Tag Archives: scouts

Will BSA take a well-intentioned but calamitous path?

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

Tweet By nature an upbeat and optimistic person, today I am experiencing feelings that are hard to describe. Upbeat they are not. More a combination of sadness and mourning about the fact that this afternoon representatives of the 290 local … Continue reading →

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My letter to the Boy Scouts of America

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

Tweet The following post is a transcript of a 4-minute weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations. The Boy Scouts of America is scheduled to vote later this month on its proposed nondiscrimination policy on sexual orientation for … Continue reading →

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Scouts, Saints and ‘sexual orientation’

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

Tweet In 1993, between congressional jobs, I briefly worked on Capitol Hill for a national pro-family lobby. I remember a conversation with a former colleague who thought that whether a person was “born gay” or not was irrelevant to the … Continue reading →

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Spinning the news to create wedges in Mormondom?

Posted on February 5, 2013 by

Tweet Just a quick thought on how the pro-homosexual media spins even the clearest statements to favor its ideological … oops, I mean journalistic … opinions. The Salt Lake Tribune’s religion reporter, Peggy Fletcher Stack, relishes every opportunity to create wedges … Continue reading →

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