Did the leadership not anticipate a backlash? Did they not care? Stunning!
Response: There is no debate on the issue. That is one of the great issues causing America's decline: "Debate," "Discussion," and "Different points of view." Some things are simply not debateable for to "debate" is to implicitly state that the opposition position has merit, there is something to debate!
Going against your church again, Jeff?
Yes they do.
And, I would suppose, that words of LDS scripture have meaning as well; yet the biggest group of MORMONs, based in Salt Lake City, have decided to ignore them.
More than that; it has decided to EXCOMMUNICATE those that DO follow the words found in Doctrines & Covenants 132:58-66
Elder Bruce R. McConkie explained:“Plural marriage is not essential to salvation or exaltation. Nephi and his people were denied the power to have more than one wife and yet they could gain every blessing in eternity that the Lord ever offered to any people. In our day, the Lord summarized by revelation the whole doctrine of exaltation and predicated it upon the marriage of one man to one woman. (D. & C. 132:1–28.) Thereafter he added the principles relative to plurality of wives with the express stipulation that any such marriages would be valid only if authorized by the President of the Church. (D. & C. 132:7, 29–66.)
(Seems like the Elder has a bit of a conflict with what a Living Prophet® has proclaimed:
"Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned;
and I will go still further and say, take this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord has given,
and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.
Brigham Young - JoD 3:266 (July 14, 1855)
The problem with accepting gay “boys” is that Boy Scouts can be as young as 11 and old as 18. A 17 or 18 year gay “boy” can be a fearsome and imposing authority figure to an 11 or 12 year old.
When the BSA first announced their decision to accept gay boys but not gay men, it seemed somewhat reasonable (even though we all know that the next big “civil rights issue” will be the acceptance of gay scoutmasters.
But, as I thought about my BSA experience, I remembered how those high school boys were idolized by the middle school boys when I first joined scouts. Do we really want our middle school age boys exposed to young gay men, who have the legal immunity of being juveniles and the hormones of adolescence???