Boy Scouts Reconsidering Excluding Sodomites
[Boy Scouts
reconsidering policy against gay membership by Ashley Fantz CN] "The Boy Scouts
of America is considering changing its longstanding policy against allowing
openly gay members, according to a news release from the organization.
The organization, which has 2.7 million members, is "potentially discussing"
doing away with its national policy after months of protest, including hundreds
of angry Eagle Scouts renouncing their hard-earned awards and mailing back their
red-white-and-blue medals.
Many parents of Scouts across America found the national policy excluding gays
confusing -- and at odds with basic scouting ideals..." Full text:
Boy Scouts reconsidering policy against gay membership
Homosexuality is: forbidden (Lev. 18:22), considered an abomination (1 Kin.
14:24), punishment for (Lev. 20:13), unclean (Rom. 1:24, 26, 27).
Hope you're right.
Response to comment [from a "Christian"]: [Term Sodomite] "So, I don't see anything that says homosexual in that definition."
[What God Thinks of Homosexuals by John MacArthur] "Male homosexuals, sodomites, and, by the way, if I use the term sodomite a lot and sodomy a lot, it's because I feel that's the best term to define this. The worst term is gay. Gay is a term that was invented in order to take the stigma away from this particular thing and to make it seem rather frivolous and fun and light and so forth. And homosexual is a little too clinical, but Sodom is the Biblical term. Sodomy is a term used biblically to define it, and a sodomite, not only speaks of the sin itself and the activity itself, but implicit in it is something of God's attitude toward it. So that's probably the best term to use, although it may not be the most popular with people who are involved in this kind of sin." Full text: What God Thinks of Homosexuals
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Were you a boy scout aCW?"
Does his
participation or lack thereof in the organization change the truth of scripture?
Eccl 10:2,
Jn 10:10
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Response to comment [from a Christian]: "You just keep trying don't you Judy?"
Got your back. Rom. 12:5; 1 Cor. 12:1; 1 Thess. 5:17, 18
Response to comment [from a "Christian"]: "...[T]hat's not what the Bible says the sin of Sodom was..."
See:
What was the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah? Why did God judge the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah so severely?
What the Bible Teaches About Homosexuality
Response to comment [from a Messianic Jew]: "...If this goes, I know one family that will be withdrawing all support to the BSA just like we did with the GSA!"
Response to comment [from a Christian]: ""[Y]es, homosexuality is sinful..."
Lev 18:22, 20:13, 1 Ki 14:24, Ro 1:24, 26, 27
"...[H]owever you protest too much!"
Ad hominem
Response to comment [from other]: "Agreed, that is the Christian viewpoint. But..."
"...But
Monkey."
~ Laura Ingraham
"...[S]hould you exclude these people from the benefits of society?"
Red Herring
"Should they be rejected as people with value?"
Strawman
We value homosexuals.
That's why
we tell them the truth (Ac
20:20).
See:
Our Rainbow
Boy Scouts approve plan to accept sodomites
Homosexuality is: forbidden (Lev.
18:22), considered an abomination (1
Kin. 14:24), punishment for (Lev.
20:13), unclean (Rom.
1:24,
26,
27).
Response to comment [from a Christian]: ""
He deserved that.
Boy Scouts Gone Gay http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_25233358/trail-life-courts-those-who-oppose-boy-scouts
Conservatives Create New God-Honoring Group Eccl 10:2, Jn 10:10 Trail Life USA http://www.traillifeusa.com/
Girl's version: America Heritage Girls http://ahgonline.org/
"I was a Bluebird and a Camp Fire girl. I just started he fire. I didn't put it out." ~ Laura Ingraham (Radio program, 7 Mar 14).
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