SOUTHERN BAPTISTS TO BOY SCOUTS: FUCK YOU
From CNN courtesy of a facebook friend:

The denomination will vote on nonbinding but influential resolutions during a convention June 11-12 in Houston.

“There’s a 100% chance that there will be a resolution about disaffiliation at the convention,” said Richard Land, the longtime head of the Southern Baptists’ Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, “and a 100% chance that 99% of people will vote for it.”

“Southern Baptists are going to be leaving the Boy Scouts en masse,” Land continued.

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The National Jewish Committee on Scouting, the United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church, the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which sponsors more Scout units than any other faith, all endorsed the change.

The National Catholic Committee on Scouting, which is run with oversight from a bishop, said Thursday that allowing gay youths in the Scouts does not conflict with church teaching. Each bishop will decide whether or not to allow churches in his diocese to charter Scout units, the committee added.

More here.

While not at all surprising, it is quite disappointing that my former denomination has chosen to further marginalize itself from mainstream American values.  Quitting the Southern Baptists is one of the best moves I've ever made.  They're already crazy, and they're on a one way road to open conflict with civilization, and they're cheering each other on while they do it.  I mean, c'mon.  Even the Mormons, the freaking Mormons, are cool with this.  It's not as though you have to endorse homosexuality in order to continue supporting scouting.  After all, this isn't really, and it never has been, about whether gay kids are in the BSA.  As with the military, gay kids have always been in scouting.  This is about whether those kids have to keep their personal natures secret.  But the Southern Baptists don't give a shit.  As somebody who grew up within their indoctrination system, I can safely and accurately say that much of what drives them is anger and resentment toward people who don't share their beliefs.  This needless fuck-you to the Boy Scouts stands as a prime example.

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