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Southern Baptists Plan to Leave Boy Scouts 'En Masse.'
Newser ^ | June 2, 2013 | Ruth Brown

Posted on 06/03/2013 12:49:49 PM PDT by Prole

(Newser) – The Boy Scouts of America's decision last month to allow gay members was made with the blessings of many churches and religious groups—but not all of them. And here's a pretty significant opponent: The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in America with 45,000 congregations and 16 million members, says it will now urge its followers to leave the Scouts, reports CNN. The Boy Scouts says Baptist churches currently sponsor nearly 4,000 units, containing more than 100,000 kids.

The Southern Baptist Convention will vote on a resolution to disaffiliate with the Scouts this month, and a spokesperson says he expects 99% of people to vote in support of it. "Southern Baptists are going to be leaving the Boy Scouts en masse," he says.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: baptists; bsa; christianity; democrats; homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes; religion; scouting; scouts
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To: silverleaf

Find a true southern Baptist church. I grew up SBC then wandered to a Methodist church with my wife. After about 4 years of seeing how they spent my tithes and hearing milk-toast sermons, I took my wife back to a Baptist church.


61 posted on 06/03/2013 1:38:12 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: silverleaf
At least it was against doctrine and not part of it like in a lot of the protestant churches

Define and prove "a lot".
62 posted on 06/03/2013 1:38:16 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Kevmo
Well 1. I am considerbly better looking. 2. He has been accused of many of the same things his father was accused of the and they both have lost their stewardship and been forced to look elsewhere for a new pulpit and victims. I don't want to have anything to do with that family.
63 posted on 06/03/2013 1:41:06 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: fwdude

Why not just use all the same materials and denote as “not sanction” by the BSA.


64 posted on 06/03/2013 1:43:45 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Prole

With congregational autonomy so fundamental to Baptists, it’s hard to imagine them doing anything “en masse.”


65 posted on 06/03/2013 1:46:56 PM PDT by cookcounty (IRS = Internal Revenge Service.)
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To: Vendome

Well, maybe you should kick his ass again... hah hah.


66 posted on 06/03/2013 1:47:41 PM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Albion Wilde

FYI ping to you.


67 posted on 06/03/2013 1:49:12 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: taxcontrol

Have you tried Royal Rangers? They are christian sponsored groups who focus on survival skills.


68 posted on 06/03/2013 1:51:49 PM PDT by formosa
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To: fwdude

I expect the BSA to implode - soon!
***They are in the MIDdle of imploding. If a core group of leaders who refuse to morally compromise would start a new group, that would be the real coup de grace.


69 posted on 06/03/2013 1:52:32 PM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Prole

Related...

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2013/05/300-boy-scout-families-lose-sponsor.html


70 posted on 06/03/2013 1:57:11 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Kevmo

The churches these men belonged to are just as responsible in mu opinion.

The authorities should have been involved some instances and in others the leadership of Independent Baptist should have been informed so they could investigate and maybe take away their ability to continue. Preying on the flock.

They are wolves over


71 posted on 06/03/2013 1:58:50 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: taxcontrol
The AWANAs programs that I have seen locally seem to never go camping, fishing, hunting etc. It’s all about Sunday school and it seems to be targeted to younger kids.

Check out Royal Rangers and its associated group, Frontier Camping Fellowship. RR is somewhat similar to Scouts, but with a more explicitly Christian mission. FCF is also explicitly Christian, but is more camping focused than RR, and particularly focused on "primitive" camping - they learn to build tepees, how to cook in dutch ovens on campfires, hunting (including black powder rifles and archery), etc.

72 posted on 06/03/2013 2:10:06 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Prole

What would happen if the Southern Baptists and many other sponsoring organizations merely passed resolutions stating their troops refused to comply with the pro-gay BSA resolution.


73 posted on 06/03/2013 2:10:36 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Prole
Royal Ambassadors to Replace Boy Scouts If Policy Change on Gay Leaders?


74 posted on 06/03/2013 2:12:48 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: silverleaf
the majority if Christian churches fully support homosexuality and gay marriage, many have homosexual clergy and youth workers, and some even living with their partners

Wrong! Some "mainline" Protestant churches have become apostate and have accepted sin in their ranks - see Episcopal, ELCA, PCA, United Methodist, et al. But those denominations do not make up the "majority" of Christian churches.

1. Southern Baptist Convention: 16.2 million members
2. The United Methodist Church: 7.8 million members
3. The Church of God in Christ: 5.5 million members
4. National Baptist Convention: 5.0 million members
5. Evangelical Lutheran Church, U.S.A.: 4.5 million members
6. National Baptist Convention of America: 3.5 million members
7. Assemblies of God: 2.9 million members
8. Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.): 2.8 million members
9. African Methodist Episcopal Church: 2.5 million members
10. National Missionary Baptist Convention of America: 2.5 million members
11. The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS): 2.3 million members
12. The Episcopal Church: 2.0 million members
13. Churches of Christ: 1.6 million members
14. Pentecostal Assemblies of the World: 1.5 million members
15. The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church: 1.4 million members

And the "mainline" denominations that have embraced homosexuality have been declining in membership, while those that hold to the Scriptural standards on issues of sexuality have been growing. There has been a big growth in "non-denominational" evangelical churches.

75 posted on 06/03/2013 2:23:05 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: CA Conservative

” There has been a big growth in “non-denominational” evangelical churches. “

I’m in one. They are indeed growing.


76 posted on 06/03/2013 2:31:19 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: elpadre
73 What would happen if the Southern Baptists and many other sponsoring organizations merely passed resolutions stating their troops refused to comply with the pro-gay BSA resolution.

Unlike what didn't happen to the scouters/scouters in Salt Lake City yesterday who marched in the gay pride parade in their BSA uniforms (nothing), any charter institution, e.g., church, that blatantly snubs the rules can have its charter revoked by the local council. There will always be progressive activists out looking to make a "federal" case on any BSA unit that flounts the rules. Why would you want to stay in such an organization? Your annual registration fee, uniform and literature expenses all go to "feeding the beast."

77 posted on 06/03/2013 2:33:37 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: Prole

The Catholic Church should not precipitously sever connection with the Boy Scouts but should be expeditiously building a Catholic Scouts or becoming part of a larger Christian Scouts organization. If that great organization has decided to cut its own throat there is no reason Catholic, at least, boys have to get the blood on their own uniforms.


78 posted on 06/03/2013 2:36:09 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: Prole

It’s shameful that the BSA caved. It would have been a far better outcome that they demonstrated their conviction to their principles (as they teach their young men) rather than follow the money.


79 posted on 06/03/2013 2:37:26 PM PDT by O6ret
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Maybe the poobahs in the organization got tired of the hassle and just decided to fold without looking like quitters. Instead of actually killing it they create conditions such that it will die of asphyxiation.


80 posted on 06/03/2013 2:37:58 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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