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WHAT'S NEXT? [Boy Scouts of America]
OnMyHonor.net ^ | May 23, 2013

Posted on 05/23/2013 5:04:45 PM PDT by Petrosius

Grapevine, TX – Following the vote today by the Boy Scouts of America’s voting delegates to pass the resolution allowing “open and avowed homosexuality” in the Boy Scouts, John Stemberger, Founder of OnMyHonor.Net, a coalition of members of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) including parents, Scoutmasters, Eagle Scouts and other Scouting leaders who affirm Scouting’s timeless values, made the following statement:

“It is with great sadness and deep disappointment that we recognize on this day that the most influential youth program in America has turned a tragic corner. The vote today to allow open and avowed homosexuality into Scouting will completely transform it into an unprincipled and risky proposition for parents. It is truly a sad day for Scouting.

The Boy Scouts of America has a logo that bears the phrase ‘Timeless Values.’   Today, the BSA can no longer use this phrase in good faith.  It has demonstrated by its actions that the organization’s values are not timeless, and instead they are governed by changing tides of polls, politics and public opinion.

The saddest part of today’s decision is what the organization is teaching our children and young people in the program.

The BSA is teaching our kids that when your values become unpopular, just change them.

The BSA is teaching our kids that when your convictions are challenged, just cave to peer pressure.

The BSA is teaching our kids that public opinion polls are more important than principles.

Today, the BSA is teaching our kids that you should not stand up for what is right instead you should stand up for what is popular.

The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to “prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Scout Law.”

BSA is teaching our kids through its new mission that we don’t make ethical and moral choices through the values of the Scout Oath and Scout Law but we make them like an unprincipled politician does, by putting your finger in the air and seeing which way the wind is blowing or by looking at the latest polling results.

What kind of a message are we sending to young people about being brave when its top adult leaders don’t even have the courage to stand up to the pressure of a militant lobby when the bullies in Washington DC, Hollywood or even some of their own renegade councils start pressuring and harassing them? 

Each and every one of the thousands of Scouting families that have supported and followed our movement must now make a very difficult decision.  We respect the right for each parent and family to decide whether they will continue their membership in the Boy Scouts of American or not.

Many, like me and my family, cannot continue to support an organization more concerned with the intolerant demands of activists while compromising the safety and security of the young people they swore to serve.  In July of last year, after a two year study from 2010 to 2012, the BSA’s eleven member task force unanimously concluded that their existing policy on this issue was “the absolute best policy for the Boy Scouts of America.”  Suddenly, less than a year later, that is abruptly reversed.

We hoped to keep sex and politics out of Scouting. Now we grieve for those young boys who will not have the wonderful traditions and experiences that so many of us have had in Scouting.

Despite this setback, we will look to the future. I am pleased to announce that OnMyHonor.Net along with other likeminded organizations, parents and BSA members, are announcing a coalition meeting that will take place next month in Louisville, Kentucky. There we will discuss the creation of a new character development organization for boys. While the meeting will be private, your voice is very important to us and will be represented there.  We will host and facilitate a national coalition meeting of former BSA parents and other youth leaders who wish to return to truly timeless values that once made the BSA great.  We welcome your comments as we develop our plans. Please share your thoughts with us at Contact@OnMyHonor.Net

We grieve today, not because we are faced with leaving Scouting, but because the Boy Scouts of America has left us. Its leadership has turned its back on 103 years of abiding by a mission to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices.  Instead, it is embarking on a pathway of social experimentation that we believe will place at risk the very youth the organization is entrusted to serve, while rendering as hollow the tenets of the Scout Oath.  Many of us find that unacceptable, and we have a desire to explore how we might serve families and young people at the highest standard originally intended by Scouting’s founder, Robert Baden-Powell.”

OnMyHonor.Net is the nationwide coalition of concerned parents, Scout Leaders, Scouting Donors, Eagle Scouts and other members of the BSA who are united in their support of Scouting’s timeless values and in their opposition to open homosexuality in the Boy Scouts. More information at www.OnMyHonor.Net.

 

For further information, please contact Jameson Cunningham or Dan Wilson with Shirley & Banister Public Affairs at (703) 739-5920 or (800) 536-5920.


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1 posted on 05/23/2013 5:04:45 PM PDT by Petrosius
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2 posted on 05/23/2013 5:06:28 PM PDT by South40
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To: South40

A smaller Boy Scouts.


3 posted on 05/23/2013 5:09:22 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Petrosius
Boy's Life magazine will no longer be the tremendously innocent reading material once the buggerer's get going.

For this we need to personally thank the honorary chairman, Barack Hussein Obama and his homo cohorts for tearing down another American tradition.

4 posted on 05/23/2013 5:09:41 PM PDT by Slyfox (The red face of shame is proof that the conscience is still operational.)
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To: Slyfox

I say we need a new Boy Scouts.

Everything the old Boy Scouts was.

Now.


5 posted on 05/23/2013 5:10:58 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Petrosius

What next?

Nothing good.


6 posted on 05/23/2013 5:11:10 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: South40

Good luck starting a new group. These kids have been robbed by leftist freaks.


7 posted on 05/23/2013 5:12:53 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
From the statement:

I am pleased to announce that OnMyHonor.Net along with other likeminded organizations, parents and BSA members, are announcing a coalition meeting that will take place next month in Louisville, Kentucky. There we will discuss the creation of a new character development organization for boys.

8 posted on 05/23/2013 5:13:38 PM PDT by Petrosius
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i would suspect many,’many troops will break off and form christian scouting groups, either together or small and separate.


9 posted on 05/23/2013 5:13:46 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Viennacon

Royal Ambassadors.


10 posted on 05/23/2013 5:14:57 PM PDT by South40
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

http://www.youngminutemen.com/


11 posted on 05/23/2013 5:14:59 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Kinda like we need a new republic?

Everything the old republic was?

Not going to happen, I believe. Tribulation is at hand before anything can be restored.


12 posted on 05/23/2013 5:15:42 PM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Petrosius

It’s just a lesser evil. Were we not told that we had to accept lesser evils by some screaming freepers?

This is what that got them.


13 posted on 05/23/2013 5:19:32 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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Unbelievable decision. What about the young boys that could be molested since they will have to be around a person who can openly discuss their views and promote it. This was an opening for gay scout leaders and of that recruiting. I was going to send BSA a large donation if they stood firm. I will not do that now. My 2 brothers are taking their sons out of scouting. They are very sad. They tell me it’s like losing a good friend; a place to go so the child can just be a kid. Good people have to stand up to this. Stop donating; hurt them to where they reverse this decision or shut them down. 60% did not want this..this is too odd.


14 posted on 05/23/2013 5:20:03 PM PDT by Christie at the beach
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Scouts has been religiously pluralistic for a long time. Next any religion or practitioner that dares to define sodomy as a sin, and dares to come against at not morally straight, will be banned. This is an apocalypse. Let’s thank God for it.


15 posted on 05/23/2013 5:21:34 PM PDT by Theophilus (Not merely prolife, but prolific)
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It’s just a lesser evil.

How so? Are you referring to the effort to form a new scouting organization or the BSA vote to allow homosexuals?

16 posted on 05/23/2013 5:21:57 PM PDT by Petrosius
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17 posted on 05/23/2013 5:23:22 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: rarestia

I disagree with your comparison.

Sure our nation is split, and our side is half the time, on the wrong side - sending American factories to a nation already superior to our own in industry just to make stuff “cheaper”. Screw that.

I have a lot of b*tches about Republicans. Do not get me started.

But Scouts is different.

Scouts has been perfect, for a very long time. Now they are deeply, deeply flawed. And this happened ... today.

Today.

Time for a real, and immediate, replacement. Or a split, a breakaway of “real scouts”. Something, and soon.

Period.

Now.


18 posted on 05/23/2013 5:23:38 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Petrosius

I am sarcasticly referring to all the conservatives in name only that we had to moderate our views on issues like homos and abortion to elect a hard leftist that supported gays in scouting, the military and everywhere else. They called it a ‘lesser evil’

They got half of what they campaigned for at least.


19 posted on 05/23/2013 5:24:46 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Petrosius
What's next is the destruction of the Boy Scouts of America.
Many will withdraw their children and their support for ANY organization that supports homosexuals.

Those who support homosexuals are against our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ.
These anti Christ people only bring destruction on us ALL.
I have NO sympathy for homosexuals!

Homosexuality is a "Mark" of disobedience.
Someone once asked The answer is in the definition of "REPROBATE". And the reason"why" is given in the Bible.

God has a cure for homosexuals.
20 posted on 05/23/2013 5:26:53 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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