LDS leave BSA today – in accordance with a decision announced more than two years ago, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints officially terminates its century-old relationship with the “Scouts BSA,” formerly the Boy Scouts of America. For once, the Salt Lake City corporation is obeying biblical commandments, even if later than they should have. (Jesus told the disciples He sent out to preach one time that if they and their message were rejected by people, they should depart peacefully and ” as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.”
As I have mostly cut my ties with the Boy Scouts of America and Scouting, I was unaware of some major problems which have developed and are hastening the final collapse of this once-fine institution. I knew some, but not much of it.
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Attack in Texas – follow-up
Robert “Beto” O’Rourke’s comments about the West Freeway Church shooting, as reported by the Daily Caller and others, sticks in my craw: “So saddened to hear about another church shooting in Texas, this one in White Settlement near Fort Worth,” the former Democratic presidential candidate tweeted. “Clearly what we are doing in Texas, what we are doing in this country, when it comes to guns is not working.”
Am I just reading too much into these words by an ex-Congressman and failed Senate and Presidential candidate? Did “what we are doing” fail because this murderer had a shotgun? Or because the congregation was able to protect itself from a murderously evil man? Are he and other haters of guns upset that another massacre did NOT take place, right after Christmas?
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