It's high time for another Tony Perkins Award, and not surprisingly the winner is Tony Perkins:
It seems the reality is a bit different:
I can't find any long-range summaries of membership, but it's been declining for years. There are probably several factors -- the inclusion of gays scouts sparked a reaction from reactionaries, with the Mormon Church severing all ties with the Scouts and a number of "religious" groups following suit. Perkins got that part right, but ignored the other factors (of course). There are many more options available to children these days, and of course, no parent is going to knowingly send their kid to an organization that not only harbors sexual predators, but actively covers up their misdeeds.
So, once again Perkins is tailoring reality to demonize a minority. And he wonders why FRC is known as a hate group.
Via Joe.My.God, with thanks to commenter Baltimatt for the NBC link.
A half-decade into its LGBT experiment, the Boy Scouts are a step away from bankruptcy. Turns out, their defining moment may also be a fatal one. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the group has been bleeding members since it broke camp and allowed in kids and leaders who openly identify as gay and transgender. Not long after that, one of its biggest backers, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, announced the withdrawal of tens of thousands of young LDS from the program.
Friends, if you’re wondering where the road of compromise leads, this is it. This is the future of anyone in the Christian community who exchanges the truth for cowardly conformism. The Boy Scouts dropped their moral mandate to accommodate what they don’t believe. In the current climate, that’s called “inclusion.” But if the Scouts were being more inclusive, why didn’t their numbers grow? Because, when you try to appeal to a conflicting moral viewpoint you only end up attracting the conflict!
It seems the reality is a bit different:
The Boy Scouts of America is considering filing for bankruptcy in part because insurance companies are balking at paying settlements to almost a dozen men who claim they were sexually abused as boys by a notorious scoutmaster.
I can't find any long-range summaries of membership, but it's been declining for years. There are probably several factors -- the inclusion of gays scouts sparked a reaction from reactionaries, with the Mormon Church severing all ties with the Scouts and a number of "religious" groups following suit. Perkins got that part right, but ignored the other factors (of course). There are many more options available to children these days, and of course, no parent is going to knowingly send their kid to an organization that not only harbors sexual predators, but actively covers up their misdeeds.
So, once again Perkins is tailoring reality to demonize a minority. And he wonders why FRC is known as a hate group.
Via Joe.My.God, with thanks to commenter Baltimatt for the NBC link.
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