The New Normal assaults the Boy Scouts

By: American Decency Staff

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It's amazing how intolerant are those who are crying for “tolerance.”  On last night's “The New Normal,” creator/producer Ryan Murphy climbed the steps to his bully pulpit to slam the Boy Scouts of America for having the audacity to hold (at least for now) to a moral viewpoint that is antithetical to his views.

However it shouldn't be a surprise that Murphy targeted the Boy Scouts with his scathing ridicule.  Bullying those who won't accept his immorality as “normal” is what Murphy does best. Each episode of “The New Normal” is a pulpit-pounding, rafter-shaking sermon-of-the-week promoting the gay agenda while lambasting the Christian ethos – all in the guise of a 30 minute sitcom.

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On last night’s episode gay character David, tells of his wonderful experiences with the Boy Scouts as a youth, all the way up to Eagle Scout, and of his desire to have his son be involved in scouting.  His “partner” Brian exclaims:  “I’m not letting our son be a part of the Boy Scouts!  Not that they’d let him anyway, not with two gay dads…. I just can’t believe you’d support an organization that excludes you!”

David speaks of the male role models he had in scouting and replies, “I support the virtues the Scouts teach – to be trustworthy, loyal, courteous, thrifty, and brave.  … The scouts taught me the life skills that I use to this day.”

Brian retorts:  “Maybe you can earn your hypocrisy badge.  …

David becomes a Cub Scout leader – but doesn’t tell the group that he’s a homosexual.  Brian derides the Scouts for “discriminating against gay people” and tells David:  “If you are so convinced they’re so accepting of a gay person, why don’t you have the meeting here – where you live with a man, who you take baths with.”

David has the Cub Scouts in his home and introduces Brian to the boys and the other leaders as, “my life partner, my fiancée.”  As the two men romantically hold hands in front of the boys he adds, “Just two men in love.”

The boys and the scout leaders look momentarily shocked, but then seem to accept their homosexuality as one of the scout leaders congratulates the two gay men.

Later, however, David finds out that one of the leaders reported him to the Boy Scouts of America and he receives a letter revoking his membership.  The tear-jerking scene is played out to depict poor, victimized David betrayed by the nasty, evil, intolerant, Scouts he had been devoted to.

David confronts the other scout leaders to find which one had reported him.  One leader says, “Dude, come on, I wish I could be gay.  So much more sex; so much less listening!  … No one cares about the gay thing.  The Scout Board’s voting on it in May.  They’re going to shoot it down – probably.  Who cares about any of the Scout rules.  What grown man would really want to live by these principles.”

David says that he would, adding:  “Loyal, trustworthy, kind.  When the Scouts can live up to the values they taught me, I’m happy to be of service.” 

David throws his Boy Scout sash filled with badges on the ground in front of the Cub Scouts.  One boy says, “How can you disrespect the Scouts like this?  I thought you loved them?”

David replies:  “I do, but they don't respect the way I love.”

By the end of the show, one of the Scout leaders admits he was the one who turned him in, telling David:  “Everyone knows you are everything an Eagle Scout ought to be. …  You are a perfect role model, but I don’t want you to be the role model for my son.  … I want him to be, you know – normal.”

Again, the scene is played out with empathy for the poor homosexual whose sinful lifestyle is not accepted as normal.

Yet, in truth, what parent would want their children to live such a deviant, illicit lifestyle?

It’s also interesting that when the Boy Scout traits are listed – loyal, trustworthy, etc. – a couple of traits are glaringly omitted.  A Boy Scout is to be reverent – and a Boy Scout is to be morally straight.

The show ends with David warning to all of us opposed to homosexual scout leaders – “Be prepared, “because change is coming.”

The immense implications of a collapse of the Boy Scouts are innumerable both for the Boy Scouts of America and for what America will have become. Are there leaders within the Boy Scouts that fear God more than man?  Are there 50? 40? 10 righteous ones? The answer hangs in the balance.

God calls homosexuality an abomination.  Why? Because He detests sin for it is an attack upon God’s Holy nature and upon His creation.  Homosexuality degrades and destroys the image of God within us.   

Sodom and Gomorrah should be kept in mind.

Perhaps the Boy Scouts will cave in to politically correct pressure as secular elites such as Ryan Murphy use their bully pulpits to relentlessly drown out voices for Truth.  However, they can never change the Truth.  They can shove it and stick it and force it  – but it will never be normal because it is ultimately human, sinful rebellion against a Holy God.

Watch the clip of David confronting the Scout leaders

 

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