Posted on 06/16/2012 8:30:18 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Jennifer Tyrell, a 32-year-old Bridgeport, Ohio “mom,” was well aware of longstanding Boy Scouts policy forbidding homosexuals from serving as troop leaders. Nevertheless, the lesbian took a position last year as den leader of her 7-year-old son’s Cub Scout pack.
In April, Tyrell was ousted from the post after being informed by the Boy Scouts of America that she “did not meet the high standards” of moral behavior it expects of both adults and boys associated with the 102-year-old organization.
Now the gay-rights activist is waging an online campaign to pressure BSA’s Board of Directors to rewrite the organization’s rules to allow both gay Scout leaders and gay troops.
The Boy Scouts have been down this road before. Back in 1990, it expelled New Jersey Scoutmaster James Dale after a newspaper interview in which he stated that he unabashedly proclaimed himself gay.
Dale sued for readmission and the Garden State’s highest court sided with him. However, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the lower court decision in 2000, declaring that BSA’s rule against homosexual troop leaders and troops was part of its constitutionally protected “expressive message.”
Allowing homosexuals like Dale to be scoutmasters would interfere with that message, the nation’s highest court held.
Since gay-rights activist Tyrell has no legal recourse against the Scouts, her campaign – backed by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), which recently honored Tyrell, her lesbian “partner,” and their “family” – is targeting influential corporate leaders on the BSA Board, like James Turley, Global Chairman and CEO of Ernst & Young, and Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T.
The execs need to “take their leadership on diversity within the workplace,” says Tyrell, “and extend it to their role as board members of the Boy Scouts of America.”
Well, it’s one thing for CEOs Turley and Stephenson to acquiesce to the gay-rights agenda in the name of “diversity” at Ernst & Young and AT&T respectively. But it’s quite another thing for them to impose that ungodly agenda upon the Boy Scouts.
Indeed, Boy Scouts take an oath to do their duty “to God” and to keep themselves “morally straight.” That’s why six of the top 10 chartered organizations associated with BSA are faith-based.
Were the Boy Scouts to welcome open homosexuality, as Tyrell, the lesbian, and her gay-rights supporters urge, the organization would break faith with those Christian chartered organizations that account for most of its membership. It would enter an ungodly partnership with the homosexual community.
Well, the Boy Scouts of America – God bless them – are standing strong against gay-rights activists. They acknowledge Tyrell’s campaign to rewrite the organization’s rules against gay Scout leaders and troops, but, said BSA spokesman Deron Smith, “there are no plans to change this policy.”
Gay men having unobserved overnight visits with young boys. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
I thought the SCOTUS settled this, a few years ago?
Gay-rights activists failed to break the Scouts through the courts, so now they are trying political pressure.
Next step will be church youth pastors.
thank God for the boy scouts continuing to stand upright. i hope and pray the girl scouts will follow their lead.
who would have known that all of our most cherished and seemingly invincible institutions would fall to leftist corruption while the boy scouts would remain a bullwark against the hun. it gives me hope.
Hey...that's how long they give babies in the womb.
Exactly what I was going to say.
There is a dire need for a well organized, conservative organization that would - not initiate boycotts - but one that would organize boycotts of businesses which respond to the boycott threats of leftist activists such as this.
As long as only the left uses the boycott weapon, with no penalty for businesses that respond to leftist threats, then the leftist will continue to enjoy some degree of success. But if businesses knew the response would be a huge boycott from the right, then they'd stop responding to the thuggish tactics of the left.
I think the Girl Scouts are a lost cause. They were corrupted from within decades ago.
I’m getting so sick of America’s love affair with sexual deviants.
Why would any parent want people who are sexually confused influencing their children in their formative years?
For a look at this subject from a rational perspective: Boy Scouts Of America & A Leftwing Agenda.
William Flax
"Hey...that's how long they give babies in the womb."
AMEN!
They will not. BSA learned a very hard lesson about queer pedophiles in the 60’s, which led to this rule. Stealth faggots still occasionally turn up as scoutmasters and molest boys though. All that can be done about them is prosecute the hell out of them, which BSA does.
The GSA is hopeless corrupted. The best thing BSA can do for girls is to form another group for girls and keep it under their control like Venturing.
Check out American Heritage Girls which is a faith based organization. BSA and American Heritage Girls have entered into a mutual support agreement.
The LGBT freaks will not quit until they’ve completely poisoned America.
The LGBT freaks will not quit until they’ve completely poisoned America.
I couldn’t agree more about the Girls Scouts. They were lost a long time ago. Sadly, many people don’t realize it and still think it’s good for their daughters to be in the Girl Scouts. The Girl Scouts get sicker everyday.
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