Boy Scouts Delay Homosexuality Decision until May – Coalition Asks Pro-‘Gay’ CEOs to Resign from Scout Board

“Insider” pro-homosexual CEOs Stephenson and Turley must step down

AFTAH and other pro-family groups have urged AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson and Ernst & Young CEO Jim Turley to resign from the Boy Scouts’ Executive Board due to their reckless pro-homosexual advocacy.

TAKE ACTION: thank the Boy Scouts for not rushing into a reckless, politically correct decision to rescind their wholesome policy against homosexual immorality. But let them know that nothing short of a clear reaffirmation of their longstanding policy against openly homosexual Scoutmasters and Scouts will restore the good reputation of the BSA. E-mail the Scouts at pr@scouting.org.

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Folks, today we received word that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has delayed until May a decision on whether to make the radical change of allowing openly homosexual Scoutmasters and Scouts. The announced delay came after the BSA came under an avalanche of criticism for revealing to the media that the venerable boys organization would likely end its longstanding homosexual exclusion policy — under pressure from “gay” activists and pro-homosexual corporations.

While we at AFTAH welcome this delay, it would have been better if the BSA had simply announced that it was abandoning the misguided idea of opening itself up to homosexuality. But at least we know that the Scouts have gotten the message from the grassroots that allowing homosexuality in the BSA would be disastrous to the organization.

We urge citizens to continue urging the BSA to completely repudiate any policy shift on homosexuality. If the Scouts are to retain the trust of parents nationwide, they must unequivocally reaffirm the current, common-sense policy against homosexuality — which has no place in a wholesome boys organization that professes to teach boys to be “morally straight” and revere God.

Americans For Truth About Homosexuality has very busy defending the idea of keeping the Boy Scouts of America “morally straight.”  In the last week, I have done national interviews on the Scouts’ potential capitulation on WVCY America and the Janet Mefferd Show — as well as a half dozen other radio shows.  On the WVCY program [listen HERE], a man called in and told how, as a boy, he was molested by his Scoutmaster and “used” sexually again and again.  This man was resolutely against changing the Scouts’ existing policy against homosexuality.  What a heartbreaking testimony, but what a powerful example of what is at stake in this critical cultural battle.

Internal “gay” advocates must step down

Americans For Truth reiterates its call for the two corporate CEOs who reportedly are the strongest advocates for the pro-“gay” policy change — AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson and Ernst & Young CEO Jim Turley — to resign from the BSA’s Executive Board immediately. Regrettably, these two advocates of homosexuality have undermined the organization they are supposed to be serving. Through their ongoing pro-LGBT advocacy, they have instigated a massive and unnecessary public controversy that has already damaged the reputation of the Scouts.

“Out and proud” homosexuality may be the current rage in the corporate world, but it is not a Scouting value.

Homosexual activist groups were already pressuring the BSA to go even further than the ill-conceived proposal had envisioned and institute a national policy of blanket acceptance of homosexual members and Scoutmasters. Now “Gay Inc.” will be lobbying harder than ever for the Scouts to “go gay” — regardless of the damage this does to the BSA and the boys in its care.

So far your voice has checked the Homosexual Lobby’s high-powered activism. But we must be as relentless in our advocacy to preserve the (American) Scouts as a God-fearing, “morally straight” organization as our adversaries are in lobbying for the Scouts to accommodate sexual immorality. Thank you for standing up for truth and making your voice heard. — Peter LaBarbera, www.aftah.org

The following pro-family organizations representing millions of Americans have joined in calling for the resignation of Turley and Stephenson from the BSA Executive Board:

Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH)

Abiding Truth Ministries

American Family Association (AFA national)

AFA of Michigan

AFA of Pennsylvania

Catholic Citizens of Illinois

Family Policy Network

Illinois Family Institute

Liberty Counsel

Mass Resistance

Mission America

PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays)

Restored Hope Network

U.S. Coalition for Life

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

Vision America