The End of the Boy Scouts

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DATE: August 2, 2001 
FROM: JERRY FALWELL 
The end of the Boys Scouts as we know them? 
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court found that the Boy Scouts of 
America - as a private organization that recruits like-minded 
members - can determine their own employee standards. A Scout named 
James Dale lost his challenge of the Boy Scout policy that prohibits 
homosexuals from serving; he was rejected as an adult scoutmaster 
after he became publicly involved in a college homosexual 
organization. 
Following that High Court decision, homosexual-rights organizations 
in our nation have been on a relentless year-long campaign to define 
the Scouts as an organization of hate and intolerance. 
Subsequently, some school districts and communities have adopted 
policies that ban the Scouts from utilizing their facilities. 
Apparently, the so-called "right to privacy" only works in our 
nation these days as long as that privacy is politically correct. 
And apparently, the Boy Scoutsl sterling history of training 110 
million American boys to be tomorrow's leaders means nothing. 
Under pressure, a Boy Scout council in Massachusetts has 
adopted a policy permitting homosexual scoutmasters to be affiliated 
with local troops if they agree not to discuss their sexual 
orientation with boys. And last week, the Miami-Dade Boy Scouts, 
under threat of losing public funding and public school sponsorship, 
agreed to a number of demands, including directing young boys who 
may be "questioning their sexuality" to visit with a homosexual 
organization. 
I wonder if those boys will also be directed to an organization that 
consists of "ex gays" who have, through a committed relationship 
with Jesus Christ, escaped the dangerous homosexual lifestyle? If 
the boys are indeed "questioning," shouldn't they receive all 
pertinent information? 
see. 
The Miami deal was made with Safeguarding America's Values for 
Everyone (SAVE) Dade, a local homosexual organization, and the 
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