WHY THE BOY SCOUTS SHOULD NOT CHANGE THEIR STAND AGAINST HOMOSEXUAL LEADERSHIP

The decision to accept practicing homosexuals into BSA leadership is not simply a change of direction, it is a change of destination.  

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By abandoning our historic commitment to traditional sexual morality among our leadership we will be implicitly accepting homosexuality among our membership.  If homosexuality is considered acceptable and respectable among our role models it will prove admirable and potentially desirable among our membership.  Given the nature of BSA activities we cannot imagine that such an endorsement will prove constructive.

By allowing BSA troops to set their own policies regarding homosexual leadership, we will signal that moral judgments are based upon local and personal preference rather than universal principles grounded in nature and nature’s God.  Historically the BSA has contended that moral virtue was universal and objective.  That will no longer be our conviction if the proposed change is adopted.

By accepting homosexual leadership we are not only distancing ourselves from our historic identity, we are explicitly acknowledging that our core values have been erroneous at best and malevolent at worst.  To abandon what has been to this point a foundational principle of the BSA, will inevitably open the door to change in ways that we can only imagine. It is not hard to envision that transvestites, bisexuals, and lesbians will be next in line for BSA leadership sanction.

If the BSA bends and breaks under threat of social estrangement, the demand of large financial supporters, and the pressure of those who would redefine morality, we will be teaching our troops that expedience is better than allegiance to virtue.  In light of the fact that many of our nation’s civilian and military leadership learn their first lessons of civic and moral responsibility in our organization, we ought to instill in them the virtue of principle above popularity.

We would urge the BSA national leadership to stand fast in their historic commitment to traditional values and virtues by refusing the demands of those who would have us alter our very identity to suit those who have yet to accept their own identity.