Posted on 05/24/2013 6:32:58 AM PDT by chessplayer
As counterintuitive as it may sound for an organization with such a wholesome and all-American reputation, it seems that secrecy and heavy-handed tactics are the order of the day at the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) meeting that will decide whether the BSA will change its century-old policy to expand its membership to include open and avowed homosexuals.
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Not quite what you asked for, but close ... from The Pink Swastika.
NOV 1992 – NAMBLA sent a letter to BSA Chief Scout Executive Ben Love in which NAMBLA predicted that BSA would eventually succumb to homosexual demands. The letter was also published in the NOV, 1992 NAMBLA Bulletin.
Dear Mr. Love, (Chief Scout Executive, BSA)
At its 16th membership conference, held in Chicago, August 7-9-1992, the North American Man/Boy Love Association unanimously adopted the following resolution:
“NAMBLA calls on the Boy Scouts of America to cease its discrimination against openly gay or lesbian persons in the appointment of its scout masters. This will permit scouts to be exposed to a variety of lifestyles and will permit more of those individuals who genuinely wish to serve boys to do so.”
I feel especially honored to have been asked to alert you of this resolution. I have also been a scout and a scout leader and share with so many in NAMBLA affection for the movement.
We recognize, of course, that the action for which we call is inevitable. What a great added contribution your organization will make possible to all the boys and girls who participate in it when you take this step. May it be taken in the near future.
We share a common mission — to bring greater understanding and light and purpose to the young as they grow. We invite you to join with us in cherishing individual integrity, and in seeking the opportunity for every boy and girl in our country to find their own truth. We encourage you to help every person associated with your organization to be able to express those values from themselves which to them represent for themselves the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. As we work together toward these ends Light will guide our way.
We express these sentiments most respectfully,
Very Cordially,
Leland Stevenson
Co-Recording Secretary, NAMBLA
Thumbs up on your post. Astute.
While I would like to agree, the evidence supports massive executive managerial incompetence tampering with the store's business model as the reason for the store's brutal loss of share of market. The executive who created this debacle, if I remember correctly, came over from Apple.
Women are the primary shoppers at JCPenny. They loved the sales and discount coupons. When the new exec (who was let go this year) came on board he dispensed with the coupons and sales - made everything 1 low price. The women shoppers voted with their feet.
While I have no use for Ellen DeGeneres, the public seems to love her. I do not think having her as a JCPenny spokesman hurt the store. Not sure about the 2012 Mother's Day and Father's Day catalog ads which included pictures of homosexual couples and children.
And yet others are more homophilic.
2019 – 24th World Scout Jamboree at the Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve, Mount Hope, WV. The projected attendance is several tens of thousands of Scouts from around the world, aged 14 to 17. BSA will co-host the event with Scouts Canada and the Mexican Scout Association.
Scouts Canada is already infected with the homosexualists. One report I read said that the Summit is in deep red debt getting ready for this summer's National Scout Jamboree.
You could be right. BSA is babysitter for single moms and most single moms don’t care if Johnny grows up to be an emasculated 0bamabot.
They’ll have to remove the “morally straight” clause of the pledge now.
Actually, they did, though they did it under court order.
I read hundreds of pages of the documentation posted online by a newspaper. It included a specific situation with an adult leader I knew decades ago a Cub Scout, a leader who was removed with no public explanation (at least none that I knew about as a boy; maybe the adults knew).
And then, there was an E-4 chaplain’s assistant working as a Scout Leader here at Fort Leonard Wood decades ago who got removed from Scouting, and later on ended up having to register as a sex offender due to subsequent civilian criminal convictions.
To say I got angry after reading the Scouting files is a gross understatement.
The Scouts did the right thing to remove these people from contact with young boys — including me.
To do anything else would have been a gross dereliction of duty.
Absurd. An openly homosexual Boy Scout is a child and, given that most churches run Scout Troops, an opportunity to redeem a lost soul. They’re at most 2% of the population and likely even fewer among the Scouts proper.
See it as an opportunity to undo the damage done. These kids can be helped and straightened out. Quitters never win.
That’s silly. Since its inception there likely have been secretly homosexual Boy Scouts. Now, let it out into the light where it can be managed and treated. These are confused boys who need direction, clarity and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Love them back to normalcy.
Don’t abandon them to deviancy.
Yuri Besmenov was a prophet. America's "demoralization" is complete. We are ripe for the fall.
When confronted, the FedEx manager admitted that when he saw the handouts being printed in the shop that he contacted the hotel to tip off BSA staff so they could respond.
Somehow I see in my mind a pimply faced Nazi youth.
This what happens after generations of children are sent into godless government owned and run socialist-entitlement schools. And.....Christians and conservatives let them and continue to allow it.
It is **foolish** and wrong to engage ** children** ( other boy scouts) in what should be spiritual and emotional therapy.
The better solution is to form a young boys church organization that participates with other churches in a Christian Boys group, exclude homosexuals and teach morality, honesty and God’s word. You save what you can discard the rest. It is a fact of life. By the way homosexual rapes are way up in the military, so much inclusion.
You are obviously in the minority around here, and as far I am concerned an enabler for homosexual agenda by standing by the decison.
Your pseudonymous personal opinion is meaningless to me. I’m often in the minority and it doesn’t bother me. My principles are deep and well founded.
How does this decision to allow homosexual youth in Scouting promote the homosexual agenda?
Are there now in Scouting, boys who feel they’re homosexual?
Isn’t it better that the religious leaders of the sponsors as well as the Scout leaders themselves know who these troubled boys are?
How else can they get the help they need?
Homosexuality isn’t a permanent condition beyond the power of Jesus Christ’s Atonement. Homosexuality thrives on secrecy of perversion. This decision is consistent with the Scout purpose http://usscouts.org/advance/boyscout/bsoathlaw.asp as well as Christianity.
You don’t redeem the boy by forcing him to hide his problem. Stop playing checkers with homosexuality. Play chess instead. Homosexuality is a mental disorder and treatable.
How many cured homosexual boys would it take to completely destroy the homosexual agenda? Think outside the box.
So as a Scout leader (you are an active Scout leader, right? Not just some grump with an Internet connection?) a young man comes to you to say that he’s homosexual what is your next move?
Utterly silly and I doubt you’re a deacon or a Christian (it’s capitalized BTW). So your church sponsors a Scout troop? A young man comes out as “homosexual” and your first response as a leader and Christian is to abandon him?
You sound like a whiney simp. Weak, with a capital “W”.
This attitude is why conservatives lose, they’re not game to fight all the way to winning.
Do post a video of you, shirtless, in front of all your Scouts. What a great example.
So it’s better to abandon the boy to his lifestyle than lead him to Christ and a lifestyle that’s morally straight?
Single moms in Scouting know just how badly their sons need positive male role models. Her son, if he thinks he’s afflicted with homosexuality, likely is the victim of sexual abuse.
Let’s just wash our hands of it, right? It’s not the Christian thing to step in, work hard and do our Savior’s will.
When good men do nothing, evil prevails.
Do you have a medical, genetic or logical reason for believing that homosexuality isn’t treatable mental illness?
Where better to treat it than at its root in youth.
You don’t cure sin by indulging in it or enabling it.
Exactly correct. Isn’t it about time we take back our children? Homosexuality is acting on the margins, at the dim, gray area between light and dark. Bring it out into the light.
It’s curable and conservatives should wimper away, but stand and fight. Morally straight means something and a heterosexual Scout who is having sex with girls isn’t morally straight. It’s the same standard for a homosexual Scout, only now you know about his illness and can treat it appropriately.
I don’t know a single mom with a son in Scouting that wants him to be homosexual. They’d welcome the help. Maybe your church troop is different, but ours would work with him to get him out of the lifestyle and lead a Christian life.
Why do you believe it is not leavening to insert a pinch of leaven in the dough? ... Shirley you get the gist of that analogy. But then again, the concept is perhaps too hugh for you to take series.
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