The Boy Scouts & the Church

Controversy: Read, Write and Scout

Newsweek has a little blurb this week that seems to suggest that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is some sinister influence behind the Boy Scouts of America. Using BYU’s introduction of “scouting” as a major, Newsweek allows gay-rights groups to brush the Church as “the moving force behind the Boy Scouts of America’s policy not to permit ‘avowed homosexuals.’

This is portrayed as a controversy. But why isn’t the controversy that gay-rights groups are forcing the Boy Scouts to deal with sexuality rather than focus on developing good men? Why isn’t the controversy that private organizations are being destroyed in the name of political correctness? Why isn’t the controversy that every institution that deals with youth, public or private, is being coerced to publicly deal with private sexual issues. What happened to having the government stay out of the bedroom?

(Possibly) Related posts:

1. “Mormon Church Issues Statement in Support of Gay-rights Ordinances”