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Boy Scouts’ President Calls for End to Ban on Gay Leaders
New York Times ^ | May 21, 2015 | ERIK ECKHOLM

Posted on 05/21/2015 10:42:22 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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To: Dr. Thorne

As a Trail Life USA troopmaster and former Scoutmaster, I wholeheartedly support the mission of Trail Life USA. Check it out for your sons. If there’s no troop near you, fix that problem and start one.


41 posted on 05/21/2015 11:26:45 AM PDT by cyclotic ( Check out traillifeusa.com. America's premier boys outdoor organization)
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To: reaganaut1

Boy Scouts’ President Calls for End to Ban on Pedophilia.


42 posted on 05/21/2015 11:27:59 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: I want the USA back; windcliff; stylecouncilor

You’re right.

I was once a Scout. Great memories. But I’d not let any son of mine near the BSA these days.


43 posted on 05/21/2015 11:36:25 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: reaganaut1

He promised he wasn’t going to pursue this. But, that’s what you get when you hire a spy.


44 posted on 05/21/2015 11:37:39 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: reaganaut1

So the new, “gay-friendly” Scouting program will need to make wholesale changes to the Boy Scout Oath, which in its present form exemplifies patriotism, faith in God and moral straightness.

Very sad, but we all knew the darkside set out generations ago to make inroads against our children, and they’re now having monumental success. I can see the mission of the Boy and Girl Scouts slowly morphing into an extension of the progressive movement.. one in which their mission and practices will become more aligned with the communist “Young Pioneers.” Fealty to socialism will trump any loyalty to families, the nation or to God. Membership will no longer be optional... it will be mandatory.


45 posted on 05/21/2015 11:38:41 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The election of Obama was a hate crime.)
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To: reaganaut1

Here’s a lesson for every body. YOU DO NOT “COMPROMISE WITH EVIL, IN ANY FORM”. Oh the BSA can make any “RULE” they want, but what happens when no body wants to follow those “RULES”.


46 posted on 05/21/2015 11:38:46 AM PDT by gingerbread
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To: thorvaldr

Ephebophilia.


47 posted on 05/21/2015 11:41:23 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: reaganaut1

Soon to be coming to your neighborhood.

48 posted on 05/21/2015 11:43:00 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: reaganaut1

Okay, let’s hear it from the BSA-defenders-at-all-cost FReepers. They told us this would never happen. Some said they would abandon it if it happened. Well, time to pay up.


49 posted on 05/21/2015 11:43:40 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: reaganaut1

I have two sons several years apart. The first went through cub scouts and about half way through boy scouts before he decided he was over it. My youngest is cub scout age and I would not think of allowing him to join the organization now.


50 posted on 05/21/2015 11:46:34 AM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: reaganaut1
"How did an unhealthy lifestyle attain such political dominance? I don't get it."

There was a woman who was also a very wise and educated Freeper who'd lived near San Francisco. Long ago, she informed some of us that most people are presented with a false impression about homosexuals.

She said that homosexual men are more like the Cruella De Vil character of "101 Dalmations" than the comical representations that we've seen in entertainment. For example, a heterosexual (straight) man might not know why he was fired from his job or who was behind it (Cruella De Vil).

Boys tend to learn to play with things. Girls tend to learn to play with people, good girls doing so with a set of unwritten rules of altruistic conduct. Some homosexual men and feminist women manipulate people with a psychotic lack of consideration for anyone.


51 posted on 05/21/2015 11:47:16 AM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: SZonian
If the BSA moves ahead with this policy,...

If? It's a done deal. All the hand wringing and "discussion" is just theater.

The sodomites don't mention a possible policy change unless they already have their operatives installed to pull the strings.

52 posted on 05/21/2015 11:47:39 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: reaganaut1

Yeah, let’s drop a hungry bull snake into a chick incubator. Makes all the sense in the world ....


53 posted on 05/21/2015 11:49:18 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Pollster1

Thats the practical threat to BSA here.

What happens when a Leader molests a Scout on a camping trip? Statistically it will happen, and only needs to happen once.

BSA will be sued into oblivion. Very publicly sued into oblivion. It’s going to be hard to argue before a jury that enough safeguards were in place to prevent such an occurance.

It’s at that point where, thanks to negative publicity, membership and sponsorship will implode. AND their insurance rates will skyrocket. Assuming they can find insurors willing to provide coverage.


54 posted on 05/21/2015 11:49:32 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: reaganaut1
In 2013, Boy Scout leaders from across the country voted, with more than 60 percent approval, to say that no youth may be denied membership...

I took part in that 2013 survey.

We were also asked how we felt about gay leaders. The response was entirely negative.

Notice that the NYT did not mention that question, nor its response in the article. Biased reporting is bias.

55 posted on 05/21/2015 11:49:40 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: reaganaut1

Bump


56 posted on 05/21/2015 11:49:47 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: reaganaut1

I have a son who’s about to turn five. (Really!)

Should I put him in the Scouts? /s


57 posted on 05/21/2015 11:51:20 AM PDT by WKTimpco
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Girl Scouts don’t allow men to go on camping trips with the girls.”

Theyre about to.

Girl Scouts welcomes transgender girls

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/20/living/girl-scouts-welcomes-transgender-girls-feat/


58 posted on 05/21/2015 11:53:22 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: reaganaut1

How?

Three words:

Will.

And.

Grace.


59 posted on 05/21/2015 11:54:25 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Forgotten Amendments
Is there an organization Gates hasn’t irreparably harmed left?

After Gates left as President of the very conservative Texas A&M University, the Texas institution slid down the sodomy slope pretty quickly, developing "gay" student groups, anal-sex seminars, and even had a separate graduation ceremony for sexual deviants.

60 posted on 05/21/2015 11:54:56 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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