Catholic leaders urge support for Boy Scouts after shift on gays
(RNS) The U.S. Catholic Churchs top liaison to the Boy Scouts of America is telling Catholic Scout leaders and troop sponsors that the BSAs new policy welcoming gay Scouts is not in conflict with Catholic teaching and they should continue to support scouting programs.
Scouting is still the best youth-serving program available to all youth, Edward P. Martin, chairman of the National Catholic Committee on Scouting, wrote in a May 29 letter addressed to fellow Catholic Scouters.
We should be encouraged that the change in BSAs youth membership standard is not in conflict with Catholic teaching, Martin said, asking that Catholic Scouters and chartered organization heads not rush to judgment.
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Following the vote, a number of Catholics said the church should sever its ties with the BSA and launch alternative scouting groups. The Sunday after the BSA decision, the Rev. Derek Lappe of Our Lady Star of the Sea in Bremerton, Wash., announced that he was closing the parishs scouting program in a lengthy broadside that called gays loser men and listed widely discredited reasons why some men are gay.
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(RNS) The U.S. Catholic Churchs top liaison to the Boy Scouts of America is telling Catholic Scout leaders and troop sponsors that the BSAs new policy welcoming gay Scouts is not in conflict with Catholic teaching and they should continue to support scouting programs.
Scouting is still the best youth-serving program available to all youth, Edward P. Martin, chairman of the National Catholic Committee on Scouting, wrote in a May 29 letter addressed to fellow Catholic Scouters.
We should be encouraged that the change in BSAs youth membership standard is not in conflict with Catholic teaching, Martin said, asking that Catholic Scouters and chartered organization heads not rush to judgment.
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Following the vote, a number of Catholics said the church should sever its ties with the BSA and launch alternative scouting groups. The Sunday after the BSA decision, the Rev. Derek Lappe of Our Lady Star of the Sea in Bremerton, Wash., announced that he was closing the parishs scouting program in a lengthy broadside that called gays loser men and listed widely discredited reasons why some men are gay.
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