"GUN CONTROL" IN THE BOY SCOUTS
FEMINIZES MALES SO THEY WON'T BUY REAL GUNS WHEN THEY GROW UP
Boy Scouts Banning Water Guns & Water Balloons; Calls the Toys "Simulated Firearms"
BRAINWASHING TECHNIQUE TO DESTROY
SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS
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Homosexual Boy Scout Leaders=Preferential Treatment for Homosexuals
by Selwyn Duke
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/20930-homosexual-boy-scout-leaders-preferential-treatment-for-homosexuals; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/20930-homosexual-boy-scout-leaders-preferential-treatment-for-homosexuals; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Fresh off making people’s eyes roll with a ban on water-gun play fights, the Boy Scouts of America has found an even better way to lose members: propose that homosexuals be allowed to serve as Boy Scout troop leaders.
Wow, what could possibly go wrong?
The suggestion came from Boy Scouts of America (BSA) president Robert Gates, a former defense secretary with a history of taking the offense against tradition. As Pentagon chief he effected the elimination of the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, thus allowing homosexuals to openly serve in the military; and placed female officers aboard cramped submarines. Now he’s telling the BSA they must get with the times, saying at the organization’s annual meeting in Atlanta, “We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be.” My, what spirit. Had the Founding Fathers shared it, we’d still be British subjects.
The problem is that “the world as it is” is detached from reality and reason. And here’s reality: What Gates proposes — in the name of equality for homosexuals — amounts to preferential treatment for them. After all, if having homosexuals as Boy Scout troop leaders poses no problems, why not allow normal men to be Girl Scout troop leaders? What’s the difference? Are homosexuals immune to sexual temptation?
By essentially saying they’d trust homosexuals with Boy Scouts but not normal men with Girl Scouts, Gates and his fellow travelers have gone beyond equality — they’re implying that homosexuals are superior to straight men. And by saying they’ll ignore the danger of sexual temptation with homosexuals in the BSA while holding normal men to the traditional standard, they’re effecting a double standard that favors homosexuals.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen such bias, either. When Gene Robinson left his wife and children to be with his homosexual lover, the decision was not only called “brave” by some, but he was rewarded years later by being elected an Episcopalian bishop in 2003. Now, question: If a straight man left his family and violated his marriage vows to be with his mistress, would he be called brave or a dog? Would he be elected bishop or likened to Beelzebub? In both cases the men are attracted to someone else more than to their wives. But in one case it’s called adultery — in the other it’s called liberation.
(By the way, Robinson just can’t help being brave; last year he announced he was “divorcing” his “husband.”)
What’s going on here? Disconnected from Truth and governed by emotion, we now operate not on principles but prejudice. It’s not what you do — it’s what you are. If you’re a white male college professor who renders a politically incorrect analysis of racial differences, your university condemns you and says your remarks have no place in “civil discourse”; if you’re a black female college professor with a criminal record who taunted a white rape victim and made vulgar, bigoted comments, your university defends your right to free speech and proceeds with its plan to retain your services.
So we’d never risk letting straight men take Girl Scouts on camping trips, but homosexuals and Boy Scouts? Hey, if you want to make an omelet of so-called Equality™, you have to break a few eggs. Of course, leftists will say that homosexuality and pedophilia are entirely different phenomena — pedophiles are a distinct group — and that most child molesters are heterosexual. Yet the contradiction invariably goes unnoticed. If pedophiles are a group unto themselves, how can you label any of them “heterosexual”? And if most are the latter, it follows that some of the remainder would be homosexual. Ergo, there are homosexual child molesters.
Yet there’s another factor. Many scouts are in fact adolescents (onset of male puberty occurs on average at age 11). And if it’s not unfathomable that a normal man could find a developing teen girl a temptation, is it radical to assume a homosexual could find teens boys so? Note that history provides many examples of men routinely taking child brides (Islam’s Mohammed comes to mind); likewise, from ancient Athens and Sparta to today’s “chickenhawks,” homosexuality has long been intertwined with pederasty.
Continuing with the double standards, leftists believe homosexuals are being singled out by the BSA. But think about it: An organization has no more way of knowing a person is a homosexual than that he’s an adulterer or fornicator — assuming he keeps his behavior private. And would the BSA accept an “open” adulterer or fornicator, someone who wore his anomalous sexual behavior on his shirtsleeve, as a troop leader? It’s inconceivable. So leftists not only want homosexuals to be able to advertise their sexuality, but also to be free from the consequences any other group would suffer for doing so.
Equality?
Returning to Gates, it’s ironic he was defense secretary as his specialty seems to be waving a white flag. He saidat the BSA meeting that his organization cannot “ignore the social, political and juridical changes taking place in our country.” Perhaps he’d rather live on his knees than die on his feet, but he’s not supposed to ignore them — he’s supposed to fight them. Dealing with “the world as it is” sometimes means rejecting it. Otherwise, we’re simply people who’d accept human sacrifice in medieval Aztec times, slavery in slave times, and gas chambers in Nazi times.
Gates also said that ignoring the homosexual agenda could mean the end of the BSA “as a national movement.” But the BSA has already suffered and lost millions of dollars due to sexual abuse, and I can’t imagine anything that would cause parents to flee the organization more than the prospect of a homosexual scout leader camping with their sons.
Gates warned that we cannot ignore the times and “put our heads in the sand.” Americans ought to tell him — and the homosexual agenda — to go pound sand.
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Gates to Boy Scouts: Prepare to Surrender
by Bob Adelmann
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/20928-gates-to-boy-scouts-prepare-to-surrender; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Scarcely a year after his surprise inauguration as the new president of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), former Pentagon chief Robert Gates told BSA leadership on Thursday to prepare to allow practicing homosexuals into leadership positions or face threats that could divide, splinter, and destroy the organization. He said:
We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be. The status quo in our movement’s membership standards cannot be sustained.
We cannot ignore growing internal challenges to our current membership policy from some councils, nor can we ignore the social, political and judicial changes taking place in our country — changes taking place at a pace over this past year no one anticipated.
Gates added that, despite the Supreme Court decision Boy Scouts of America v. Dale in 2000 that affirmed the Scouts’ freedom to restrict its membership, holding that “a private organization is allowed … to exclude a person from membership through their First American right to freedom of association,” continuing legal and social pressure from the gay lobby could force the Scouts to “forbid any kind of membership standard, including our foundational belief in our duty to God and our focus on serving the specific needs of boys.”
This is the same argument Gates used to justify ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” while he was secretary of defense, and fulfilled a promise he made when he took over BSA in May, 2014 when he commented on the group’s decision a year earlier to allow homosexual boys to join but not homosexual leaders:
In all candor, I would have supported going further, as I did in opening the way for gays to serve in the CIA and in the military. I was prepared to go further than the decision that was made [in 2013]. I would have supported having gay Scoutmasters.
The gay lobby rejoiced in Gates’ announcement but wanted to see more action on allowing homosexual leadership in the Scouts, rather than waiting. Chad Griffin, president of Scouts for Equality and Human Rights Campaign (HRC), made it plain that he and his pro-gay group are tired of waiting for the Scouts to surrender completely to the gay agenda: “It’s time for BSA leaders to show true leadership and embrace a full national policy of inclusion that does not discriminate against anyone because of who they are.”
Back in May 2013, the Scouts voted to change their 105-year-old membership policy that reads that while “we do not grant membership to individuals who are open or avowed homosexuals or who engage in behavior that would become a distraction to the mission of the BSA … no youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone.”
This degradation of standards was enough for BSA leader John Stemberger to start an alternative scouting program reflective of principle rather than expediency. Called Trail Life USA, its Statement of Values includes this:
Purity: God calls us to lives of holiness, being pure of heart, mind, word and deed. We are to reserve sexual activity for the sanctity of marriage, a lifelong commitment before God between a man and a woman.
Trail Life's Statement of Faith reflects its purpose:
We believe there is One Triune God — God the Father; Jesus Christ, His one and only Son; and the Holy Spirit — Creator of the universe and eternally existent. We believe the Holy Scriptures (Old and New Testaments) to be the inspired and authoritative Word of God. We believe each person is created in His image for the purpose of communing with and worshiping God. We believe in the ministry of the Holy Spirit, Who enables us to live godly lives. We believe each of us is called to love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. We believe God calls us to lives of purity, service, stewardship and integrity.
Since its creation in the summer of 2013, Trail Life membership exploded, thanks to disaffected former scouts and their parents looking for a place where truth is honored and upheld, rather than attacked and degraded. At present there are more than 20,000 members in over 500 troops in 48 states, with another 300 troops in the process of becoming officially chartered. Its success is also reflected in the drop in membership of the BSA by more than 200,000 just since the change in membership standards was enacted.
Those seeking to raise up their boys in the truth of the God of the Bible thankfully have a place whose mission is to turn boys into men.
A graduate of an Ivy League school and a former investment advisor, Bob is a regular contributor to The New American magazine and blogs frequently at www.LightFromTheRight.com, primarily on economics and politics. He is also an Eagle Scout.
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