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Catholic Parish to Boy Scout troop: Obey the faith on homosexuality or go somewhere else

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ALTOONA, WI , August 8, 2013 ( LifeSiteNew s.com ) – A Catholic parish in Wisconsin has told the Boy Scout troop it has sponsored for the last 20 years that it will have to find a new home in response to the troop’s decision to allow practicing homosexuals to join. The Boy Scouts of America   voted in May  to overturn its longstanding policy barring openly gay scouts, and instead allowed troops to include gay scouts if they choose. Boy Scout Troop 90, which meets at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Altoona, revised its membership policy to state that no boy could be denied membership “on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone.” Scoutmaster Bob Thill told the  Eau Claire Leader-Telegram that while Troop 90’s families were evenly split on the issue, the troop changed the rule because “it's the way of the times, and I guess you've got to keep up with it.” But Fr. Derek Sakowski, St. Mary's pastor, said he objects to the policy’s use of the term ...

Gay Activists bully the Boy Scouts

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Image via Wikipedia Church Colson. I’ve been warning you that the current push to legitimize homosexual conduct and so-called gay “marriage” represents today’s greatest threat to religious liberty.  I’ve told you about attacks against iPhone apps for the Manhattan Declaration and Exodus International , as well as a boycott of Chick-fil-a . Their crime? Supporting marriage as only between a man and a woman and having the temerity to not support so-called gay “marriage.” The Boy Scouts ’ politically incorrect stands on homosexuality and atheism have long put this great organization in the extremists’ cross-hairs, and now the pressure is getting even more intense. The Scouts prohibit open homosexuals from serving as leaders. That’s because the organization believes that “homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the obligations in the Scout Oath and Scout Law to be morally straight and clean in thought, word, and deed.” How’s that for straight talking, friends? But now, in th...