemblies of God leadership regrets that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has voted to change its policy regarding inclusion of homosexual youth members. We believe – as do a majority of Boy Scout volunteer leaders and parents – that this is not the best policy for BSA, nor for the young men it serves.

As the landmark 2000 Supreme Court decision stated, BSA is a private organization with freedom of association to determine its own membership standards, upholding BSA's policy not to allow homosexual leaders or members. BSA stated at the time that a departure from that longstanding policy would undermine its purpose of guiding boys to keep themselves "morally straight," which is part of the Boy Scout Oath.

While we are disappointed by BSA's recent membership decision, we are pleased that the organization will retain its policy regarding adult leaders, and applaud the organization for standing firm on that issue. However, today's vote to allow homosexual youth members negates BSA's ability to legally defend its position regarding leadership and opens the door to more efforts by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) lobbies to make further policy changes.

A majority of scout groups are sponsored by churches or other religious entities, which have as their foundation a belief in biblical teachings that identify homosexual behavior as outside of God's plan for sexuality. While we agree that youths who experience confusion or same-sex attraction need to be welcomed, in our churches they are confronted with this biblical teaching and will be counseled and prayed with that God will help them to align their lives in conformity to that teaching. We agree with the BSA that we need to demonstrate compassion and welcome those who are struggling with sexuality issues, but not in a way that condones such behavior, which is what the new BSA policy does.

Though the BSA shares a common mission with the Church, "to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes," the Church answers to a higher Authority in providing a value-added spiritual dimension. As such, based on Scripture, we provide a loving, welcoming environment to young people in their search for purpose, meaning and God's best for their lives. Until this decision today BSA agreed in teaching that "homosexual conduct is not morally straight" and in not wanting to "promote homosexual conduct as a legitimate form of behavior." BSA had been well-served by holding to that position.

We believe that the BSA policy change will lead to a mass exodus from the Boy Scout program, as Assemblies of God and many other churches can no longer support groups that are part of an organization allowing members who are openly homosexual. However, as a positive alternative, we offer a program – the Royal Rangers – that operates with values consistent to that of the BSA prior to today's change.

In the fractured family and culture today, we recognize that many youth are struggling with sexual identity and behavior. Our Assemblies of God churches seek to help these young people experience sexual purity in their lives, and remain virgins until married to a person of the opposite sex. Love, counseling and prayer is given for those who fail in this regard so that young people who engage in sexual relations outside marriage can reset their moral compass toward God's will through repentance, forgiveness and restoration.
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http://royalrangers.com/
 
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