Bryan

OldGrayEagle & NJCubScouter: First, thanks for your courteous and thoughtful answers. These are extremely sensitive topics. Second, St. Joseph's and St. Francis are still there and I was actually born at St. Francis. The local WD Boyce Council office is just a few blocks from St. Francis. The issue of blood in meat, as far as a Christian is concerned, is resolved at the slaughterhouse in my opinion. The meat packers put a water hose into the major arteries, and hose out almost all of the blood in a slaughtered carcass. None of us is perfect. All have sinned. I believe t

Iraq's "border mates" are Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The entire industrialized world is dependent, to one degree or another, upon oil from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Hussein is not Hitler because I can't picture a scenario in which he could acquire sufficient power to conquer the world. But with the chemical weapons that he has already used against his own civilians, he could kill thousands and thousands of civilians in a single day. Due to his past aggressions, American troops are now stationed by the thousands in Kuwait, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Many of them were Scouts not very long a

Let's review. The Hussein regime tortures political dissidents and their families to death. Children are tortured to death in front of their parents to extract confessions. Imagine the outrage if George W. Bush did this to the anti-war protesters and their families. The Hussein regime has used chemical weapons in genocidal attacks against the Kurdish and Shiite minorities. Thousands of defenseless men, women and children have died horrible deaths. Think of the screams from around the world if George W. Bush did the same to African-Americans and Hispanics. Instead of us

Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone. In case there are those here who are not aware, there has been a lot of research into homosexuality and very little of it serves to encourage the acceptance of homosexuals as Scout leaders. The average homosexual man has had roughly 250 sexual partners in his lifetime. He is many times more likely to contract HIV and other STDs. He is roughly seven times as likely as a heterosexual man to have sexual relations with teenagers who are under the legal age of consent. He is much more likely to become alcoholic or addicted to drugs. If you need

This is my first message on this talkboard. Wish me luck. Confusion about this issue is quite common, and I hope that I can provide some illumination. For those who are skeptical about Scriptural teachings due to some laws from Leviticus that aren't being followed, please read Acts 15:24-29. The laws in Leviticus were intended for the Jews. By the time of Paul, there were new converts to Christianity who had never been Jewish. They wanted to know whether they needed to be circumcised. In effect, they were told that they didn't need to become Jews in order to become Christians.