I find this to be a terrible decision. The BSA has sufficient protections in place, including the policy that no Scout be left alone with a single Leader, to protect the boys. Therefore, this is purely about the obsession with homosexuality. I do not recall ever seeing a ranking of sins in the Bible. Since we are all sinners, I don't see the issue here. Is the church going to stop allowing divorced people to remarry? It was Jesus himself that said, "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." (Matthew 19:6b). Yet the church routinely allows divorced people to remarry. Why does the LCMS see reason to rank sins?

This, among other things, is causing me to reconsider whether I wish to remain a member of this denomination.