Will the Boy Scouts lift their ban on open homosexuals?

Will the Boy Scouts lift their ban on open homosexuals?

The Boy Scouts could take a lesson from the Catholic Church in America. The Church has a clear policy against allowing men who practice homosexual behavior to be ordained but this didn't stop many of these men from becoming priests, especially in places such as the Archdiocese of Boston. The results sadly came to light in 2002.

In the Church abuse scandal, over 80% of the victims were male. Fewer than 5% were pre-pubescent males. In a report released a few years ago by LifeSiteNews, psychiatrist Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons cited these statistics and said that the genesis of the abuse crisis lay in the homosexual tendencies of the priests. (link below)

Indeed, the dangers of allowing openly homosexual men to have such close access to boys and young men was not lost on the Vatican. They reaffirmed the Church's prohibition on gay men in the priesthood in 2005 with their document "Instruction". (link below)

This does not mean that all people who have homosexual tendencies or feelings are evil. It simply means they suffer from a disorder that may make them incompatible with the priesthood, at least until they can overcome it. In any case, the Catholic Church reaches out to gay people and calls them to a life of chastity in order to grow closer to Jesus.

Girls and boys are separated in scouting for obvious reasons. It wouldn't be right for boy scouts (who may be becoming sexually attracted to girl scouts) to be sharing tents with those girl scouts. Even if the boys were perfectly trustworthy and chaste, it could still make the girls uncomfortable or lead to bad situations. It would be asking for trouble. In the same way, it would be asking for trouble to ask boys to share tents with openly homosexual scouts who are attracted to those boys.

No sane parent would want their boy to go on a camping trip with a gay man as a scoutmaster or to share a tent with an openly gay scout. Even if the homosexuals are not any more prone to molestation than heterosexuals, it would still be wrong because of the sexual attraction present.

Now is the time for the Boy Scouts to man up. Now is the time for them to stick to their principles. Now is not the time for them to back down to pressure from homosexual activists. Just because the culture is rotting and collapsing around the Boy Scouts, and acceptance of homosexuality is become the norm doesn't mean that the Boy Scouts should put their young boys at risk. Allowing homosexuals in Boy Scouts would be asking for a disaster similar to the one that unfolded in the Archdiocese of Boston in 2002.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/expert-homosexuality-clearly-a-factor-in-new-priest-abuse-data
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/29/vatican.gays/index.html