The Boy Scouts now allow homosexual boys to participate fully in its programs.
What does this mean?
Weren’t all boys always welcomed into the Boys Scouts? Weren’t all boys invited to be morally trained in courage, tenacity, community service, trustworthiness, and good citizenship? Weren’t all boys equally mentored to develop character and skills that honor God, country, and neighbor?
Has there ever been a time when a Boy Scout had to declare himself a heterosexual?
Who turns the heads of boys to think they must demand their rights to sexual preference? Is sexual identity a pre-cursor to responsible citizenship? In the name of common sense, we’re talking about children here!
Sexual identity rules the day… even for a Boy Scout. Alfred Kinsey would be proud. He’s the one who coined the phrase we’ve heard over and over again: “Children are sexual from birth.” Prior to Kinsey, no one ever referred to children as being “sexual” or inferred that they enjoyed or responded pleasurably to a sexual experience. Prior to the 1950s, a child was never defined as “sexual” except in the mind of a predator or pedophile.
A Boy Scout pledges on his honor to do his best “to do my duty to God and my country . . . to help other people at all times . . . to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.” What does it mean to honor God who never once identifies children as “sexual beings?”
God calls boys and girls by name. He entrusts children to moms and dads within the faithfulness of marriage so that they won’t be mistreated by those who do not see them as He does. To guard their personhood, God sets children apart from animals who are captive to instincts and bound to do whatever it is they do. Honoring God, boys are equipped to mature into self-controlled men who rise above selfish interests.
In a sin-drenched world, boys battle sinful natures and the distortion of identity. But a boy who is baptized is a son of God in Christ. He is not defined as sexual, but holy. He is not common, but uncommon. He is not slave to the weakness of body, but strong of spirit.
Baptized or not, we are all – beginning in the womb of our mothers – both body and spirit. Our bodies will change, but our spirits will live forever – either with God or apart from Him. Spiritual identity matters for eternity.
So here is my plea to the Christian community: Do not hide behind choice words like “tolerance” or “compassion.” Linger no longer in organizations shape-shifted by humanist ideologies. Take a stand for the sake of boys who journey to manhood. Treat them not as slaves to themselves, but as heirs of a Kingdom not of this world.
P.S. Fathers, grandfathers and pastors interested in alternatives to the Boy Scouts might visit Vision Forum. This ministry offers exciting resources to mentor godly young men.
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