Miranda Leitsinger for NBC News reported a story about Ryan Anderson, a
young man who had completed all the requirements for his Eagle Scout rank but
is being denied the achieved honor due to his scoutmaster’s refusal to sign off
on the award because Ryan is gay. The
Boy Scouts of America have a policy denying membership in the organization to
Gay boys and men. Ryan has been in
scouting since he was six years old—presumably before he (or anyone else) could
have identified his sexual orientation.
Troop 212 in Moraga California to which Ryan belongs is sponsored by the Moraga Valley Presbyterian
Church. Just across the Bay from San Francisco,
Moraga Valley Presbyterian is a member of the Presbyterian Church USA which,
like most liberal mainline denominations, is “gay friendly.” (In looking at their church website and
seeing its evangelical tone, I had initially thought that Moraga Valley
Presbyterian Church might have been affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in
America, a more conservative body, but its ties are with the larger and more liberal
group.) The reason I bring up the story of Ryan Anderson is that the same day I saw Ms. Leitsinger’s story, one of my regular readers sent me the following paragraph from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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