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As a Scoutmaster, this saddens me. I am actually starting to think that the best move for BSA at this point is to disband with its head held high. The board has been infiltrated with Homosexual activist and if they do not get what they want this year, then they will when AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson steps into the top slot.
1 posted on 02/01/2013 7:34:12 AM PST by lost in the snow
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Well, you’re either “morally straight”... or you’re not.


2 posted on 02/01/2013 7:36:37 AM PST by grobdriver (Sic semper tyrannis!)
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Downsize and keep to their principles!


3 posted on 02/01/2013 7:39:36 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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they will when AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson steps into the top slot

Amazing how the libs always manage to take over the BOD. They know that is where the power and money is, and they really don't have to do any real work.

4 posted on 02/01/2013 7:41:56 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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another good article...

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/scouting_suicide_9S9YLKtL6cmB9yZLmG908L


6 posted on 02/01/2013 7:44:33 AM PST by lost in the snow
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un-infiltrate


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The following is my letter to the Southern Arizona Catalina Council. Many of you could copy, paste, and send it to your councils.

Subject: Scouting is By and For People Who Love Scouting

Mr. Tucker,

As a Scout Parent I have volunteered thousands hours as a Den Leader, Asst. Leader, and as a Volunteer Parent helping the Troop on activities from camp-outs to Spit and Slurps. I also give money regularly through the “Friends of Scouting”. I am a typical Scout Parent. In my Troop alone there are Scouting Parents and Scouting Adults who no longer have kids in Scouting, who volunteer hundreds of times the hours that I have given, all for the love and joy of Scouting.

If the BSA keeps it current policies it may lose some corporate money but the BSA will survive. If the BSA bows to outside pressure groups and allows homosexual leaders, my family, and many other Scouting families, will withdraw volunteer support as well as monetary support from the BSA. Many BSA troops are hosted, as my Troop is, by Churches of every religion, Mormon, Methodist, etc. Should the BSA allow gay leaders, those Churches who host Troops would soon likely let their charters lapse and Troops would be forced to find new homes or disband.

The BSA will never survive a blow like that. No amount of corporate promises could ever take the place of those volunteers and church sponsors. The BSA was not and is not meant to be a corporate run entity. Scouting runs, as we all know, on the generosity of people who LOVE SCOUTING, and cannot survive by the hand of those who despise the BSA’s adherence to GODs Law.

Once the BSA is abandoned by parents and sponsors, the outside pressure groups who forced the new policy would not be able to or even willing to make up the short fall in BSA volunteers. They would abandon the BSA as quickly as the Scouting Parents and the BSA would likely cease to exist.

I hope and pray, while outside groups still allow Scouts to pray, that the BSA will make the right choice.

Yours In Scouting,
(Name withheld to protect the guilty)


10 posted on 02/01/2013 7:55:18 AM PST by fightin kentuckian
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How do these liberal CEO's get on the Board, when everyone knows that radical political correctness & pro-homo advocacy runs rampant through their veins? Isn't the current CEO the head of the British-based Ernst & Winney (or something spelled like that)?

How does a Brit libturd (aka. think Piers Morgan) get to sit on the Board of Boy Scout of America and even more ridiculous, is the Chairman of the Board of the BSA?

These non-profit organizations somehow seem to love to pick high-profile RAT bastard liberals & socialists to sit on their Board of Directors, and then sit there with a perplexed look on their faces when the liberal board members start to push their pro-homo / pro-lesbian / pro-Islam / anti-American / anti-Christianity ideologies onto the organizations.

I was a boy scout growing up, but IMHO the BSA could put a stop to this nonsense by removing the liberals & socialists from their board of directors.

15 posted on 02/01/2013 8:14:19 AM PST by rcrngroup
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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.

  
16 posted on 02/01/2013 8:15:39 AM PST by Maurice Tift (You can't stop the signal, Mal. You can never stop the signal.)
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I have a son in Cub Scouts. Here is the conclusion of a fairly inflamatory e-mail I sent BSA this morning:

I also demand that Randall Stephenson and James Turley be removed from the BSA board. They are guilty of attempting to destroy the Boy Scouts of America organization and contributing to the delinquency of millions of minors. Hasn’t there been and isn’t there now enough child molestation in BSA for these two reprobates?


17 posted on 02/01/2013 8:17:26 AM PST by A. Patriot (Re-electing Obama is like the Titanic backing up to hit the iceberg again.)
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I’ve read David Kupelian’s books. He’s a terrific analyst who really understands issues at the level of first principles.

I have five (out of six) sons and a daughter in Scouting. We’ve been leaders and volunteers for 15 years. I’m so distressed by this that I feel physically sick. I don’t know what we’ll do if the Board betrays everything they claim to stand for.

Obviously, it’s not going to become a Folsom Street Fair overnight, but how can we participate in and support an organization that so blatantly abandons its principles ... ultimately for nothing, as Mr. Kupelian points out, because the attacks won’t stop, they’ll just get worse.


19 posted on 02/01/2013 8:19:00 AM PST by Tax-chick (Make sure you notice when I'm being subtly ironic!)
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The bulk of the BSA is made up of volunteers. I would be willing to bet that they, as a group, actually contribute more to the effort than the pansy dingleberries pushing for inclusion.

So, who really should be calling the shots?

26 posted on 02/01/2013 8:41:54 AM PST by Slyfox (The key to Marxism is medicine - Vladimir Lenin)
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Here is the letter I will be submitting to my pack next week if BSA allows homosexuals to openly serve as scouts and leaders. I have already notified my local council and the national organization of my intentions in a letter as well. I have edited out the names for privacy reasons:

Dear Parents and Leaders,

It is with much sadness that due to a recent change in national policy by the Boy Scouts of America we can’t in good conscience support, my son and I have decided to leave scouting.

We strongly believe that allowing homosexuals to openly join scouts or serve as leaders in scouting is simply unacceptable. Not just that we personally disagree with homosexuality and believe it is socially deviant sexual behavior, but also the overwhelming majority of sexual predators of small boys are adult homosexual males.

To us, that is a direct threat to our son. Knowing that there is a reasonable risk of homosexual leaders or adults who could be sexual predators and who are present at summer camps, winter lodges, or other council properties or events where packs from various districts are attending, is too great a risk for us as parents to take and we simply will not allow our son to attend any council functions, which severely limits and diminishes the scouting experience for him. I personally know men who as children were sexually abused and victimized by adult male homosexuals and now many years later as adults themselves, they are still trying to cope with the trauma of those horrible events, and their lives have been forever scarred by brutal, vicious attacks.

We are sad to leave scouts, but we can’t participate in or support an organization where we believe there is a genuine threat to his safety and well-being.

Our family has thoroughly enjoyed our time in scouts. Serving as Cub Master and a Den Leader has given me memories I will cherish for the rest of my life. It has been great to get to know all of you and share the scouting experience, and I wish you and your scouts the very best of luck in the future.

Sincerely,

*********


32 posted on 02/01/2013 8:49:27 AM PST by Bell407Pilot
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The CEO is NOT “King”.
Fire him now.

Restore the BSA image and stick with their time proven principles.

They did fine without corporate sponsorship for decades and can do so again.


33 posted on 02/01/2013 8:52:29 AM PST by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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Braveheart or Brokeback?


36 posted on 02/01/2013 8:58:30 AM PST by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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BSA may well have only two choices:

(1) Suicide - acquiesce to pressure for gay Scoutmasters to take our children into the woods, or

(2) Murder - refuse to bow to evil and eventually watch as the organization is shut down by a petty tyrant like Obama.

Even if neither option appeals, Scouting should take the moral path. BSA’s leaders should be trustworthy, and this vote will tell us whether they were worthy of our trust. Our leaders should be loyal to the Scouts and the Scouters who depend on them to protect us from outside threats. Our leaders should be helpful, which includes helping us to keep our kids physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. Our leaders should be obedient to the Scout Oath, which requires them to stand up to threats and bullying. Our leaders should be brave, even though it takes courage to do the right thing in the face of pressure. Our leaders should be reverent, recognizing that the Bible and the Torah, which together cover the vast majority of Scouts, prohibit homosexual behavior - imposing Scout leaders who are not morally straight on our kids is irreverent toward God.


37 posted on 02/01/2013 8:59:59 AM PST by Pollster1
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A major problem is that the 25-40 year old crowd has had massive public school indoctrination to believe homosexuality is normal and they as parents see nothing wrong with boy humpers in the Boy Scouts.

The ironic thing is that they do see heterosexual men with their daughters in the Girl Scouts as wrong.

They see homosexuals as “victims” and want to coddle them with special favors. That’s how the homosexual liberals have brainwashed these feeble minded idiots into thinking about homosexuals, as “victims” needing special privileges to make up for their being “victims”.


38 posted on 02/01/2013 9:00:12 AM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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The now wearisome bullying tactics by the homosexual activists to force their views on others most prominently features one over-riding fact that is inexplicably ignored: THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE ONLY CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES IN FORCING THEIR WORLD VIEW ON OTHERS . . . IT IS ALL ABOUT THEM.

Never mind that we need to spend far more energy and effort on repairing the family and that untold millions of children suffer tremendously because of that neglect. Never mind that they are severely damaging an organization in BSA that has been a tremendous force for good. Never mind that their efforts to change civil rights laws threatens the effectiveness of the Christian church that has for so long ministered to the needs of the sick, the emotional and spiritual needs of countless numbers, who built and operated schools and hospitals, and provided a moral foundation that was the strength of this country from its founding. Never mind that their political success threatens the foundation of a nation whose fundamental virtues make their own decadent lifestyles possible by its tolerance. Never mind that they have vastly overplayed their hand and it may well lead to their own undoing . . . and us along with them. I truly believe that they will be the victim of their sucess, and us along with them.


39 posted on 02/01/2013 9:03:59 AM PST by RatRipper (Self-centeredness, greed, envy, deceit and lawless corruption has killed this once great nation.)
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Recently watched an episode on ID Discovery about a scout master who was gay, married to a woman though, and had sex with multiple boys in his scout troop.

He would intimidate them into silence by taken them all out into the woods and forcing them to dig their own graves and them stand in them while warning them not to talk.

One of the boys mothers discovered them in bed on morning. The boy who was discovered told the gay scoutmaster who then essentially ordered the boy to kill his entire family which he did.

If the Scouts allow people such as this into their ranks, then they should be shut down.

No parent should send then child into harms way, doing so risks any number of lives considering what happened to this boy.


42 posted on 02/01/2013 9:09:19 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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Who owns the brand, logos, name? If a vote can be made to sell off these to a new org, then the new org can be started under BSA with the same branding.

Or organizational elements can secede and coalesce around new but similar brands like ‘The United BSA’ or such.

Marshall McLuhan (”The Medium is the Message”) wrote in the last century a poignant observational anthropological report on primitive African tribal customs and social order. In one small enclave a new tribal chieftain was very abusive of his tribal members and not respecting their long-held customs. He woke up one morning to find the entire village abandoned. There was no one for him to rule over. The entire tribe had picked up while he was sleeping and moved to another region under a new chieftain.

The membership of the BSA should do the same.


44 posted on 02/01/2013 9:13:26 AM PST by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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