It’s official. The Mormons have finally figured out that they can’t do business with the devil. Bully for them.

More specifically, the Salt Lake City-based denomination is flipping off the demonic forces assigned by Beelzebub to wage war on God’s creation of male and female.

That’s where the minions of Hell have been concentrating their firepower in recent years.  It’s not for nothing that we’ve been told, over and over, that male-female differences are irrelevant and reality is entirely subjective.

But, be of good cheer. Resistance to the cultural insanity is growing.  Last Tuesday, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints announced a parting of the ways with what used to be the Boy Scouts of America.

The Mormons have tried to look the other way since 2013, when the Scouts permitted gay members.  But it just got worse.  The Scouts’ century-old moral code, itself derived from Biblical morality, was pummeled from within and without.  The coup de grace was ordered by liberal corporate donors and performed by quisling BSA board members.  I bet none of them can tie a decent knot, but they sure can sabotage a great American institution.

Well, as noted, the Mormons have had enough.  Last year, the LDS pulled 185,000 boys aged 14 to 18 out of the Scouts.  When the remaining 425,000 boys depart for Mormon youth organizations, it will represent a nearly 20 percent decline in Scout membership, which is now at 2.3 million and falling from a high of 4 million back in the 1960s.

The Boy Scouts were never a genderless service organization like 4-H or other youth groups.   Boy Scouts were taught to be strongly masculine gentlemen guided by timeless values, such as respecting girls and women instead of identifying with them.  They molded millions of boys into modern-day knights, not just “persons.”

Despite winning every single court challenge to their policies, the Boy Scouts had been doing a duck and hide.  They abandoned public defense of their values and embraced only freedom of association, which any bone-headed group could claim.

In May 2015, BSA National President Robert Gates said that keeping out openly gay leaders “cannot be sustained.”  Sure, it could have.  But that would have meant actually fighting the bullies.  So, instead, the BSA National Executive Board voted to overturn the common-sense policy that had protected boys since 1910.  For some reason, this craven stunt did not settle things down.

Mr. Gates was not exactly new to this.  He was the Secretary of Defense under Barack Obama who orchestrated the end of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy against open homosexuality.

He has since gone on to be chancellor at the College of William and Mary, which was chartered in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1693 and named after the British royal couple.  As far as we know, neither William nor Mary ever got confused as to who was king and who was queen.

But back to the Organization Formerly Known as the Boy Scouts of America.  Following Mr. Gates’s lead, the Scouts announced on January 30, 2017, that girls who think they’re boys could enroll in previously boys-only programs.  On May 2, they finally took “Boy” out of the Boy Scouts and changed the name to Scouts BSA.

I wonder if the Girl Scouts, who are decidedly peeved at the brazen poaching of their potential recruits, will follow suit and excise “girl.”  They kicked God out of their oath long ago and have welcomed transgenders, so why not?

When the Boy Scouts began caving in 2013, Mormon leaders and some Protestants and Catholics tried to finesse it, extracting a promise that their troops could keep their own values.

More and more people are finding out the hard way that there is no placating Leftist bullies who mean to remake America into a socialist version of Sodom and Gomorrah.

That’s why some farsighted former Scout leaders founded Trail Life USA in 2013 to pick up the mantle. Now chartered in 48 states, Trail Life, while unabashedly Christian, welcomes all boys who abide by their standards. They work right alongside the American Heritage Girls, founded by former Girl Scout leaders for similar reasons.

I’ve met with Trail Life’s leaders, and they are stand-up guys.  As an Eagle Scout, I’d be proud to see boys in our family benefit from what Scouting used to offer and Trail Life USA still does.

This article was originally published by Townhall.com

The national president of the Boy Scouts of America, Robert Gates, said Thursday that the organization’s longstanding ban on participation by openly gay adults is no longer sustainable, and called for change in order to avert potentially destructive legal battles.

In a speech in Atlanta to the Scouts’ national annual meeting, Gates referred to recent moves by Scout councils in New York City and elsewhere to defy the ban.

“The status quo in our movement’s membership standards cannot be sustained,” he said.

Gates said no change in the policy would be made at the national meeting. But he raised the possibility of revising the policy at some point soon so that local Scout organizations could decide on their own whether to allow gays as leaders.”

Almost exactly two years to the day, Florida Family Policy Council President John Stemberger predicted on CNN that the Boy Scouts of America would change its policy again and also allow openly gay adults to be leaders within two years. Stemberger who also serves as Chairman of the Board of Trail Life USA, a Christian scouting organization, released the following statement:

“Trail Life USA is saddened by the announcement regarding the anticipated membership change in Boy Scouts of America, as many families and boys will be negatively affected by this departure from their own long-standing principles.  It is tragic that the BSA is willing to risk the safety and security of its boys because of peer pressure from activists groups.  Trail Life USA remains committed to timeless Christian values and to the hundreds of Charter Organizations and 23,000 members in 48 states.”

Stemberger’s CNN Debate with Scouts for Equality leader Zach Wahl’s can be seen HERE:

by Malcolm A. Kline –Accuracy in Academia

Now that the President is poised to sign the repeal of the ban on homosexuals serving in the U. S. military, academics are prepared to welcome the armed forces they have banned from their campuses with open arms, at least metaphorically. San Francisco State University political scientist Aaron Belkin will actually be at the White House signing ceremony, according to Renna Communications.

Meanwhile, Harvard is letting the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) come back to Cambridge. Harvard deans evicted ROTC during the Vietnam War.

“In the meantime,” the Center for Military Readiness(CMR) notes, “Marine Corps Commandant General James Amos drew criticism from a gay activist group, sparked by his statement expressing concern for his Marines if the current law is repealed:

-“Fox News: Marine Corps Chief: ‘Distraction’ of Gays Serving Openly Could Cost Marines Limbs

“Aubrey Sarvis of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) who was recently seen sponsoring a rally with Lady Gaga in Maine, issued a statement demanding that Gen. Amos resign. Sarvis’ attitude demonstrates ‘zero tolerance’ of dissent-a strategy of intolerance recommended to make the new LGBT Law or policy ‘work.’ Marines who have a problem with the “New Gender Order” will have no recourse but to leave the Corps.”

As CMR discovered, many will choose to do just that:

1.) “Defense Secretary Robert Gates has repeatedly denied that the survey was a ‘referendum.’ He has nevertheless allowed the media to keep trumpeting the Working Group’s misleading claim that 70% of service members predicted that repeal of the current law would have a ‘positive, mixed, or no effect.’ The carefully crafted money quote, spun up from an innocuous inquiry asking personnel whether they knew or liked someone at work who is gay, quickly morphed into the false claim that 70% of military people surveyed favored repeal of the law.

“To the contrary, as Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council has reported, the highlighted question included ‘mixed’ results indicating that 62% of respondents also believed that repeal would have at least some negative effects:

–Pentagon Report on Homosexuality Buries the Lead: The Majority of Views Expressed Are Opposed to Repeal

“Furthermore, the views of military people on repeal or retention of the current law cannot be stated with certainty because the question was not even asked in any of the Working Group’s survey instruments and focus groups. Nevertheless, the administration is trying to use calculated misrepresentation of the survey results in order to switch sufficient votes to win in the Senate.

2.) “Secretary Gates, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen and DoD General Counsel Jeh Johnson, Co-Chairman of the Working Group, also have claimed that risks associated with repeal would be ‘low.’

-“The claim is belied by specific findings about the strong opposition of combat soldiers and Marines. On page 74 of the DoD Working Group Report available here,and Implementation Plan posted here, we read that ‘Nearly 60% of respondents in the Marine Corps and in Army combat arms said they believed there would be a negative impact on their unit’s effectiveness in this context; among Marine combat arms the number was 67%.’

-“Question 81 of the ‘2010 DADT Survey,’ asking active-duty and reserve troops whether repeal of the current law would affect future career plans, found that 12.6% of personnel in the Military Services Overall said they would leave sooner than planned-a percentage that potentially equates to 264,600 of the 2.1 million active-duty/reserve force. Another 11.1% said they would think about leaving sooner than planned, and potential losses for the Army and Marine Corps would be even higher. (p. 210, DoD Report)

-“Cross-tabbed data displayed in the 2010 DADT Survey indicate that potential losses would be highest among troops described as ‘combat arms.’ Among Army combat arms personnel, 21.4% would leave sooner than planned, and 14.6 would think about leaving the Army.

-“Marine combat arms would be weakened even more, with 32% of Marines leaving sooner than planned, and 16.2% considering an early end to their Marine Corps careers. (See 2010 DADT Survey data, available here, Appendix J, p. 53, for Army figures, and Appendix L, p. 47, for Marine Corps figures.)”

Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia.

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