Posted on 04/26/2013 5:48:45 PM PDT by virtuous
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has given tacit approval to the Boy Scouts’ proposal to allow gay youth to join, saying they “appreciate the positive things” included in the plan to end the organization's controversial ban on gay boys.
The Boy Scouts of America last week proposed allowing gay youth – but not adults – to participate in the private youth organization. That came two months after they floated the idea of allowing gays and lesbians of all ages to join, a proposal that was denounced by the conservative religious groups that make up a bulk of Scouting.
“We are grateful to BSA for their careful consideration of these issues. We appreciate the positive things contained in this current proposal that will help build and strengthen the moral character and leadership skills of youth as we work together in the future,” the LDS church said Thursday in a statement posted to their website.
“The current BSA proposal constructively addresses a number of important issues that have been part of the ongoing dialogue, including consistent standards for all BSA partners, recognition that Scouting exists to serve and benefit youth rather than Scout leaders, a single standard of moral purity for youth in the program, and a renewed emphasis for Scouts to honor their duty to God." The Mormon church tops the list of membership enrollment numbers, with 431,000 youths participating in LDS-sponsored units as of Dec. 31, 2012. That was followed by the United Methodist Church at 364,000 and the Catholic Church at 274,000. More than 70 percent of Scouting units are chartered to faith-based groups.
The Boy Scouts said Thursday in a statement that it was pleased the LDS church was “satisfied that the BSA has made a thoughtful, good-faith effort to address this issue.”
“For nearly 100 years we have worked together with the mutual goal of building the moral character and leadership skills of youth. We believe kids are better off when they are in Scouting, and the program is successful because of its relationships with valued chartered organizations like the Church,” the statement said.
The Boy Scouts’ policy has increasingly been a sore spot for the organization over the last year, following the dismissal of a den leader because she is a lesbian and the denial of the Eagle Scout rank to a California teen because he is gay.
The BSA’s National Council will vote on changing the membership policy on May 23. Its biannual “The Voice of the Scout Survey,” conducted earlier this year, for the first time included questions on gay membership. Among the 280 administrative local councils, half recommended no change, 38 percent recommended a change and 14 percent took a neutral position, the Scouts said.
"While perspectives and opinions vary significantly, parents, adults in the Scouting community and teens alike tend to agree that youth should not be denied the benefits of Scouting," the organization said last week in a statement.
If you are a current or former member of the Boy Scouts and would like to share your thoughts on how your troop, pack or council is handling the BSA's proposed change to the membership policy, you can email the reporter at miranda.leitsinger@msnbc.com. We may use some comments for a follow-up story, so please specify if your remarks can be used and provide your name, hometown, age, Boy Scout affiliation and a phone number.
Yup!
" who, being themselves but fallible and uninspiredmenCON-ARTISTS, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;"--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786
You can’t find any biblical indulgence of the homo fake arrangement. Polygamy is based on heterosexuality.
I knew they didn’t have real conservative value. After all, they made up their own set of “Holy Books”.
bump
Oh?
The homos just LOVE this verse!!!
2 Samuel 1:26
I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me. Your love for me was wonderful, more wonderful than that of women.
They do not grok agape, Godly love. This is a kind of love which does not call a person to sin, which sodomy would be. It never says that Jonathan scrod David or vice versa. Or even that either worshiped the other. It means that one encouraged the other in the love of God the Father. It’s the thing that the filthy spirits that play in homosexuality are counterfeiting.
“This move is a step toward homosexual Scout leaders and using the Scouts to indoctrinate boys with the radical homosexual agenda.”
Gay Scout leaders are still banned. I like to think the Scout Leaders - and the straight Boy Scouts - might be able to save some of the “gay” kids from leading a life of horrendous pain and suffering.
I wish that every time the LDS Church is mentioned in any way, the Mormon bashers are ready to pounce - even before they have thought it through.
Beck has said before that sodomite “marriage” will not change his life one bit and he sees nothing wrong with it. O’Reilly has said the same thing. Both have also said they are fine with sodomites adopting children. Both these RINOs will say anything to get liberals to like them.
So, it’s OK to diddle young boys as long as you don’t drink a cup of coffee first.
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