“It’s America scouting for boys.”
Or, Buggers Scouting for Adolescents.
The September report posted by the Huffington Post was published in collaboration with The American Independent. It called out Intel, UPS, United Way, Merck and others for contributing to an organization with a stated policy of banning homosexuals from membership.
The report came less than two months after the BSA affirmed its policy at the conclusion of a two-year examination of the issue by a committee of volunteers convened by national BSA leaders.
Along with UPS, Intel cut off its funding to the Scouts after the report. In December, Merck issued a statement saying it could not “continue to provide support to an organization with a policy that is contrary to one of our core beliefs.”
“We remain ready and willing to re-consider our funding position in the event that the BSA were to revise its policy,” the statement said.
The American Interest report said 23 of the top 50 corporate foundations, ranked by the Foundation Center in terms of total charitable giving, gave at least $10,000 each to the Boy Scouts in 2010.
Combined, they donated about $3.6 million.
Meanwhile, two prominent board members – including an adviser to the Obama White House – have stated their intent to change the policy, Randall Stephenson of AT&T, who is next in line to become BSA national chairman, and James Turley of Ernst & Young.
Last June, Turley vowed he “will work from within to seek a change” to the BSA policy.
“As I have done in leading Ernst & Young to being a most inclusive organization, I intend to continue to work from within the BSA board to actively encourage dialogue and sustainable progress,” Turley said.
Stephenson has been praised for publicly opposing the Boy Scouts’ policy and explained he would remain on the board, which he’s in line to lead in 2014, because he could have more influence.
Turley was nominated to President Obama’s Export Council in 2010, and has been a promoter of Obama’s economic policy.
Turley and his wife, Lynne, were guests at a state dinner hosted by President Obama for British Prime Minister David Cameron at the White House last March.
Battle stations
As with previous U.S. presidents going back to President William Howard Taft in 1910, Obama became the honorary president of the BSA shortly after taking office in 2009.
In a Super Bowl pre-game interview Sunday with CBS’s Scott Pelley, Obama affirmed the Boy Scouts should be open to “gays.”
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Stop the world, I want to get off. Our culture is in free fall, and the rest of the at least Western world is the same. “Morally straight” will be criminal hate speech ere long.
God, most certainly, through the Apostle Paul, reminds us that we are not to be in communion with the devil:
1 Corinthians 10:[16] The chalice of benediction, which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread, which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord? [17] For we, being many, are one bread, one body, all that partake of one bread. [18] Behold Israel according to the flesh: are not they, that eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar? [19] What then? Do I say, that what is offered in sacrifice to idols, is any thing? Or, that the idol is any thing? [20] But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils. [21] You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord, and the chalice of devils: you cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of devils.
Best cure withdraw your kids, and stop supporting them, they can’t function with out cash.
When certain churches did this all the conservatives up and left, taking their money with them.
RUN do not WALK out the door and tell them why!
I am a Scoutmaster. Our meeting was last night 5/23. I tended my resignation effective 12/31/2013, or sooner if the Troop Committee sees fit. Several Scouts including my two sons, one 6 months from Eagle and the other about 1 year away from Eagle, also said that they are leaving on that date. Several other Scouts will follow. This is a heart breaking day.
With this policy a Scout must choose between being true to the Scout Oath and Law as they are intended, or remain in Scouting. We choose the Oath and Law.
Soon to be former Scoutmaster
Troop 603
These folks should add a new Homophile catagory, they’ll make a killing.
next will come the “parental” meet and greets where parents will be forced to socialize with homosexuals with deviant/sick children.
The dollars just dried up. The sound you hear is wallets closing.
The sound you hear is parents who have no desire for their children to be exposed to the inevitable abuse risk.
Boys’ Life (Boy Scouts of America’s magazine) used to publish Bible stories (in comic-book format) from the first five books of the Bible.
Knowing what those books have to say about homosexual practices, I wonder if those excerpts will still be published.
(I haven’t seen a copy of Boys’ Life for a while, so I don’t know.)
Bookmarked for future reference.
I suspect you’re not going to see a expulsion but rather groups leaving, much like what is happening in many of the Protestant churches with the conservative leaving and starting their own denominations. Many of the liberal churches are realizing they are only a small minority which cannot be sustained. In the end you’re going to have a shell of what was the Boys Scouts of America.