I wrote
rather extensively about it in previous blog postings [April 15, 2013; June 5,
2013; June 7, 2013; July 12, 2013; April 11, 2014]. Like many others, I warned of what would
become of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) when they welcomed into its ranks
“open and avowed” homosexuality … thus disavowing the “morally straight” Scout
Oath its members had previously sworn to uphold. I went on to say it would only be a matter of
time before openly gay/lesbian adult Scout leaders would force the BSA to capitulate
to sexual extremists’ political demands and allow homosexual adults to take
boys on overnight camping trips. Well,
it’s happening.
Just
the other week, BSA President Robert Gates announced that the organization’s
unconditional surrender is forthcoming and that the BSA will soon invite men
who have sex with males to become troop leaders. “The status quo in our movement’s membership
standards cannot be sustained,” Gates claimed … indicating that to maintain the
BSA’s existing prohibition of homosexual men would spell “the end of us as a
national movement.”
This,
of course, is hyperbolic nonsense!
Remember: This comes from the same Gates who while serving as Secretary
of Defense both advocated for and oversaw the implementation of the full repeal
of the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy … permitting gay military
personnel to ‘openly’ practice their perversion – resulting in rampant
anti-Christian discrimination and an explosive 33% spike in male-on-male
homosexual assaults. What’s to say that
such homosexual assaults will not befall the BSA?!
In
an interview with WND, Dr. Michael Brown
(author of such books as, “Can You Be Gay and Christian?” and the upcoming
“Outlasting the Gay Revolution: Where Homosexual Activism Is Really Going and
How to Turn the Tide”) said that he “believes if the Boy Scouts accept openly
homosexual leaders, they will cease to be a positive moral force in the lives
of American boys.” Brown goes on to say,
“This opens the door for sexual predators, a real danger, and it opens the door
for gay boys to be flirting with straight boys under the auspices of the Boy
Scouts.”
The
BSA has already been plagued by a long history of man-on-boy homosexual
assaults perpetrated by closeted Scout leaders … costing them millions of
dollars in lawsuits. Now, the BSA is
about to place political correctness above a child’s safety to a level
unprecedented in its once-honorable history.
Listen:
This is not an opinion; it’s an empirical, quantifiable certainty. A study published in the left-leaning Archives of Sexual Behavior … of over 200
convicted pedophiles … it found that “86% of offenders against males described
themselves as homosexual or bisexual.” This
demonstrates, as observes Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council, “Since almost 30% of child sexual abuse is
committed by homosexual or bisexual men (one-third male-on-male abuse times 86%
identifying as homosexual or bisexual), but less than 3% 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.” 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% of homosexual men and 22% of homosexual
women reported having been molested by a person of the same gender. This contrasts to only 7% of heterosexual men
and 1% 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 verifiable reality is
an alarmingly high percentage of them do and were. As with most forms of abuse, the cycle is both
circular and vicious. “Born that way?” …
not so much. “Made that way?” … sadly, it appears so.
Yet
the BSA will not let facts get in the way. “We must deal with the world as it is, not as
we might wish it to be,” Gates said last week.
The fact is: This is not the world as it is; rather this is a world of
the secular humanist’s making.
It’s
not profound on my part to say that the BSA will soon open its ranks to
sexually confused girls … just as the Girl Scouts of America (GSA) similarly
announced last month that it will allow boys pretending to be girls to join its
ranks.
Parents
and grandparents: You’ve been warned. If
you leave your children or grandchildren in the BSA or GSA, anything might
happen. Are you willing to risk that? If not, become an adult volunteer (yourself)
to better insure their protection or enroll them in the alternative.
The
alternative – Trail Life USA – is the Christian boy scout program that has
grown out of the misguided direction of the BSA. Trail Life’s membership standards state
without equivocation – “The basis for the program’s ethical and moral standards
are found in the Bible. In terms of
sexual identification and behavior, we affirm that any sexual activity outside
the context of the covenant of marriage between one man and one woman is sinful
before God and therefore inconsistent with the values and principles of the
program. Within these limits, we grant
membership to adults and youth who do not engage in or promote sexual
immorality of any kind, or engage in behavior that would become a distraction
to the mission of the program.” Trail
Life’s chairman, John Stemberger, says his organization is “saddened” by Gates’
announcement. “It is tragic that the BSA
is willing to risk the safety and security of its boys because of peer pressure
from activists groups,” he said. “Trail
Life USA remains committed to timeless Christian values.”
Even
as an Eagle Scout, I must say – I’m immensely saddened that the once ‘youth
protection’ programs of the BSA have been replaced by ‘political correctness’ …
which can only lead to child-endangerment and extremist sexual activism.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
