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Why the BSA Must Reconsider the Adult Leader Standards
Boy Scouts of America - National Office ^ | 7/08/2015 | BSA Natioanl Executive Committee

Posted on 07/14/2015 1:01:05 PM PDT by MacNaughton

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As others have noted in the past, Scouts Canada (the scouting association in Canada) went down this road in the 1990s. It is now a shell of its former self.
1 posted on 07/14/2015 1:01:05 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: MacNaughton

Bake the cake! Dammit.


2 posted on 07/14/2015 1:03:00 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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3 posted on 07/14/2015 1:04:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: MacNaughton

BOHICA.

Literally.


4 posted on 07/14/2015 1:10:04 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: MacNaughton

My boys will not be Boy Scouts. Nor will my girls ever be Lesbian Scouts.


5 posted on 07/14/2015 1:11:00 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: MacNaughton
What crap.

The only honorable thing for the BSA to do is disband.

Better that boys are redirected to wholesome church-based youth groups than let them mingle with perverts.

6 posted on 07/14/2015 1:13:50 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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What will happen when the first boy scout is sexually assaulted by a known homosexual leader? Will the BSA be immune from prosecution because they decided their current standards for leadership won’t survive legal challenge? I don’t think so. Remember the Catholic Church’s trouble.
I think the BSA is going to have to fold its tent sooner or later. Be better to do it now and save a bunch of kids from assault.


7 posted on 07/14/2015 1:20:04 PM PDT by Old North State
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“My boys will not be Boy Scouts. Nor will my girls ever be Lesbian Scouts.”

GOOD FOR YOU.

My prayers go with all parents who forbid their children from entering a sex oriented group.


8 posted on 07/14/2015 1:21:24 PM PDT by kitkat
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To: MacNaughton; onyx; JustAmy; trisham; DJ MacWoW; RedMDer; musicman; Lady Jag; TheOldLady; ...
"The existing BSA national policy that prohibits gay adults from serving as leaders is no longer legally defensible."

B/S!

Someone please post a list of all the states that voted same sex marriage into law. Until the states do this, it's still ILLEGAL!!

It's not an enumerated power for the feds. They have no say in the matter per the U.S. Constitution!!

9 posted on 07/14/2015 1:21:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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The Boy Sodomites of America are finished with my family. All gone! Same thing with their lesbian sisters . . .


10 posted on 07/14/2015 1:22:53 PM PDT by laweeks
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BSA claims that its new policy protects churches, but all it does is just transfer the risk of lawsuit from the BSA to the church if it doesn’t allow a homoesexual to be a leader. The church will then get sued for discrimination.

Very short-sighted. The churches that didn’t already terminate their relationship with BSA are going to have to do it now.


11 posted on 07/14/2015 1:24:31 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Someone please post a list of all the states that voted same sex marriage into law.

Pretty sure it was 37 that didn't.

Texas didn't and that was all the much I need to know.. sorry. ;-)

12 posted on 07/14/2015 1:25:53 PM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: MeganC

We were lucky in that our son earned his Eagle Rank back in 2010. We did pull our daughter out of “Girl” scouts a long time ago. She agreed with our reasoning. After the scouts allowed gay boys, I figured the next step would be gay leaders. I resigned from my leadership position in our local troop and sent a letter to the BSA HQ with my reasons for resigning. Didn’t get an answer and didn’t expect to.


13 posted on 07/14/2015 1:29:46 PM PDT by Texas resident (The democrat party is the CPUSA)
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To: kaehurowing
Endorsed by the Boy Scouts of America:


14 posted on 07/14/2015 1:30:20 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: MacNaughton

Traillife USA


15 posted on 07/14/2015 1:30:35 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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“Let there be no doubt, the BSA will steadfastly defend the right of religious chartered organizations to select leaders whose beliefs are consistent with those of the religious organization.”

Yeah, right. How long before you break this promise too?


16 posted on 07/14/2015 1:30:50 PM PDT by lowbridge
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“and the right of religious chartered organizations to select their leaders is unwavering...”

Unwavering for how long?


17 posted on 07/14/2015 1:31:40 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Promise breakers think new promises mean something.


18 posted on 07/14/2015 1:33:00 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: MacNaughton

So you now ask the troop leader if he is a homosexual before you let your son join.


19 posted on 07/14/2015 1:33:03 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (INTOLERANCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!!!)
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To: lowbridge

About six weeks. I think they made a deal with the LDS people to keep it in place that long.


20 posted on 07/14/2015 1:33:17 PM PDT by madprof98
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