State leaders urge Boy
Scouts to uphold moral values
TX Values – David Walls – 2/2/2013
An initial group of Texas
As state elected officials,
we strongly encourage the Boy Scouts of America to stick with their decades of
support for family values and moral principles. Capitulating to the liberal
social agenda not only undermines the very principles of scouting, but sets the
stage for the erosion of an organization that has defined the American
experience for generations of young men.
Scouts begin each meeting
with an Oath, “to do my duty, to God and my country, to keep myself physically
strong, mentally awake and morally straight.” By caving in to pressure from the
social left, the national leadership would violate each of those principles.
Worse still, the contemplated
national policy would throw to the wolves chartering organizations and scout
troops that choose to stick with scouting’s historic and legally protected
policy. Left to defend themselves from legal attacks, we fear many churches and
other entities will choose to simply abandon scouting altogether – it will be
the safer course, and one hastening the organization’s eventual collapse.
Rest assured that while
adopting this ill-considered and wrongly devised policy might earn temporary
kudos, you can never do enough to appease those who want to see the scouts
robbed of their moral authority.
We urge you to be morally
and physically strong. We urge you to protect all that scouting has been, and
all that it can remain.
Letter Signers:
Texas
Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples
Congressman Kenny Marchant
(R-Bonham)
State Senator Ken Paxton
(R-McKinney)
State Senator Kelly Hancock
(R-Fort Worth)
State Senator Brian Birdwell
(R-Granbury)
State Senator Dan Patrick
(R-Houston)
State Senator Larry Taylor
(R-Friendswood)
State Senator Donna Campbell
(R-New Braunfels)
State Senator Robert Nichols
(R-Jacksonville)
State Representative
Giovanni Capriglione (R-Southlake)
State Representative Pat
Fallon (R-Frisco)
State Representative Scott
Sanford (R-McKinney)
State Representative Jeff
Leach (R-Plano)
State Representative Matt
Krause (R-Ft. Worth)
State Representative Ron
Simmons (R-Carrollton)
State Representative Steve
Toth (R-The Woodlands)
State Representative
Scott Turner (R-Frisco)
State Representative Phil
King (R-Weatherford)
State Representative Jodie
Laubenberg (R-Parker)
State Representative Tan
Parker (R-Flower Mound)
State Representative Van
Taylor (R-Plano)
State Representative
Stephanie Klick (R-Fort Worth)
State Representative Bill
Zedler (R-Arlington)
State Representative Bryan
Hughes (R-Mineola)
State Representative Drew
Springer (R-Muenster)
State Representative Dan
Flynn (R-Canton)
State Representative Cecil
Bell Jr. (R-Magnolia)
State Representative Matt
Schaefer (R-Tyler)
State Representative James
White (R-Woodville)
State Representative Rob Orr
(R-Burleson)
State Representative James
Frank (R-Wichita Falls
State Representative Dwayne
Bohac (R-Houston)
State Representative David
Simpson (R-Longview)
State Representative Greg
Bonnen (R-Friendswood)
State Representative Rick
Miller (R-Sugar Land
State Representative
Jonathan Stickland (R-Bedford)
State Representative
Charles Perry (R-Lubbock)
State Representative
Jason Isaac (R-Dripping Springs)
State Representative Larry
Phillips (R-Sherman)
State Representative Linda
Harper-Brown (R-Irving)
State Representative Dennis
Bonnen (R-Angleton)
State Representative Travis
Clardy (R-Nacogdoches)
State Representative Paul
Workman (R-Austin)
State Representative Ed
Thompson (R-Pearland)
State Board of Education
Member Ken Mercer (R-San Antonio)
State Board of Education
Member David Bradley (R-Beaumont)
Collin Country Commissioner
Pct 3 Chris Hill (BSA Circle Star District Chairman)
Collin County Judge Keith
Self
Collin County Commissioner
Pct 1 Matt Shaheen
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