Why is the UMC General Board of Church and Society so dead set against what the Boy Scouts of America stands for?

1.  The GBCS has actively called for churches to ostracize the BSA if the BSA won't accept homosexual activists to be troop leaders.

2.  The GBCS is very open in supporting every homosexual advocate cause that has entered the UMC.

3.  The official homosexual advocacy group in the UMC, via their news service UM Called Out, has openly supported the practice of adult homosexuals mentoring sexually confused youth (a.k.a. pedophilia).

4.  Boy Scout troops are common targets by pedophiles.

5.  National homosexual advocacy groups have made the BSA "public enemy number one."

6.  The homosexual advocates have backing in their attack of the BSA by the highest office of the nation.

Who's afraid of the Boy Scouts?  [Be sure to read the entire article; following are a few excerpts]

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23 2000

[The homosexual BSA protests in Toledo are headed by John Hemstreet, a convicted child molester.]

"In the 20-some years I devoted to Scout leadership, I really
did not see or experience a problem with scouting and gays.
Nobody talked about it. Nobody, or very few, anyway, came out of
the closet. The BSA policy against gays is something that I've
seen arise within the last half-dozen or so years," [Hemstreet] said.

Keep in mind, Hemstreet pleaded guilty to two counts of gross
sexual imposition involving a 10-year-old boy.

"I don't think I would be able to be a Scout leader today," he
continues, "and I'm not even sure I would want to be. I don't
think I could be true to my beliefs and still embrace an
organization that discriminates."

Let's get a grip. One of the reasons homosexuals want so
desperately to be Boy Scout troop leaders is because some of
them would love to have an opportunity to molest children and
recruit more future homosexuals.

That's right. I said it. I'm not going to tiptoe through the
tulips about this. Some homosexuals want to be around children
for one reason -- to prey on them.

DeBoer, on the other hand, insists "too many people make the
mistake of confusing pedophilia with homosexuality, as if the
former is somehow an automatic result of the latter."

No, it's not automatic, by any stretch of the imagination. But
let's not pretend there is no link, either.

In fact, according to some studies, at least a third of all
reported child molestation involves homosexual acts. If we
assume, incorrectly, that the homosexual activists and the
flawed Kinsey research are correct and 10 percent of the general
population is homosexual, clearly homosexuals represent a
disproportionate number of child molesters. But that data is not
correct -- not by a long shot. The percentage of homosexuals in
the general population is probably much closer to 2 to 4 percent.

What that means is homosexuals are between 12 times and 16 times
more likely to molest a child sexually. Furthermore, one study
in Psychological Reports, published in 1985, found that teachers
(or those in authority over children) who are homosexual are
between 90 to 100 times more apt to involve themselves sexually
with pupils than teachers who are heterosexual.

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The following article demonstrates why the BSA must be so cautious about
the possibility of pedophiles in their midst, as you can read (below are excerpts):

FORMER CAMP OFFICIAL FACES MULTIPLE CHARGES
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
Published: 8/23/00 Author: Greg Moran and Gregory Alan Gross

A 33-year-old former staff administrator at a
[Boy Scouts of America]  Scout camp has
been arrested and charged with sexually molesting several
teen-age Scouts with whom he worked over the past three years.

Glenn Jordan of El Cajon was arrested at a Santee home Monday
night. He was being held in county jail in lieu of $1 million
bail and is scheduled to be arraigned today on 33 counts of
child molesting. Authorities said the investigation is
continuing and they expect more charges to be filed.

Prosecutor Sophia Roach said the allegations involve seven boys
who were Scouts and worked as staff members at the Mataguay
Scout Reservation.

Jordan had been in the position for the past two years, living
on the private reservation where the camp is located, said
McAllister. He said Jordan had worked for the Scouts since 1989.

The Scouts Jordan is accused of molesting range in age from 14
to 18, said M'liss Hinshaw of the sheriff's child-abuse unit.

Hinshaw said Jordan is charged with a variety of crimes,
ranging from performing sex with a foreign object to sodomy . . .

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Click here to read a very extensive article about the homosexual advocates who
are targeting the Boy Scouts of America.

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I pass the following along only for the purpose of news, and for truth (who cares which party is elected when more important things are at issue?).  I've interjected some TRUTH in below in [brackets].
 

DEMOCRATIC DELEGATES BOO THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

Valerie Richardson
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
August 18, 2000

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LOS ANGELES -- When Gloria Johnson learned that a group of
Eagle Scouts was about to take the stage at the Democratic
National Convention, she immediately went into action.

She and other California delegates grabbed poster board and
markers and made signs that read, "We Support Gay Boy
Scouts." As the uniformed Scouts took part in the opening
ceremony, the delegates, seated in the front of the hall,
waved their signs — and booed.

Under normal circumstances, jeering at children is the sort
of behavior that might get a delegate sanctioned, if not
booted from the convention altogether. But anyone who
expected the Democratic leadership to scold the Boy Scouts
of America  bashers is attending the wrong convention.

Support for homosexual rights has become an integral part of
the Democratic orthodoxy, as unassailable as the party's
pro-choice or civil rights planks. Since the Supreme Court
ruled that the Boy Scouts can ban homosexual leaders, the
Democrats have sided squarely with homosexuals in condemning
the decision.

Indeed, Democratic National Committee spokesman Rick Hess
was careful to avoid criticizing either the Boy Scouts or
the delegates, instead stressing that the party is staunchly
committed to homosexual rights.

Most Democrats support the work the Boy Scouts do," said Mr.
Hess. "At the same time, we want to see gays and lesbians
treated with respect. Democrats across the board support
equal rights for gays and lesbians and we want to make sure
they're not discriminated against."

[Comment:  Remember the TRUTH of the BSA position, which is to treat EVERY person with respect.  The issue is not about homosexual rights, the issue is about sexual morality.  The BSA will not accept any adult as a leader who brings sexual immorality to the organization, and that includes any heterosexual man who would speak freely of committing adultery in his marriage and then telling the scouts that it's a fine and natural thing to do.  This is not inappropriate discrimination, but rather it is totally appropriate discrimination (look up the word in the dictionary--it means "to distinguish or select based on quality."]

The Boy Scouts, meanwhile, were shocked by the negative
reception. The Los Angeles Council of Boy Scouts sent a
half-dozen Eagle Scouts and an adult leader to the event at
the request of Democratic organizers, said council spokesman
Joey Robinson.

"I think whatever the national policy is, the kids don't set
the policy. When you boo the policy, you're booing the
kids," said Mr. Robinson.

Fortunately, he said, the Staples Center was so noisy during
the Tuesday night ceremony that none of the boys heard the
booing, although the adult leader did.

Delegates who participated in protesting the Boy Scouts
yesterday said they had nothing against the boys, but wanted
to send a message to the Democratic Party for inviting the
Scouts.

"Of course, we're not against the kids —  it isn't about
them," said California delegate Craig Christensen. "But
there were groups that could have been picked that haven't
been so blatantly discriminatory. . . . It was a thoughtless
thing to do."

Alex Mallonee, a California delegate who didn't participate
in the demonstration, said he sympathized with the
homosexual delegates.

"I think it was odd that they had the Boy Scouts up there,
given the situation," he said. "It was pretty insensitive."

This year's convention has almost twice as many homosexual
delegates as the 1996 gathering, thanks to recruiting
efforts by the national party. Mr. Christensen said there
are 212 openly homosexual delegates at this year's
convention, up from 125 four years ago.

Delegates give credit to the DNC, which instructed state
parties to work on making their delegations reflect their
states' minority composition. For many states, that meant
setting "targets," which are different from quotas,
Democrats insisted.

When states submit their delegation plans, the DNC asks them
to have their delegations look as much like their voters as
possible," said Mr. Hess. "This is wholly different from
quotas — this is Colin Powell-type recruitment."

In California, that meant setting "targets" of 5 percent
homosexual men and 5 percent homosexual women. The
California delegation ended up with 34 openly homosexual
delegates, the largest concentration of any state.

[Comment:  Every unbiased study to determine the commonality of homosexuality in the nation has consistently shown no more than 3% (and often closer to 2%) of the nations men are homosexual, and not even 1% of the women.  The common 10% figure is politically correct "media talk" pushed by the homosexual advocates.]

Delegate Jeri Dilno said the state party would have
appointed homosexual delegates if the caucuses fell short of
those goals. "A friend of mine was appointed that way the
last time [in 1996]," she said.

The Georgia delegation also set a goal of 5 percent and met
it by electing five openly homosexual delegates out of 105,
said delegate Annette Hatton.

Wisconsin delegate Jane Fee, 73, who was born a man but has
been taking female hormones and dressing like a woman for
the past dozen years, said he "came as part of the female
quota." But since he never had a sex-change operation, he
acknowledged he fulfills the Democratic sex quotas all by
himself.

"Actually, the diversity that we show in the Democratic
Party, whether it's by quota or not, indicates that we
really are interested in having all of America represented
by the party," said Mr. Fee, a father and grandfather who
used to be known as James.

As for the Boy Scouts, Miss Hatton added that she never
heard any booing during the ceremony, although other
delegates and news accounts reported booing.

Michael Perez, chairman of the National Stonewall Democratic
Federation, called the protesters "very supportive of the
kids."

"We're 100 percent behind the kids," said Mr. Perez. "We
don't agree with what their establishment came up with.
There are gay Boy Scouts out there, and we want them to know
we support them."

Rep. Jennifer Dunn, Washington Republican, didn't see it
that way. "The Boy Scouts are revered by most people," she
said. "It's the kind of thing that reflects badly on the
Democratic Party."

Bill Sammon contributed to this report.

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