Boy Scouts board delays vote on controversial policy banning gays from Scouting

Dallas Morning News ^

[drinktheobamakoolaid]

The Boy Scouts of America board has deferred any decision on its controversial membership policy that bans gays and lesbians from Scouting.

Daron Smith, a spokesman for organization’s national headquarters in Irving, released a statement this morning saying that the national board won’t make a decision today on altering the policy.

Instead, he said, the Boy Scouts will gather more information and opinions from its stakeholders around the nation and then reconsider the membership policy at its annual meeting in May.

[mikelets456]

If that’s the case...Solidad, then men should be able to take the girl scouts out for a weekend. Wait, how about on High School class trips, women teachers are able to room with young adult men. There would never be any concerns with that...right?

Hey Solidad, maybe it’ll be okay if several super models take care of your husband while your traveling on the weekends..okay?

[verga]

Me thinks they are getting an earful from a majority of their members, soon to be ex-members if they pass this stupid ideas.

[Pollster1]

Instead, he said, the Boy Scouts will gather more information and opinions from its stakeholders around the nation and then reconsider the membership policy at its annual meeting in May.

What more information do they need? We have an organization dedicated to teaching and upholding traditional values. They have a set of values that contradict God's word, "morally straight", and every other aspect of Scouting. This will destroy BSA if the leadership makes the wrong decision - Scouting will cease to exist in one generation.

[cricket]

How could they not anticipate such a response?

Well; hoping for the best and may the Boy Scouts prevail by the moral wisdom they so rep. . .on behalf of every Boy Scout; past; present. . .and hopefully; future.

[Arm_Bears]

Who has authority over the Board?

There needs to be a thorough house-cleaning before MAY in which the ATT and Ernst-Young pukes, and their minions, are thrown out.

What organization allows individuals with an animus toward the mission of the organization to sit on their governing Board?

[Gator113]

As we all know, there can be some tough decisions in life, but THIS ISN’T one of them. The BSA should have decisively chosen “NO”, even.... “HELL NO”.

It is my impression that they have already decided and that they are now simply trying to evaluate what their decision is going to cost them.

I want to be wrong, but I strongly suspect that the BSA is now on the path of quickly becoming a homosexual cult.

[what's up]

Good. Much could change in the political climate between now and May.

Obow-ma's 100 day honeymoon will be over and I suspect he will be under fire from the left on some of the budget cuts he will have proposed.

All better cover for the Boy Scouts to vote "no" on gays.

[Yosemitest]

Someone on "The Boy Scouts of America BOARD" wants this, and realizes

he doesn't have the votes to pass it.

Refuse it, kick the "closet homosexual" off the BOARD, and OBEY God!
The quicker you say "NO!" the better off you'll be.
Send these homosexuals to HELL!

[Drawsing]

Send these homosexuals to HELL!

I have a nephew and a good friend's son who are homosexuals. I do not want them to go to hell before they have a chance to repent. My prayers for them will never cease.

[OKC Patriot]

That we are even having this conversation indicates very plainly that the membership of the board needs to be examined and purged of anyone even thinking this is somehow OK..

[Yosemitest]

I sympathize with your problem.
BUT ... Prayers are nice, but for the most part, ineffective.
For homosexuals

"your iniquities have SEPARATED between you and your God,
and your sins have HID his face from you,
that he will NOT hear"

But sometimes ... it does work.
But that's rare.
Greater hope can be found in the Second Resurrection.
If you want to read it described, read Ezekiel 37.
Then God will

"... sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean:
from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you:
and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
And I will put my spirit within you,
and cause you to walk in my statutes,
and ye shall keep my judgments,
and do them. "

They will not be judged until"the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed... ".

I sincerely hope your prayers are answered in the way you asked for. /a

[wbill]

I agree.

If this was going to really happen, it would have been quietly rammed through when no one was looking. IMHO, no way that this passes now.

[Antoninus]

This will destroy BSA if the leadership makes the wrong decision - Scouting will cease to exist in one generation.

Which is why the perverted left looks at this as a win-win situation.

[verga]

If this was going to really happen, it would have been quietly rammed through when no one was looking. IMHO, no way that this passes now.

Biting my tongue so I don't get banned. Please tell me you intended that pun.

[tbw2]

Who are the ATT and Ernst-Young pushing gays in Scouts?

[Jack Hammer]

Let’s hope that one of the last bastions in the United States of moral and honorable behavior doesn’t shoot itself in the foot under pressures from Obama and his teeming Leftist minions.

[Epsdude]

Heheheh, I love you guys.

[Arm_Bears]

Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T, and James Turley, CEO of Ernst & Young, are Board members pushing the BSA to change their current policy regarding homosexuality.