"Growing up Mormon, you are constantly surrounded by other Mormons. The church's attempt to seal the bubble even tighter does not project confidence in the face of cultural change — it is a retreat from reality."
anybody Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "Growing up Mormon, you are constantly surrounded > by other Mormons. The church's attempt to seal the > bubble even tighter does not project confidence in > the face of cultural change — it is a retreat > from reality."
The mormon church often flip-flops on issues. A hundred years ago, they had an "oath of vengence" vow against the United States government as a part of the endowment ceremony. A few decades later, they want to be seen as some of the most patriotic Americans. The church tried to use boy scouting as a means to prove just how mainstream they are. Now that gays and women are allowed in to the boy scouts, they withdraw from it.
The church from the top down is hypocritical and duplicitous. To me, it looks like the church is in a withdrawl and regroup mode right now. They want to stop the great apostacy. But they don't know how to do it without becoming something that is foreign to them. Until some of the old geezers in charge die off and turn the church over to the next generation, nothing significant will change.
> > Until some of the old geezers in charge die > off and turn the church over to the next > generation, nothing significant will change. >
But the old geezers are the one 'hiring & promoting' the next generation of old geezers, and as I once opined, "Mediocre management only hires & promotes mediocre employees." Anyone appearing to be a threat to the current way of doing things, or of making the current managers look bad, is to be avoided.
Openly gay scouts? LDSmisLEADERS (make a mountain out of a molehill, as usual) says [LDS] "Boy Scouts can be gay. That's okay."
THEN, Gay Scout leaders? "LDS (mis)leaders - Don't quote me on this-"The moe men spokes men are moe men terry lee on vacation...", so the BSA kicks the announcement can down the calendar road just a whittle while wronger.
LDStINK say, "HELLoNO! WELL, OKAY, as long as WE get to pick (on) our own (NOT necessarily known, thought of as, or considered gay or happy) BSA (Boy Seeks Alternatives) MASTER(baiters)s. Then the LDSpeak super-supreme spokesmodel person-aid official doctrine, policy and witness says "The 'Church' has always accepted boys into scouts who might be gay but not scout master[de][baiter]s" (paraphrased).
Being GAY, and out, in the 1980s-1990s (or even earlier, or more recently, like today, in some places!), you would NOT be treated the same as the other boys, by them, their limited upbringing by their parents, or especially by TSCC (Mormonism) itself.
Then BSA knows they are losing the morons, so they take in the girls, who should have equal status (as should the boys, in girl scouts) and the institutions should be seamless and transferable, trans or knot.
BSA lawsuits major (final) reason.
They want to distance themselves from each other. They are both relieved.