Posted on 05/27/2013 9:02:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Members of GLAAD, a nonprofit organization that promotes LGBT advocacy, was at the Boy Scouts of America's headquarters in Irving, Texas, on Friday – one day after the BSA's national council voted to allow openly gay membership – to advocate for additional policy changes acceptable to the gay community.
Former scouts Dave and Joe McGrath, a father and son duo who both earned the rank of Eagle Scout, biked 1,400 miles from Idaho Falls, Idaho, to the BSA's meeting in Grapevine to encourage the 1,400 voting delegates of the BSA's national council to vote in favor of the resolution to allow openly gay scouts, which passed by a vote of 61 to 39 percent. The ban on openly gay adult leaders is still in place.
On Friday, GLAAD documented Dave McGrath's entry into BSA headquarters to meet with staff and to deliver the LGBT community's 95 objections to their policies. Among these objections is the BSA's standing policy that bans adults who are openly gay from becoming scout leaders and volunteers.
Both factions of the scouting community – the LGBT scouts and traditional scouts – agree that the BSA's policies are now in conflict, because it accepts openly gay membership of students, but when they turn 18, they would then be ineligible to participate as scout leaders.
Many say the BSA's only option is to ask the national council delegates to vote on additional policy changes, possibly as soon as next year, to allow openly gay adults to become scout leaders and volunteers.
During Thursday's press conference outside the BSA's convention at the Gaylord Texan, Tico Perez, BSA national commissioner, refused to answer questions about lifting the ban on openly gay adults.
The policy change for openly gay youth will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2014, and will impact 116,000 scouting units, according to the BSA.
In a statement released Thursday evening, the BSA reiterated its support for the LGBT community by stating they wouldn't allow the organization to be "consumed by a single, divisive and unresolved societal issue."
"As the National Executive Committee just completed a lengthy review process, there are no plans for further review on this matter," the statement reads. "While people have different opinions about this policy, we can all agree that kids are better off when they are in Scouting."
Justin Bickford, communications director for Scouts for Equality, told CP on Thursday that their next mission is to push for openly gay leadership in the BSA. Many traditional scout leaders contend that gay adults are already serving as scout leaders and are doing so with discretion. Their disagreement is with the perceived sexual advocacy among the few LGBT leaders who were asked to leave the BSA for promoting their agenda.
John Stemberger, the founder of OnMyHonor, a coalition of scout leaders and parents of Boy Scouts members, consistently reiterated that gay scouts and gay scout leaders were actively participating in the BSA before Thursday's vote, and said there was never a ban on homosexuals in the scouts. According to Stemberger, "the BSA has a nondiscrimination policy," and the ban was on "gay activism" and "flaunting sexuality."
"With great sorrow, this will be last time I wear this uniform," Stemberger, whose coalition opposed membership changes, announced Thursday evening during the OnMyHonor press conference. He said his role will be to facilitate the process of deciding where the newly displaced scouting community will go, after being exiled from the BSA.
Stemberger said his movement includes "tens of thousands of parents, scouts that are disillusioned, troops that are going to fold and chartering partners."
On his website, OnMyHonor.Net, Stemberger has announced a June coalition meeting in Louisville, Ky., to "discuss the creation of a new character development organization for boys. We will host a national coalition meeting of former BSA parents and youth leaders who wish to return to timeless values that once made the BSA great."
Elizabeth Pritchard, the pack committee chair for Pack 928 in Southlake, Texas, told CP that she's been calling the American Heritage Girls to ask if they plan to start a program for boys. One program that has been announced is FaithBasedBoys.org, a newly created interdenominational organization for boys 5 to 18, that is scheduled to launch in the fall, and will receive guidance from American Heritage Girls.
Others who are departing the BSA en masse are waiting to see if the Royal Ambassadors, a Southern Baptist missions organization for boys in first through sixth grades, will be expanding their program to include the estimated 200,000 to 400,000 scouts who will be leaving the BSA.
Don’t forget the military and federal employees.
that didn’t take long...
That pic alone tells you all you need to know about how “normal” the other side is
they will never stop.
They want natural law to change to allow normalization of this, but we do NOT have that kind of power.
So, it will never stop. And they do not care if they destroy civilization trying. Why should they?
The problem is conservatives have abandoned the struggle.
Conservatives need to do things in America. Conservatives need to make things in America. At American factories.
Run by Americans.
Not send them overseas. That is what is slowly destroying America.
Bring back American jobs. Bring back American manufacturing.
China is now the largest exporter in the world. Half the stuff in any store (more than half actually) is imported from China.
All those things made in China, do not benefit any American workers. They only help China.
We need to bring American jobs home now.
The board members who voted for this should be ousted. What they are potentially subjecting their members and leaders to is horrific. The GLBT advocates will never give up. They have their nose in the tent. No way they stop there.
Give them an inch, they’ll shove it in a mile.
If I ever hear of anyone claiming to have been an eagle scout I will ask, what good is it when you couldn’t fight back against the open homosexual takeover of the one group our country could look to and depend on for hope in raising boys to be chaste men?
The Boys Scouts should have remained committed to their private organization versus cantering to these minority extremists. Shameful, didn’t take long. The people who voted for this change, I hope they are satisfied by putting their cowardliness before all of those young boys safety and well being. Come on, gay land is insane for most of us. Everyone is not into this choice. Why push this on children. It’s clear what is going on. Destroying morality.
Spread the word: Homosexual radicals destroyed the Boy Scouts. Call them what they are—homosexual radicals, not gay activists or anything else but homosexual radicals. They are not gay—they are homosexual. They are not activists—they are radicals.
This victory against the Boy Scouts should be a black eye for the homosexual radicals. This should be the line in the sand. They have declared war on us in many ways, they have waged a blitzkrieg against our traditional values and they show no signs of stopping. The homo-nazis have been winning because they take the offensive and they attack us when we do not expect them. What is going to be their next attack?
Hopefully this will shake many complacent people into finally waking up. These wackos are not going to stop until we stop them. We can begin to stop them by taking command of the language. Call them what they are: HOMOSEXUAL RADICALS.
Homos wants themselves some young, fresh meat!
Any parent that is stupid enough to keep their kids in the the Scouts frankly deserves to have them molested. The BSA is a disgrace to everything it once stood for.
I was a Life scout.
(one step short of Eagle)
I am wholeheartedly now for one of two things happening. Immediately:
1) Either this foolish nonsense is immediately reversed, completely.
2) The boy scouts folds. And another organization takes its place.
Now.
Time to disband.
French gay marriage opponents stage big Paris march (Several hundreds of thousands)
Al Reuters | 05/27/2013 | Tom Heneghan
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Belgrade, Serbia...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr_Inbf9aps
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Georgia PM condemns violence at gay rights march... 5-17-2013
http://www.neurope.eu/article/georgia-pm-condemns-violence-gay-rights-march
French gay marriage opponents stage big Paris march (Several hundreds of thousands)
Al Reuters | 05/27/2013 | Tom Heneghan
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Belgrade, Serbia...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr_Inbf9aps
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Georgia PM condemns violence at gay rights march... 5-17-2013
http://www.neurope.eu/article/georgia-pm-condemns-violence-gay-rights-march
1) Either this foolish nonsense is immediately reversed, completely.
2) The boy scouts folds. And another organization takes its place.
Now.
>> I agree.....
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