If you quit, you let them win.
This is what Obama and the secularists want.
They want all of the foundation forming, values building organizations destroyed.
It’s the same tactic being used to drive chaplains from the military.
Will the BSA remove the words “God” and “morally straight” from the oath? Or will they keep them and require “false witness” to be a member?
Time to dust off the ole sandals and move on.
Good. BSA is a private organization that can make its own decisions over who joins. Same for the Baptists and the Catholics.
Praise the Lord!!!
I think that any religious denomination that believes their heavily religious oriented youth programs will replace the Boy Scouts as a popular organization to join will be very disappointed. The RAs and other similar organizations have existed for years and they won't suddenly appeal to youths they didn't appeal to before.
If a real alternative to the BSA is desired, they'd better band together and form a new organization similar to BSA that retains the traditional values of the BSA.
There is a smaller liberal “Baptist” group, I forget its name — something like Baptist Cooperative Federation — that may stick with the liberal Scouts.
Reconstituting it under the Establishment Clause is the only thing that will protect it. Might even force a test of the wildly inverted application of “religious freedom,” the practical reality of which has become state-enforced atheism.
Every Protestant church remaining true to the core faith and moral tenets of Christianity should do it and never fail to police their moral standards, brooking no progressive pushing of boundaries. Apostate denominations can remain apostate with the BSA.
Orthodox and Conservative Jews could do the same under their own specific standard and affiliate more broadly with the Protestant groups under a set of standards agreed upon and applicable to all.
That leaves Catholics, whose church advocates orthodoxy in word, but deed most often veers to the left. There are traditionalists who are orthodox in both word and deed but adherence to the specific institution appears to preclude separating oneself from that specific institution, unlike fundamentalist Protestants and Orthodox Jews.
Not sure how such an idea could be made to work, there.
God bless the Baptists. “Come out from among them”-St. Paul
These churches really need to come up with a new, alternative, organization, which parallels the Boy Scouts, but with the old rules about who can join.
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Maybe they should use the opportunity to persuade the queer scouts to change the error of their ways! It would be funny - if the scouts were to declare that they are accepting gays into scouting so that they can straighten them out before they become adults.
So let’s see....the gays still aren’t happy with the Boy Scouts, and now all of the Conservative organizations are leaving.
Another example of, “Try to please everyone, wind up pleasing no one.”
We had a leadership meeting the other night. Our troop is sticking with it for a bit to see what happens. But, I have a letter prepared that will be sent in the next few days. In the two years of our troops existence, we have risen to be stellar performers in the annual popcorn sale. Our troop even outsold a smaller district in our council. The council receives 33% of our sales. Well, 33% of nothing is... Plus we will not participate in Friends of Scouting and we are tightening up our troop membership policy to require a letter of recommendation from the candidates church. We will not allow open homesexuals in our troop. If they want to override us, we will quit immediately. We’re fighting back.
They exit with principles intact through the front door heads held high while the perverts slip in through the back door.
Don’t go to the comment section. If you’re a Christian, you might feel a little like Jews felt in Germany just before the Nazis came to power. Lots of hatred and even threats of extermination.
Good.
Every single individual who values principle should exit this now-profligate organization. And I AM NOT condemning the guiltless individuals involved in scouting, but the organization as a whole.
But it you remain a supporter, either by finances and service, in this organization going forward, you are a supporter of perversion.
Not to worry - NAMBLA will pick up sponsorship.