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Pastor to gay Scouts: ‘No homosexual will enter the Kingdom of God’
Three more Boy Scout troops are looking for new meeting spaces after the Christian organizations that help support them have ended their relationships over the national organization’s decision to lift its long standing ban on openly gay youth.
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Scouting leaders focused on annual Jamboree, not gay vote
GLEN JEAN, W.Va. — Two months after a vote that accepted openly gay boys as Scouts, officials for the Boy Scouts of America say they’ve put the issue aside and are focused on their 10-day national Jamboree.
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Boy Scout leaders chided for marching in Utah pride parade
SALT LAKE CITY — Two Boy Scout leaders have been reprimanded by the organization for marching with several Scouts in the Utah Pride Parade in Salt Lake City.
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Caterpillar drops support for Boy Scouts over continued ban on gay leaders
PEORIA, Ill. – Caterpillar Inc. says it will no longer give money to the Boy Scouts of America because the organization doesn’t allow homosexuals to serve as adult leaders.
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Southern Baptists officially oppose Boy Scouts’ policy to accept gay youth
HOUSTON — The Southern Baptist Convention approved a resolution Wednesday expressing its opposition to and disappointment in the Boy Scouts of America’s new policy allowing gay Scouts.
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Robertson: Gays will ‘destroy’ Boy Scouts to ‘accommodate kids who want sex with each other’
Pat Robertson says that it “breaks your heart” to see the Boy Scouts “torn up in order to accommodate a few kids who want to do sex with each other. It just boggles the mind.”
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Two more Ky. churches to cut ties with Boy Scouts over gay youth policy
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. — Two more churches in central Kentucky say they are cutting ties with the Boy Scouts of America over the organization’s decision to allow gay youth.
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The Boy Scouts of America and the irreverent churches
And so it begins — the abandonment of the Boy Scouts of America by churches of the Southern Baptist persuasion, for the lifting of the longtime national ban on admitting openly gay Scouts. At the end of the day, who really suffers here? The Southern Baptist Convention? The Assemblies of God? The Southeast Christian Church? No, of course not. These churches will continue to preach their version of the Bible and continue to discriminate and alienate. And they will do it all in the name of their so-called “loving” God.
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Perry says Boy Scouts will answer to God; Gohmert warns of pedophilia
Rick Perry, who has equated the fight against gays in the Boy Scouts to the fight to abolish slavery, told Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council on Friday’s edition of Washington Watch that the Boy Scouts of America’s delegates bowed to “political correctness” and “money” in ending the ban on gay members under the age of 18.
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Calif. Senate OKs change in tax policy targeting Boy Scouts’ ban on gay adults
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California state Senate approved legislation Wednesday that would use the state’s tax policy in an attempt to pressure the Boy Scouts of America into fully accepting gay members.