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Boy Scouts rule change could bankrupt iconic group
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] With just three weeks before the Boy Scouts consider opening membership to homosexual boys, a new threat to the organization is being raised by the proposed rule change: It could go broke.I think I keyed in on this about thirty seconds after the incident came up first, several long years ago. Critics say the rule change could financially starve the 103-year-old Texas-based group in two ways: Church-based troops, which comprise the majority of Boy Scout units, are threatening to leave, Good idea. Make them all church-based. Call them "Pathfinders" or something, and to back to teaching them to make campfires and tie knots and hike. and the potential for sexual harassment and bullying could lead to massive legal fees. Doh! If the potential's there a suit's gonna follow, as sure as night follows day. What's more, even liberal groups are raising concerns that the rule doesn't also allow gay adults to join or be Scoutmasters, meaning that a gay Eagle Scout would be forced out when he turns 18. How very sad. One of the leading opposition groups, OnMyHonor.net, is circulating a 10-point legal analysis to the delegates expecting to vote on the Boy Scouts of America resolution change. In addition to raising the financial and age issues, the group suggested that the new rule could allow transgendered girls into the all-male club, a potentially explosive new change. If a girl who thinks she's a boy engages in sexual exploration on an overnight hiking trip with a boy who's convinced he's a boy is it homosexual activity? What if the boy thinks he's a girl? Would that make it some kind of counterintuitive heterosexual activity? By this point, I'm ready to go back to church and let the Pope figure it out. "The effect of the phrase 'sexual preference' in the BSA resolution could be used by LGBT activists to push for transgendered girls in the BSA. If a biological girl 'prefers' acting out as a transgendered boy, she must also be allowed into any Boy Scout troop," according to the analysis provided to Secrets. Conversely, shouldn't boys who think they're girls be allowed to join the Girl Scouts and sell cookies? "Because the vague and undefined phrase 'sexual preference' is used in the resolution, it opens the door and requires Scout units to accept any sexual preference expressed." If the Boy Who Loved Chickens applies for membership, you can't keep him out. Same with the kid who likes wearing nothing but a domino mask and being publicly flogged. OnMyHonor and other groups including the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, the American Family Association, and Focus on the Family are urging the 1,400 delegates of the BSA National Council to reject the rule change at the upcoming May 22-25 convention. OnMyHonor is holding a Sunday night simulcast to plot a strategy to fight the pro-homosexual rule. I've said it before and I'll say it again: at that age sex shouldn't exist for them. They'll learn more than enough hanging around street corners. And in school. Posted by: Fred 2013-05-02 |
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