BSA Gives New Meaning to “Be Prepared”

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