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Jewish Scouting leaders vocal on gay inclusion
Jewish Telegraphic Agency ^ | May 9, 2013 | Gil Shefler

Posted on 05/10/2013 7:12:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Jewish Scouting leaders are taking a vocal role in efforts to pass a historic resolution that would partially lift a ban on gays in the Boy Scouts of America.

In a meeting of the National Jewish Committee on Scouting in February, members voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution lifting the BSA’s longstanding ban on gay members. … The resolution would not change the BSA’s ban on gay adult leaders.

“I am advocating for complete change and inclusiveness,” NJCOS Chairman A.J. Kreimer told JTA this week. “I’m speaking with other people and as an area president, one of 26 in the country, I have advocated for fellow Scouters to do the same.”

The struggle over the BSA’s position on gays has divided the national youth organization at a time when public opinion has grown markedly more accepting of homosexuality. …

(Excerpt) Read more at jta.org ...


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To: eCSMaster

Disappointing.

“On my honor I will do my best ...”

Now why don’t we just publish the entire BOY SCOUT OATH:

“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.”

Morally STRAIGHT! Not a dimrat alive could honestly take that oath.

LLS


21 posted on 05/10/2013 8:21:25 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: Olog-hai

Liberal Judaism and Liberal Christianity are strange birds. Its an indication of those who don’t really believe but want the social trappings of religion. Being a Jew or Christian or Catholic is just a label they embrace often purposely to undermine the very religion they identify with.

Liberals are like that. That is why they seek to force their way into predominantly conservative organizations. You never see conservatives trying to become members of GLAAD or other left wing groups nor do we try to take over them or change their policies. That is the difference between conservatives and liberals. We may not like them but we respect their freedom to believe what they believe and run their organizations the way they see fit. That is something that used to be appreciated in this country. The idea of Freedom of Association today has become chained down in order to promote politically correct homogeneity.

The whole idea of gay scouts is based on a false narrative. The first being that young people of scouting age are mature enough to identify with a sexual orientation and even if they are should it be something that is a focus? Scouting was never about sex in my troop. It was the furthest thing from our minds and that was a good thing and while that may not be the case for ever child its during this time of development that it is important that bad sexual influences not enter in. The last thing a young man needs who is just starting to deal with his sexuality is another misguided boy showing sexual interest in him. So much time is spent on the self esteem of self identified homosexuals but what about the majority of normal boys?

Do we really want to tolerate the environment at campouts that is indistinguishable from that at English boarding schools? I sure don’t. Its unnecessary. Homosexuality by its very nature is largely predatory simply because most people do not have such overt tendencies which means that those with such drives who wish to fulfill them usually have to do it through subterfuge with those who identify as straight usually involving some form of sexual overtness. A friend of ours encountered such a situation when a “bisexual” girl joined their church and badly influenced their impressionable daughter for a time who then went through a phase where she approached nearly all her girl friends trying to get them to kiss her making inappropriate uncomfortable comments, etc. Thankfully it passed but not before all the other girls had to deal with it. It doesn’t help that the common accepted stereotype of gay behavior is one that tolerates sexual overtness in language and demeanor so much so that it is almost expected. Sure you can kick them out if they cause trouble but why invite trouble to begin with. Its like inviting a child that is proud pot smoker into a troop provided they don’t smoke pot at camp.


22 posted on 05/10/2013 8:25:41 AM PDT by Maelstorm (This country wasn't founded with the battle cry "Give me liberty or give me a govt check!")
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To: Olog-hai
a historic resolution that would partially lift a ban on gays in the Boy Scouts of America.

A "partial ban"?

What does that mean?
No sodomy on even-numbered days in even-numbered tents?

Any open acceptance of sodomists will destroy the BSA.

What sensible, responsible parent will approve of their son going on overnight camping trips with avowed homosexuals?


23 posted on 05/10/2013 8:38:08 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama-Ville - Land of The Freebies, Home of the Enslaved)
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To: Olog-hai

I hate to point out the obvious, but the unwillingness of moral, Orthodox Jews to condemn or reject leftist atheist and even antisemitic Jews has created the same problem that Muslims have when they do not condemn or reject Islamism.

In other words, Orthodox Jews must finally *define* Judaism as a religion, not as a culture or philosophy or a people. And if someone does not embrace moral Judaism, they should no longer be called Jews.

It really is as serious as when some ancient Hebrews just could not *resist* making burned sacrifices of their children to Ammonite god Moloch. Today there are far too many Jews who do the same to the atheist god Marx.

In effect, the penalty must be near the same. For sacrificing to Moloch, Hebrews were to be killed. Even *not* killing such Hebrews was a crime in itself. Today failed Jews should not face real death, but only the death of expulsion, that they and their descent are no longer called Jews or recognized as such by other Jews.


24 posted on 05/10/2013 8:38:12 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Orthodox Jews (who are the minority) do exactly that, meaning condemn the liberalism; the liberal Jews do not listen and actually revile the orthodox types, even vilifying many as “ultra-orthodox” (just like the secular liberals here set up their “religious right” strawman).

It’s the exact reverse of what happens in Islam, where the liberals are the minority and the majority listen to radical imams. No comparison there.

Only 11 percent of US Jews (and 15 percent of Israeli Jews) identify themselves as orthodox these days, besides.


25 posted on 05/10/2013 8:56:02 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: iowamark

“Un-Orthodox Jews.”

In truth, Anti-Jews.


26 posted on 05/10/2013 9:33:52 AM PDT by DesScorp
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To: Olog-hai

Funny how the contemporary Jewish intellectuals have always been on the wrong side of history when it comes to consequences for their religion.


27 posted on 05/10/2013 10:06:14 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: txrefugee
Great discussion about Jews and Judaism in the U.S. and BSA. I agree that it is the larger, liberal U.S. Jewish sects (Reformed and Conservative) and the secular Jews in the U.S. who are driving the progressive agenda in the U.S. to push the U.S. over the economic and cultural cliff. There can be no compromise with these people. They are the enemy. Just a few historical observations ...

1. Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn (sp) placed blame on the Jews in Russia for pushing the Bolshevik revolution.

2. 1921 - The Emergency Quota Act, also known as the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, the Per Centum Law, and the Johnson Quota Act (ch. 8, 42 Stat. 5 of May 19, 1921) restricted immigration into the U.S. Although intended as temporary legislation, the Act "proved in the long run the an important turning-point in American immigration policy" because it added 2 new features to American immigration law: (1) numerical limits on immigration from Europe and (2) the use of a quota system for establishing those limits. The Emergency Quota Act restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the U.S. as of the U.S. Census of 1910. Based on that formula, the number of new immigrants admitted fell from 805,228 in 1920 to 309,556 in 1921-22. The act meant that only people of Northern Europe who had similar cultures to that of America were likely to get in. The reason given was that the American government wanted to protect its culture when this act was introduced, however some felt it was mainly a response to millions of Eastern European Jews fleeing persecution that had been growing since about 1890, and which was becoming unbearable. Also, many believed these Jewish immigrants were importing communism with them.

3. 1965 - The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler Act, INS, Act of 1965, Pub.L. 89–236) abolished the National Origins Formula that had been in place in the U.S. since the Emergency Quota Act of 1921. It was proposed by U.S. Representative Emanuel Celler (D-NY: His paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother were German Jews. This was the culminating moment in Celler's 41-year fight to overcome restriction on immigration to the U.S. based on national origin.), co-sponsored by U.S. Senator Philip Hart (D-MI) and heavily supported by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA). The Hart-Celler Act replaced the EQA with a preference system that focused on immigrants' skills and family relationships with citizens or U.S. residents. It marked a radical break from the immigration policies of the past. The law as it stood then excluded Asians and Africans and preferred northern and western Europeans over southern and eastern ones. At the height of the civil rights movement of the 1960s the law was seen as an embarrassment by, among others, POTUS #35 JFK, who called the then-quota-system "nearly intolerable". Some historians thought that JFK saw a chance for retaliation in response to the anti-Irish Catholic bigotry by WASPs he encountered as a younger man. After Kennedy's assassination, POTUS #36 LBJ signed the bill at the foot of the Statue of Liberty as a symbolic gesture. In order to convince the American populace - the majority of who were opposed to the act - of the legislation's merits, its liberal proponents assured that passage would not influence America's culture significantly. POTUS #36 LBJ called the bill "not revolutionary", SoS Dean Rusk estimated only a few thousand Indian immigrants over the next 5 years, and other politicians, including Senator Ted Kennedy, hastened to reassure the populace that the demographic mix would not be affected; these assertions would later prove wildly inaccurate. In line with earlier immigration law, the bill also prohibited the entry into the country of "sexual deviants", including homosexuals. By doing so it crystallized the policy of the INS that had previously been rejecting homosexual immigrants on the grounds that they were "mentally defective" or had a "constitutional psychopathic inferiority". After ethnic quotas on immigration were removed in 1965, the number of actual 1st generation immigrants living in the U.S. eventually quadrupled from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007. Over 1 million persons were naturalized as U.S. citizens in 2008. The leading countries of origin of immigrants to the U.S. were Mexico, India, the Philippines, and China. Nearly 14 million immigrants entered the U.S. from 2000 to 2010. Family reunification accounts for approximately two-thirds of legal immigration to the U.S. every year. The number of foreign nationals who became legal permanent residents (LPRs) of the U.S. in 2009 as a result of family reunification (66%) exceeded those who became LPRs on the basis of employment skills (13%) and for humanitarian reasons (17%).

Rep. Celler's crusade to pass this law was fueled by the persecutions of Jews in Nazi Germany during the 1930s. Many tried to immigrate and claim refugee status in the U.S. but were denied.

4. 2005 - Rev. Dr. Zahl, an ordained (Episcopal) orthodox Christian theologian and prolific writer, published his book, The Christianity Primer: Two Thousand Years of Amazing Grace – The History, Development, and Meaning of the Christian Religion. Excerpt below ...

Chapter XXI The Twentieth Century: The Challenge of Three Formidable Problems
p. 295 JUDAISMS ENDURING NO
… Judaism’s enduring no (refusal to accept Jesus Christ as the Son of God/ messiah) has never changed. Judaism has been strengthened immeasurably by the identity-renewing fact of the Holocaust and its political consequence, the creation of the state of Israel (despite the fact that Jews in the United States are increasingly secularized). The Christian significance of Judaism’s no has been worked out in changed doctrine for the Roman Catholics and sapped confidence for the Protestants. Large sectors of Christianity have lost their nerve as a result of Judaism’s negation. …

p. 286 The Catholic Church altered its teaching … As a result of awareness of the Holocaust, the Catholic Church actually altered its historic teaching concerning Jews. Instead of saying that Jews needed to become Christians to be saved, Pope John Paul II instead declared just after the turn of the (21st) century that Jews have their own way to God and their own covenant and that these are just as valid for Jews as the New Covenant is for Christians. he was able with the stroke of a pen to declare null and void a position that his predecessors had taken from the earliest times. …

p. 295 … I predict that the next 30 years will see Christians needing to work very hard to absorb the impact of Jewish perspectives without giving up their own souls. The Southern Baptists, who have not compromised in relation to “Jewish evangelism,” may in fact end up carrying the soul of Bible Christianity for the rest of the Protestant churches during this era of Christian insecurity concerning the Person of Christ. … 5. The 112th U.S. Congress (2011-2012) contained 39 Jewish members - 12 senators (12/100 = 12%) and 27 representatives (27/435 = 6%). Only 1 out of the 39 was a Republican. The 38 Democrat Jewish members all had ACU (American Conservative Union) voting ratings of <15, which meant they all voted very liberal. Both of CA’s senators are Jewish. CA and NY each has 6 Jewish representatives.

28 posted on 05/10/2013 12:11:22 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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29 posted on 05/13/2013 5:27:36 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: Olog-hai

Scouts take on the image of who sponsors them.

This group is Reform, which is the Episcopal Church version of Jews, less the ham and cheese, but including the lobster, sodomy, and general rejection of Torah, G-d, Talmud, and tradition.


30 posted on 05/13/2013 7:33:19 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: MacNaughton

“agree that it is the larger, liberal U.S. Jewish sects (Reformed and Conservative) and the secular Jews in the U.S. who are driving the progressive agenda in the U.S.”

They are certainly participants, but to say they are “driving the progressive agenda” is a bit much. Jews, overall, make 1.7% of the USA population. Probably 1/3 is Republican, and 1/3 is non-political, so you’re dealing with .6% of the the USA population.

They can be influential in their small way, but “driving”? Hardly.

And there are plenty of conservative secular Jews (as much I dislike secular Jews): Mark Levin, Jonah Goldberg, etc.


31 posted on 05/13/2013 7:38:29 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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I wonder if any other religious groups are supporting mentally ill sex perverts in the BSA> Any religious group that does so is violating the tenets of their religion, since every religion in the worlds holds illicit sex of any kind - what to speak of the "crime against nature" - as an abominatble sin. I thought homos in the BSA was now on the books; from the article it appears it's not a done deal yet?

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32 posted on 05/13/2013 8:55:15 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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Oh, and btw - if more and more people are accepting of sodomy, why did everyone stop shopping at Penneys once the got Ellen Degenerate as spokeshomo? And started putting all those homo “famliies” in ads? Thei sales dropped like a stone. And fag TV shows are getting dropped? The fact is, we’re SICK OF IT!


33 posted on 05/13/2013 8:57:04 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Maelstorm

Excellent comments!


34 posted on 05/13/2013 9:00:30 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Olog-hai

These Jews need to spend more time reading the Torah. And they should remember that Jews were hated in the Hellenistic world for opposing pederasty.


35 posted on 05/13/2013 9:09:30 AM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Maelstorm
...Do we really want to tolerate the environment at campouts that is indistinguishable from that at English boarding schools?...

LOL - Good one!

Your entire post is spot on.

36 posted on 05/13/2013 9:56:47 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Today failed Jews should not face real death, but only the death of expulsion, that they and their descent are no longer called Jews or recognized as such by other Jews.

I have read that Orthodox rabbis in Israel have been trying to accomplish that very thing with their country's atheist leftists of Jewish parentage.

37 posted on 05/13/2013 10:00:51 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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To: Olog-hai

moles.

They are implying ALL of the same faith are thinking the same.

it is the false peer propaganda.


38 posted on 05/13/2013 10:11:21 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: MacNaughton
Thank you for your post. Gives a lot to think about/research. I have been long pondering this situation. It would seem that God has intended a group of Jews to remain Orthodox and to remain within the borders of Israel, whether geographical or spiritual. This reality is tied to the conflict between Islam and the rest of us that began with Abraham, the child of his wife Sarah (Isaac, ancestor of the Jews) and the child of his concubine Hagar (Ishmael, ancestor of the muslims). At the point of the historic and inevitable collision yet to come (world war betweem muslims and the rest of us), He Who was known as the Christ will return in glory and will be recognized as the Messiah this time by Jews, and also by muslims, to reign over all peoples of the earth.

Here are some Bible verses that, to me, may indicate the Will of God to leave a remnant of Jews on earth to continue to set this situation in motion:

“Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries. --Ezekiel 6:8

“I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob, I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together like sheep of the fold, like a flock in the midst of their pasture; they shall make a loud noise because of so many people. --Micah 2:12

And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, who, if he passes through, both treads down and tears in pieces, and none can deliver. --Micah 5:8

The coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed their flocks there; in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the Lord their God will intervene for them, and return their captives. --Zephaniah 2:7

Therefore, as I live,” says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Surely Moab shall be like Sodom, and the people of Ammon like Gomorrah — overrun with weeds and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation. The residue of My people shall plunder them, and the remnant of My people shall possess them.” --Zephaniah 2:9

“Therefore wait for Me,” says the Lord, “Until the day I rise up for plunder; My determination is to gather the nations to My assembly of kingdoms, to pour on them My indignation, all My fierce anger; all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of My jealousy. --Zephaniah 3:8

For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; the city shall be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city. --Zechariah 14:2

Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved. --Romans 9:27

Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. --Romans 11:5


39 posted on 05/13/2013 10:52:56 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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25 posted on 5/10/2013 10:56:02 AM by Olog-hai: “Only 11 percent of US Jews (and 15 percent of Israeli Jews) identify themselves as orthodox these days, besides.”

True, but assimilation, birthrates, and aggressive outreach by stricter Jewish groups all mean a change is coming sooner rather than later.

The future of Judaism likely belongs to either the Modern Orthodox or the Hasidim, with a larger community of Jewish people who are partially observant and affirm Scriptural standards of what it means to be Jewish even if they do not necessarily follow those standards.

The sooner that liberal Jews stop calling themselves Jews, the better things will be. Liberal Jews are giving their faith a very bad name, and have been doing so far too long.

40 posted on 05/13/2013 10:59:20 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
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