So we won't see you in your flowered moomoo tent down at Red Lobster with
the lobster night coupons anymore?
In article <q1s3r8pe3ten62hvmt1cekko8oo63cliqo@4ax.com>,
James <1rilu2@windstream.net> wrote:
"BSA=Bum Sliders Anonymous" <fags@destroy.com>
As well the churches should. Kick the BSA out. The BSA
representatives ignored an opposition ratio of 2:1 against
permitting faggot scouts. Those BSA representatives should be
publicly listed as enemies of the people.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/churches-move-to-
cut-ties-to-scouts-after-gay-policy-change/2013/06/03/52fc122a-
cc96-11e2-8573-3baeea6a2647_singlePage.html?tid=obnetwork
For the Rev. Ernest Easley, the decision to cut ties with the
Boy Scouts was simple.
The Bible says homosexuality is a sin. The Boy Scouts do not.
“We are not willing to compromise God’s word,” said Easley,
pastor of the 2,300-member Roswell Street Baptist Church in
Marietta, Ga., which has sponsored Boy Scout Troop 204 since
1945.
Easley, chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s executive
committee, said his church will shut down its troop at end of
the year because of a recently adopted policy to allow openly
gay scouts. He’s urging other Baptists to do the same.
Roswell Street is one of the first churches to cut ties with the
Scouts over the new policy. Southeast Christian Church in
Louisville, a 23,000-member megachurch, has also announced plans
to shut down its troop. Other critics of the new policy, which
doesn’t take effect until January 2014, are taking a wait-and-
see approach.
The Southern Baptist Convention, whose 3,981 Scout troops make
it the BSA’s sixth-largest religious sponsor, plans to address
the issue at its annual meeting in Houston, June 11-12. About 70
percent of Scout troops are chartered by a faith-based group.
Deron Smith, a spokesman for the Boy Scouts, said the
organization will help troops that have lost their church
sponsors to find new homes. He said the new policy fits the
beliefs of most religious groups that sponsor troops.
“This policy reaffirms that doing one’s ‘duty to God’ is
absolutely explicit and one of the fundamental principles of
Scouting and states that sexual conduct by any Scout,
heterosexual or homosexual, is contrary to the virtues of
Scouting,” he said in an e-mail.
The Scouts’ two largest religious sponsors, the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints and the United Methodist Church,
both said they intend to remain involved in sponsoring Scout
troops.
Kent Barnett, executive director of the Abilene, Texas-based
Members of the Churches of Christ for Scouting, says he wishes
the Boy Scouts hadn’t changed their policy, but said churches
should “not take their ball and go home.”
He said his troop, which is sponsored by Abilene Christian
School, will continue its programs. “These Boy Scouts still need
godly men and women,” he said.
At least one denomination hopes the new policy will lead to more
Boy Scouts in its churches. The Rev. Mike Schuenemeyer is
executive for health and wholeness advocacy for the United
Church of Christ, which sponsors 1,191 scout troops. He said the
church has downplayed that relationship in the past because of
the BSA’s previous ban on gay Scouts but now wants to expand.
Cutting ties with the Boy Scouts makes no sense, he said,
because it tells gay Scouts they should be shunned. “It sends a
terrible message to youth of any sexual orientation,”
Schuenemeyer said.
Roman Catholic leaders have had a mixed response to the new Boy
Scout policy.
Bishop David Choby of the Catholic Diocese of Nashville said
there’s no conflict between the Boy Scout policy and Catholic
teaching. He said that although gay Scouts are allowed, sexual
behavior of any kind is not allowed.
“The policy in its form is not inconsistent with church
teaching, which upholds the dignity of each and every human
being, regardless of sexual orientation,” he said. “It does not
communicate in any way an approval or support for sexual
activity between scouts.”
Bishop Paul Loverde of Arlington, Va., was more critical.
“I deeply regret that the leadership of the Boy Scouts of
America, after years of principled and steadfast resolve, has
now wavered in their commitment to the values that the Scouting
movement has traditionally embraced and taught,” he said in a
statement to the Catholic Herald, the diocese’s newspaper.
Genuine Christians know where they stand on homosexuality. Since the
Bible is "inspired of God" (2 Ti 3:16), they must go by God's
commands. Ro 1:26,27,
And yet the same Christians who condemn homosexuality based on Leviticus
eat shellfish and wear clothes of mixed fabrics.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Christians.
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