What is it with the adult fixation on identifying boys in the boy scouts as homosexuals? Is it the gay lobby that wants to [homo]sexualize children from an early age? I find it offensive that adult men contemplate such things.

I am deeply ashamed that the President of my own denomination, the Lutheran Church -Missouri Synod, has decided to publicly oppose a policy change in the BSA that would benefit many boys struggling with sexual identity. I am, however, deeply gratified to see young men such as yourself and the others who post on this board who are willing to deal with the issue openly, honestly and in accord with God’s Word. It gives me great hope for the future of the Church. I am also glad scouting gave you such benefits and hope that it will continue to give many other young men the same support and foundation.

There is a hard to name combination of friend, lover and kinsman which I recognize as what I want both to be and to have. But “husband” it is not. Men have their own natural forms. See Miller & Donovan’s “Blood Brotherhood & Other Rites of Male Alliance.”

WERE the Catholic tradition able to accept same-sex love and institutionalize it, my fantasy would be to have it somewhat parallel not to marriage but to religious vows: a sacramental, not a sacrament. No Catholic thinks a monk’s vows less worthy than a husband’s but the difference is recognized instinctually and theologically. This (very fantasy) state would enable the honoring of male/male love as itself, on its own terms, not as a hand-me-down of matrimony. Marriage, which I honor, is about family, about children. The love of men for each other is about friendship, as you say.

Just go ahead and “bully” them into deciding whether “they must be gay”.
Yeah, thats JUST what adolescent kids need when they are wondering why nobody asked them to be their date on Prom Night.

1. ALL bullying of children is wrong. PERIOD! Full stop. Unconditional. No special selection criteria. No child goes to the front of the queue for extra care and protection! If you really DO stand for “equality” don’t claim that your child is more important than mine!

2. Don’t sexualise children. Don’t look at a male school child and contemplate whether they enjoy homosexual acts. Keep disgusting gay activism OUT of schools – especially when it’s camouflaged as isolated concern for “gay children”.

What’s the agenda?

If the “gay Christian” crowd really wants unity, simply prove it. Toss the label out altogether, because true integrity need not an explanation to skeptical onlookers.