Action Alert: Contact the United Way
August 17, 2012 // afaofpa // Homosexual AgendaAFA of PA ACTION ALERT
August 17, 2012
Issue
United Way of the Capital Region Considers Defunding Boy Scouts
Details
This past Monday the United Way of the Capital Region met with representatives from the New Birth of Freedom Council, which oversees Boy Scouts in Dauphin, Cumberland, Perry, York and Adams counties and serves 11,400 Scouts. If the United Way decides against the Boy Scouts it will mean a loss of $85,000 annually. Why does the United Way of the Capital Region feel compelled to question the funding of the New Birth of Freedom Council? Because of their ban on homosexual leaders and members and the national BSA’s reaffirmation of that ban on July 17th has brought the issue to the forefront. The United Way of the Capital Region has added “sexual orientation” to their policies and they no longer fund organizations which “discriminate” against homosexuals.
Yesterday the AFA of PA contacted the chairman of the volunteer board, which according to the Patriot News article, will be making the final decision. We asked the board to put aside politics and do what is best for the 11,400 Scouts who would be negatively impacted by the removal of $85,000 annually from the scout council’s budget.
You can read our news release for more information here.
Action Steps
Contact the United Way and ask them to move beyond political correctness and do what is best for the Scouts served by the New Birth of Freedom Scout Council.
United Way of the Capital Region
2235 Millennium Way
Enola, PA 17025
Phone: 717.732.0700
Fax: 717.732.5100
Leadership is here. As we looked down through those named on the “leadership” list we noticed that several of these work for businesses which were sponsors or had booths at the Central PA Pride Festival on July 28th. Highmark Blue Shield was the top donor ($10,000) for the event. This may not bode well for the Boy Scouts!
Topics: Central PA Pride Festival, New Birth of Freedom Scout Council, United Way of Capital Region
In the name of honesty and integrity, please take sexual orientation and discrimination out of quotation marks. The BSA does discriminate against those whose sexual orientation is not heterosexual. This is a real thing, whether you want to believe it is or not. You are entitled to your opinion and I understand that because of your religious beliefs, you dissaprove of the acceptance of sexuality as a variable trait akin to religion, race, gender, etc. And let it be said now that I do not oppose Christianity. I do disagree with your condemnation of homosexuality based on the Bible while ignoring all other Biblical prohibitions such as eating shellfish, wearing blended materials and so forth (among other inconsistencies). The reason why groups like the AFA are deemed hate groups is because of your obvious disdainful attitude towards a group of people you consider to be undeserving of social recognition. Your literature contains unashamed bias expressed in the worst by hateful speech and outright lies and in the least by quotation-based disregard of legally & socially established vernacular. You have a right to express your beliefs and call others to action. I just ask that you recognize and be honest about what it is you are doing. You are not waging a spiritual war against the immoral. You are using emotion-charged and fear-based rhetoric to support the opression of a social minority.
According to the US Supreme Court, as a private organization, the Boy Scouts can determine who their leaders and members are. The Boy Scouts have enough of a problem with sexual molesters without allowing open homosexuals to be leaders.
Did you know that the most recent government report on HIV (reflecting data from the year 2010) reveals that out of over 12,000 new HIV infections that occurred in the 13-to-24 age group, 72 percent were in young men who have sex with men. Is it compassionate to ignore these facts or issue a warning about the dangers of engaging in male on male sex?
Scripture is clear about the sin of homosexuality (Romans 1). Jesus is clear about what a marriage is (Matthew 19). It is clear that homosexuals can turn to God and leave their sin behind (I Corinthians 6). We no longer observe the ceremonial laws concerning diet or wearing mixed fabrics, however the moral law is still in force — “Law of the Spirit” (Romans 8:2) and the “law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2). We are no longer under the Mosaic Law (Galatians 3:17-25) but that does not mean that sin is no longer sin. One cannot say that something that was sin under the law is not sin under grace.
You define speaking the truth as hate and lies. You give no specific references from our literature which expresses “hateful speech and outright lies.” As asked earlier, is it compassionate to ignore the health risks associated with engaging in homosexual sex? To add to that: is it compassionate to ignore the spiritual risks of engaging in homosexual acts? Because, yes, we are engaged in a spiritual battle against immorality. The truth is less than 4% of the entire US population wants to redefine marriage and get special protections simply because of the sexual activity in which they engage.