J-man said:
lotstodo said:
Certainly every sponsor has the right to end their sponsorship for whatever reason they choose. But I would like to see them to do this: I would like every adult who made the decision to drop these boys to have to look each one of them individually in the eye. I want them to explain to them that they can't teach them the qualities that make them a good citizen and a good man. They can't learn the qualities of leadership, cooperation and understanding while enjoying nature and having fun. They won't be given the experiences of a young boy's life. Tell them that they cannot be given these gifts, because if they were given these gifts, the boy down the street who is different would have be given the same gifts.
So go ahead and exercise your rights. Just understand that the Christian boy whose heart you are breaking, the boy you are looking at, will be the one punished by that decision, not the Godless homosexuals.
With that, I will leave this discussion to people who seem for the most part, IMO, to be far more concerned with their own motives than the lives of the boys that Scouting is supposed to serve. Peace Out.
Do you mean like when the BSA corporate leaders looked those same kids in the eyes and explained to them why this issue was so important that they were willing to risk the future of the organization on it. Yeah, I'm sure that happened. I think it's interesting that we've had a 10 page discussion on it with opinions for both sides of the issue. Bottom line is that the BSA drew a line in the sand, now let's see how many cross it. IMO the BSA failed to consider is that today there are many other organizations, groups, and events where kids can learn leadership and have just as much fun doing it. Not so when BSA was first chartered, it's no longer a one trick pony show. Why would a parent want to expose their young child to an organization undergoing division over such an adult topic when they can choose another organization as a legitimate option. Why would a conservative adult leader want to be part of the issue when they can volunteer elsewhere. I think this will mark the beginning of the downfall of the scouts which is truly sad. Not that it will be immediate, but only the beginning, and in my opinion rightly so. This issue should have never grew legs but it's yet another example of the liberal left pushing their agenda into the mainstream, at any cost. Now we question or demonize those who want to make their stance against it, but that's the new American way.
This was never about equal access to the scouts, just as gay marriage was never about marriage. Plain and simple this is a conspiracy to undermine an destroy such godly institutions as marriage and the scouts.
The problems we are facing today with the moral decline of our society are not our politics. The politics are merely a symptom of the greater spiritual problem facing this country which has largely abandoned God.
Ephesians 6:12
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.