Episcopal Church Leaders Support Boy Scout Decision. Presiding Bishop Silent
Episcopal Church Leaders Support Boy Scout Decision. Presiding Bishop Silent
Boy Scouts Betrayed their Oath say conservative groups and parents
New Boy Scout Movements are being formed
News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
May 30, 2013
The moral capitulation by the Boy Scout Association apparently does not warrant a statement of support from The Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori even though the 73rd General Convention passed resolution C031 in 2000 encouraging the Boy Scouts of America to allow membership to youth and adult leaders irrespective of their sexual orientation. An inquiry to a TEC News staffer as to whether the PB would put out a statement on the Boy Scouts decision to allow openly gay youths to be scouts was met with a curt "no."
Perhaps mindful that hundreds of thousands of aging Episcopalians grew up and were active members in the Boy Scouts with many still retaining conservative values, top leadership of TEC chose silence on the BSA decision. For the vast majority of Episcopal parishes across the nation will never see or vote for a gay priest, let alone see a gay bishop, the BSA decision hits closer to home. Positive support by the Presiding Bishop for the BSA would clearly have backfired against her and TEC, a risk she was not prepared to take.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Boy Scouts Betrayed their Oath say conservative groups and parents
New Boy Scout Movements are being formed
News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
May 30, 2013
The moral capitulation by the Boy Scout Association apparently does not warrant a statement of support from The Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori even though the 73rd General Convention passed resolution C031 in 2000 encouraging the Boy Scouts of America to allow membership to youth and adult leaders irrespective of their sexual orientation. An inquiry to a TEC News staffer as to whether the PB would put out a statement on the Boy Scouts decision to allow openly gay youths to be scouts was met with a curt "no."Perhaps mindful that hundreds of thousands of aging Episcopalians grew up and were active members in the Boy Scouts with many still retaining conservative values, top leadership of TEC chose silence on the BSA decision. For the vast majority of Episcopal parishes across the nation will never see or vote for a gay priest, let alone see a gay bishop, the BSA decision hits closer to home. Positive support by the Presiding Bishop for the BSA would clearly have backfired against her and TEC, a risk she was not prepared to take.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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