Boy Scouts had to fight with Catholic priests to remove gay leader
Photo ~ Greg Bourke Boy Scouts had to fight with Catholic priests to remove gay leader from Catholic scout troop? LOUISVILLE, August 20, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) –The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) have …More
Photo ~ Greg Bourke
Boy Scouts had to fight with Catholic priests to remove gay leader from Catholic scout troop?
LOUISVILLE, August 20, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) –The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) have assured a homosexual will no longer act as an assistant scoutmaster at a Catholic church’s troop. But he will continue to lead Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church’s Girl Scout troop.
“I am finding it increasingly difficult to keep a low profile and stay ‘in the closet’ with the Boy Scouts,” Greg Bourke, 54, wrote in a letter to the Lincoln Heritage Council on June 22.
Bourke told local media after he refused to resign, the council contacted the church’s priest, Fr. Scott Wimsett, and later Fr. Jeff Gatlin, the Scouting liaison for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville.
Bourke claimed that both priests refused to remove him from his Boy Scout post.
He stepped aside only after the Boy Scouts threatened to revoke the church’s scouting charter.
However, he will remain a leader in Girl …More
Boy Scouts had to fight with Catholic priests to remove gay leader from Catholic scout troop?
LOUISVILLE, August 20, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) –The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) have assured a homosexual will no longer act as an assistant scoutmaster at a Catholic church’s troop. But he will continue to lead Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church’s Girl Scout troop.
“I am finding it increasingly difficult to keep a low profile and stay ‘in the closet’ with the Boy Scouts,” Greg Bourke, 54, wrote in a letter to the Lincoln Heritage Council on June 22.
Bourke told local media after he refused to resign, the council contacted the church’s priest, Fr. Scott Wimsett, and later Fr. Jeff Gatlin, the Scouting liaison for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville.
Bourke claimed that both priests refused to remove him from his Boy Scout post.
He stepped aside only after the Boy Scouts threatened to revoke the church’s scouting charter.
However, he will remain a leader in Girl …More
- Report
Social media
Change post
Remove post
imcatholic
- Report
Change comment
Remove comment
If the person in question had a problem with a different addiction such as drugs or alcohol, he/she would not be allowed to be in a leadership position. If same sex attraction is viewed as something to be overcome then those people who suffer from it should not be leading our young people. Whether or not liberals like or even understand it, we (non-liberals, Christians, conservatives, etc.) want …More
If the person in question had a problem with a different addiction such as drugs or alcohol, he/she would not be allowed to be in a leadership position. If same sex attraction is viewed as something to be overcome then those people who suffer from it should not be leading our young people. Whether or not liberals like or even understand it, we (non-liberals, Christians, conservatives, etc.) want our children to grow under the guidence of people like ourselves, not people who suffer from addictions, abnormalities/perversions and other conditions/opinions we disagree with.
Gloria.TV – News Briefs
- Report
Change comment
Remove comment
Comments:
Shame on those Girl Scout mothers who think 2 gay men represent the best role models to lead their Girl Scout troop. So much for developing female leadership.
------------------------------
The BSA is a private, voluntary, organization, period. If the BSA want’s to keep predator pedophiles, homosexuals, and their PC enablers out, more power to them!
The afore mentioned monsters are …More
Comments:
Shame on those Girl Scout mothers who think 2 gay men represent the best role models to lead their Girl Scout troop. So much for developing female leadership.
------------------------------
The BSA is a private, voluntary, organization, period. If the BSA want’s to keep predator pedophiles, homosexuals, and their PC enablers out, more power to them!
The afore mentioned monsters are literally the monsters at the gates, trying to force their way in. The best people can do is support the BSA in their beliefs, and prevent the atrocities that the leftists are trying to perpetrate upon such a time honored institution.
-----------------------------------------
I recently chastised a young niece of mine, when she so strongly objected to a Christian school’s dismissal of a self-idenitied “gay” teacher. She used terms like “his first amendment rights” and “freedom of speech and thought”, and suggested that what the school did should be considered illegal.
I patiently asked her - what about the “first amendment rights” of the school, to adhere to it’s religious faith and practice. I suggested she back off of her idea that the law should be brought to bear on the case, even if she disagreed wth the school’s policy.
I asked her - if the school did not have a right to it’s opinion, then whose opinions are free from becoming “illegal” just ‘cause enough people say so. She saw my point, agreeing that the school had a legal right to it’s policy.
I just want to remind everyone:
So does the BSA, and guess what, so do private organizations that disagree with the BSA.
We can feel betrayed by our own religious organizations that do not live up to their own standards of faith and practice, and we can and should advocate that our religious leaders not permit such betrayals; as long as, beyond that, we do not wish, hope and desire, a reversal of fortunes and want the law to “enforce” the opinions of the BSA.
We will never get the Liberals out of the use of the law as their most-desired instrument of “social change” and “social values”, if too many of us simply want the shoe on the other foot.
Personally, I am more of a “social” Conservative; when it comes to the law I am more a Libertarian. I believe Jesus intended we make His law our own, personally, and in all our private assosications and priavte institutions, and not pretend we are making secular government His instrument. I believe He disavos such linkage to Him.
---------------------------------------
Homosexuality is not a condition. It is an activity. One cannot be a homosexual unless one has engaged in homosexual acts.
------------------------------------------
I am a member of Our Lady of Lourdes. It mystifies me that a man living openly in a homosexual relationship is allowed to function as an extraordinary minister of the Holy Eucharist. There is also an open lesbian couple at the parish with an adopted child. Wouldn’t these situations have been called giving scandal years ago?
Shame on those Girl Scout mothers who think 2 gay men represent the best role models to lead their Girl Scout troop. So much for developing female leadership.
------------------------------
The BSA is a private, voluntary, organization, period. If the BSA want’s to keep predator pedophiles, homosexuals, and their PC enablers out, more power to them!
The afore mentioned monsters are literally the monsters at the gates, trying to force their way in. The best people can do is support the BSA in their beliefs, and prevent the atrocities that the leftists are trying to perpetrate upon such a time honored institution.
-----------------------------------------
I recently chastised a young niece of mine, when she so strongly objected to a Christian school’s dismissal of a self-idenitied “gay” teacher. She used terms like “his first amendment rights” and “freedom of speech and thought”, and suggested that what the school did should be considered illegal.
I patiently asked her - what about the “first amendment rights” of the school, to adhere to it’s religious faith and practice. I suggested she back off of her idea that the law should be brought to bear on the case, even if she disagreed wth the school’s policy.
I asked her - if the school did not have a right to it’s opinion, then whose opinions are free from becoming “illegal” just ‘cause enough people say so. She saw my point, agreeing that the school had a legal right to it’s policy.
I just want to remind everyone:
So does the BSA, and guess what, so do private organizations that disagree with the BSA.
We can feel betrayed by our own religious organizations that do not live up to their own standards of faith and practice, and we can and should advocate that our religious leaders not permit such betrayals; as long as, beyond that, we do not wish, hope and desire, a reversal of fortunes and want the law to “enforce” the opinions of the BSA.
We will never get the Liberals out of the use of the law as their most-desired instrument of “social change” and “social values”, if too many of us simply want the shoe on the other foot.
Personally, I am more of a “social” Conservative; when it comes to the law I am more a Libertarian. I believe Jesus intended we make His law our own, personally, and in all our private assosications and priavte institutions, and not pretend we are making secular government His instrument. I believe He disavos such linkage to Him.
---------------------------------------
Homosexuality is not a condition. It is an activity. One cannot be a homosexual unless one has engaged in homosexual acts.
------------------------------------------
I am a member of Our Lady of Lourdes. It mystifies me that a man living openly in a homosexual relationship is allowed to function as an extraordinary minister of the Holy Eucharist. There is also an open lesbian couple at the parish with an adopted child. Wouldn’t these situations have been called giving scandal years ago?