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Yeah, well we'll see. The Civil Air Patrol
offers a program in conjunction with the Scouts and the next jamboree is going
to literally be held in my neighborhood at Ft. A.P. Hill. My Squadron gets to
assist with the Jamboree and I haven't heard Satan's Mongers complaining about
that yet. The last Jamboree had an unfortunate death occur when a 17 year
old was driving a hum-vee and it flipped over. The Army didn't like that
too much and had some Senators pass along some regulations regarding that. The
Boy Scouts may be sponsored by churches but they are not a church. They are an
organization. The Rangers are sponsored by mostly A/G churches and comprise of
people mostly of the A/G denomination which can be considered the church for
these purposes because everything goes back to the A/G HQ in Springfield. Many
different denominations sponsor scouts, so how can one say that they are a
church? They're not. Kudos to the BSA for taking a stand on what's right.
Shame on the Army for caving in. This sounds like a Job for our advocate down at
the ACLJ.
Iron Mike
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Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 3:48
PM
Subject: [RR] Boy Scouts attacked by
Satan-- again
I don�t know how many of you heard
about it, but Satan and his minions at the ACLU are at it again. The US
Military caved in and agreed to enforce its rule not to �officially� sponsor
Boy Scout Troops. The ACLU sued because sponsoring the Boy Scouts was
violating the �separation of Church and State� idea that the Supreme Court
established a few years back. The ACLU has specifically targeted the Boy
Scouts of America because they took a stand and discharge homosexual Scout
Masters and insist the all scouts include �God� in the scout pledge. The
reports I read downplayed the short term effects of this plea agreement�the
scout troops have switched sponsorship to VFW posts or something else.
However, it may have a tremendous impact in the long term�especially regarding
Jamborees.
As an Eagle Scout, I am proud of
the BSA and the stands they have made. As a Gold Medal of Achievement
earner and longtime RR commander, I believe Royal Rangers is the better
program because it does a better job preparing a boy to be a Man of God.
However, when I was in scouts, one of the district officers told me that
40% of all scouts enter
a Church for the first time as a result of Scouts. We as a Church need
to be supporting them in prayer and financially when possible. Boy
Scouts is another tool that God uses in this world to prepare boys for
eternity. I pray that the Holy Spirit will break the hearts of lawyers
at the ACLU and strengthen the backbone of the Military commanders at the
Pentagon!
BTW, this is yet another reason we
need a true believer in the Whitehouse. The courts must stop creating
laws and quit messing around with there social experiments.
Daniel P.
Clark
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