Boy Scouts to end ban on openly gay men being troop leaders

This is from Matt Barber writing for The Stream.

Excerpt:

On Thursday BSA President Robert Gates announced that the BSA will soon invite men who have sex with males (MSM) to become troop leaders. “The status quo in our movement’s membership standards cannot be sustained,” Gates disingenuously claimed, indicating that to maintain the BSA’s century-old proscription on “out” homosexual men would spell “the end of us as a national movement.”

This, of course, is hyperbolic nonsense and simply reflects a continuation of Gates’ long-standing pro-homosexual activism. While serving as secretary of defense he both advocated for and oversaw the implementation of the full repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy. This has resulted in rampant anti-Christian discrimination and an explosion (a 33 percent spike) in male-on-male homosexual assaults. Does any honest, sane, thinking person imagine that a comparable increase in homosexual assault will not befall the Boy Scouts?

[…]Parents, the BSA is about to place political correctness above your child’s safety. This is not an opinion. It’s an empirical, quantifiable certainty.

Consider, for instance, a study published in the left-leaning Archives of Sexual Behavior, of over 200 convicted pedophiles. It found that “86 percent of offenders against males described themselves as homosexual or bisexual.” This demonstrates, observes Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council: “Since almost 30 percent of child sexual abuse is committed by homosexual or bisexual men (one-third male-on-male abuse times 86 percent identifying as homosexual or bisexual), but less than 3 percent of American men identify themselves as homosexual or bisexual, we can infer that homosexual or bisexual men are approximately 10 times more likely to molest children than heterosexual men.”

This makes perfect sense when coupled with another 2001 study in the same peer-reviewed publication. It found that nearly half of all “gay”-identified men who participated in research were molested by a homosexual pedophile as boys: “46 percent of homosexual men and 22 percent of homosexual women reported having been molested by a person of the same gender. This contrasts to only 7 percent of heterosexual men and 1 percent of heterosexual women reporting having been molested by a person of the same gender.”

The connection between homosexual abuse and “gay identity” is undeniable. Although clearly not all “gay”-identified men and women abuse children, or were abused as children, the reality is that an alarmingly high percentage of them do and were. As with most forms of abuse, the cycle is both circular and vicious.

If I ever have boys, I certainly will not enroll them in the Boy Scouts. And I am sorry for the children who will suffer as a result of this decision that puts little children at risk.

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4 thoughts on “Boy Scouts to end ban on openly gay men being troop leaders”

  1. I am a proud Cubmaster of a pack of over forty young boys. I started with three just over four years ago. (ages 6-11)

    The Pack I lead has not had a ‘Cub Scout’ program in it’s neighborhood since the late 1970’s (downtown, urban core of Fresno, CA).

    My deep Scout heart is hurt.

    I serve Christ first, and sadly when this “policy” (even though it’s not a policy…its more of a diktat) goes into effect, I will take off my uniform and step-down.

    How will I explain this to all my young Cubs? Something that should not have to be explained to boys at this age.

    So very sad about this…………….

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  2. This is very disappointing but I saw it coming with the inclusion of “gay” scouts. The writing was on the wall. I thought it would have taken at least a couple years to get to this point but apparently the decline of what used to be good institutions is accelerating.

    I was a scout, order of the arrow, a chaplain scout, the whole thing. And very much enjoyed it. I think a program like the scouts would be very beneficial for young boys especially in this day and age, but I’m done with the scouts. They are no longer in placating-mode just trying to keep the media and leftist activists off their backs, they are in activist-mode. They fully drank the SJW leftist kool-aid, and are doomed. I predict massively declining membership in the coming years. Along with the accompining headlines: “Where have the Scouts gone?”

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  3. As someone who became an Eagle Scout only a few years ago, I can honestly say that almost all the scouts I know agreed with the “don’t ask, don’t tell policy.” It had nothing to do with an animus against gays. It just made since not to allow openly gay scouts who paraded their homosexuality to share tents with straight scouts. Liberals openly deny reality.

    Sadly I think that the West is more or less doomed. The Gay Lobby has the undying support of Corporate America, the media, and Hollywood. Homosexuals will single-handedly usher in a thousand years of spiritual darkness and moral anarchy

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