#3143661 - 01/29/13 10:34 AM
Re: Boy Scouts discussing end to ban on gay members
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Then my family will be discussing end to being involved with Boy Scouts.
I would do the same if I had a boy in the scouts. I hope they cease to exist personally now, after bowing to the lesbo/gay agenda. 
I'm a scout leader and I'm considering leaving. But my son LOVES scouts and I don't want for him to lose something he enjoys this much over politics.
I'm certain there are no gay leaders in our small group. But I'm sure this will effect recruiting new scouts. It's been hard enough to overcome the sex abuse story.
To follow that up with THIS move, it seems the the scouting org and counsel can't get enough bad press these days.
What are they thinking?
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#3143687 - 01/29/13 10:49 AM
Re: Boy Scouts discussing end to ban on gay members
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Call the Boy Scout national council office at 972-580-2000 and urge them to stand firm on the current policy.
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#3143736 - 01/29/13 11:20 AM
Re: Boy Scouts discussing end to ban on gay members
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Perhaps this:
The Scouts exist to benefit all boys. They may realize that there are gay kids out there that need the same direction and opportunity as straight kids. Perhaps they're opening their availability to all kids, to extend the same privelages to develop a new generation of folks that appreciate the outdoors and will produce a sense of responsibility, community involvement, and general guidance many kids these days do not have.
Despite your personal objections to their personal lifestyle, gayness is not going away. These kids will grow up to be peers, bosses, employees, neighbors, customers, and bosses of our kids. Shunning the person and sheltering kids from others doesn't offer any long-term rewards and benefits. In reality, it's helping foster the antagonistic mentality that we are constantly and growingly bombarded by. So would you rather create an adversary, or help develop an impressionable kid into the responsible citizen you want your own child to become?
I don't condone the lifestyle by any stretch of the imagination, and I certainly sympathize and agree with the concern that someone will become a militant pusher of the gay agenda. But at the same time, gay Scout leaders are parents of straight kids, as are straight leaders parents of gay kids. They're just as likely to molest your kids as you would be to molest your daughter's friends.
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#3143740 - 01/29/13 11:23 AM
Re: Boy Scouts discussing end to ban on gay members
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Besides....the point is that BSA is not forcing anyone to open up to gay members. But in the case of a gay kid that seeks the opportunities Scouting offers, they're allowing indiivdual Troops to decide if it works for them. So when you see a kid swishing down the trails at Philmont, stinky and tired like you, you can cross paths completely assured that your own Troop is just as straight as you are.
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#3143799 - 01/29/13 12:07 PM
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The BSA is also a Private, Christian organization that is responsible for the safety of it's members.
The whole Catholic church problem of pedophile, homosexuals molesting young boys went on for decades. It wasn't a Old man - girl problem. It was an old man - BOY problem.
BSA says "Where can I get me some of THAT?"
How is this different than now allowing straight, adolescent boys go camping with girl scouts?
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#3143825 - 01/29/13 12:22 PM
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When I was in Boy Scouts we never had to worry about a gay leader or anything.
I would be worried putting a son into a troop and leave them alone with the kids if they had a gay leader.
I have a gay step uncle. I wouldn't leave him in a room with my son for 1 min by themselves.
It would just be uneasy for me to leave young boys with a gay person.
Just my opinion.
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#3143836 - 01/29/13 12:29 PM
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In the sense that liberals are turning "crime" problems into "gun problems", you are unfairly associating sexual abuse and pedophillia with homosexuality. Banning gays in the church, BSA, or any other organization has not curbed the cases of abuse.
Again, I'm not condoning the lifestyle by any means. But I'm willing to accept that they live among us, so learning how to live side-by-side is a more pragmatic approach in my eyes than pretending that prohibiting their proximity will do anything.
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#3143837 - 01/29/13 12:30 PM
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Pedophiles are also straight, and thtey molest kids anywhere they feel it's necessary.
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#3143855 - 01/29/13 12:44 PM
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They are straight as well but atleast if they announce they are gay I have a heads up to keep my kids away from them.
They live among us but if I ever find out they are gay or pedophile my kids will stay far away from them.
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