Peter LaBarbera (LifeSiteNews.com) -
May 23, 2013, was a sad day for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), and
another tragic day for an America in decline. The Scouts’
corporate-driven leaders in their folly put sexual morality up for a
vote, and when it was all over, the Scouts as we once knew them – a
God-fearing, wholesome organization – were finished. Now, truly “morally
straight” organizations (to quote the Scout Oath)
will rise up to compete with the corrupted BSA, and parents by the
hundreds of thousands will migrate with their sons to these trustworthy
alternatives.
This was a completely unnecessary capitulation. The equivocating Scouts
somehow managed to snatch defeat from their hard-won victory in the Supreme Court in 2000 –
which preserved the Scouts’ right to live by their own moral creed. Now
they have eviscerated that creed, thus rewarding the very Homosexual
lobby that tormented the BSA since its high court triumph.
Pursuing godliness and virtue is not a democratic exercise but a walk
of obedience. Truth is transcendent; it is not decided by polls or
votes. (Two men or two women will never truly be “married.”) We all fall
short and hence need a Savior,
but absolute Truth never changes. God – not man -- sets the standard
for proper living. Allowing boys who identify with and, presumably,
engage in homosexual behavior is the opposite of virtue -- and certainly
wasn’t a Scouting value in my father’s and grandfather’s America.
Let’s cut through all the pro-“gay” noise that infests most discussions of this issue. Practicing homosexuality is a destructive lifestyle choice and a sin. It is immoral, against nature, and changeable – as evidenced by the countless men (like Michael Glatze) and women (like Charlene Cothran) who once proudly considered themselves “gay” but now live in accordance with God’s natural design for their bodies.
Homosexuality is not the basis for healthy self-identity. “Sexual orientation” is an artificial construct because homosexuality is not “who you are,” it’s what you do. And when people make sinful choices bad things happen. (I should add that most homosexuals come from troubled backgrounds, including: dysfunctional parent-child relationships; lack of a father; divorced households; early sexualization; and sexual predator abuse. But these “causes” – while meriting our pity and understanding -- do not condone the behavioral choice of embracing a homosexual lifestyle.)
Homosexuality is about as natural, normal and healthy as a tongue earring. Actually, it’s much riskier: in fact, if this were any other behavior, there would be a full-scale government/corporate mobilization against it (like smoking). Consider these alarming statistics on male homosexuality and HIV from a December 2012 report by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
“CDC estimates that MSM represent approximately 4 percent of the male population in the United States but male-to-male sex accounted for more than three-quarters (78 percent) of new HIV infections among men and nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of all new infections in 2010 (29,800).
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No honorable organization would confirm boys and young men in an immoral sexual “identity” associated with such disproportionate, massive health risks. Shame on the Boy Scouts, and on their sponsors – most notably, the Mormon and Catholic Churches -- for failing to use their considerable leverage with the BSA to stop this “gay” surrender.
In the end, the Scouts behaved a lot like the America they serve – as if it were all (or mostly) about the money, rather than Truth, Honor, and Integrity.
Let’s cut through all the pro-“gay” noise that infests most discussions of this issue. Practicing homosexuality is a destructive lifestyle choice and a sin. It is immoral, against nature, and changeable – as evidenced by the countless men (like Michael Glatze) and women (like Charlene Cothran) who once proudly considered themselves “gay” but now live in accordance with God’s natural design for their bodies.
Homosexuality is not the basis for healthy self-identity. “Sexual orientation” is an artificial construct because homosexuality is not “who you are,” it’s what you do. And when people make sinful choices bad things happen. (I should add that most homosexuals come from troubled backgrounds, including: dysfunctional parent-child relationships; lack of a father; divorced households; early sexualization; and sexual predator abuse. But these “causes” – while meriting our pity and understanding -- do not condone the behavioral choice of embracing a homosexual lifestyle.)
Homosexuality is about as natural, normal and healthy as a tongue earring. Actually, it’s much riskier: in fact, if this were any other behavior, there would be a full-scale government/corporate mobilization against it (like smoking). Consider these alarming statistics on male homosexuality and HIV from a December 2012 report by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
“CDC estimates that MSM represent approximately 4 percent of the male population in the United States but male-to-male sex accounted for more than three-quarters (78 percent) of new HIV infections among men and nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of all new infections in 2010 (29,800).
”
No honorable organization would confirm boys and young men in an immoral sexual “identity” associated with such disproportionate, massive health risks. Shame on the Boy Scouts, and on their sponsors – most notably, the Mormon and Catholic Churches -- for failing to use their considerable leverage with the BSA to stop this “gay” surrender.
In the end, the Scouts behaved a lot like the America they serve – as if it were all (or mostly) about the money, rather than Truth, Honor, and Integrity.