A Requiem for the Boy Scouts

Posted on May 27, 2015 
Filed under Opinion

Albert Mohler“The Boy Scouts were doomed the moment the national leadership decided to preserve the organization at the cost of the values and ideals that gave it birth.

Speaking to a national meeting of Boy Scouts of America leaders, President Robert Gates, former Secretary of Defense and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, called for the B.S.A. to abandon its policy of allowing the participation of openly gay scouts, but not the involvement of openly-gay adults…

By any honest account, the policy adopted in 2013 was a compromise that anyone could see would not hold. …  the B.S.A. put itself in a no-man’s land of moral evasion.”

– Albert Mohler on the predicament facing the Boy Scouts of America.

Related: Dr. Robert M. Gates at 2015 Boy Scouts of America National Annual Meeting. Watch from 08:40.