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One pressing issue that Boy Scouts are facing with this new era of acceptance is the loss of some of the churches that support them. This is happening mostly in North Carolina with the North Carolina Values Collation. This group, according to the Miami Herald, "has lobbied for churches to abandon their Boy Scout troops for “faith friendly alternatives,” such as Trail Life USA."  One specific incidence is a Mooresville church, called Coddle Creek Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, ousting its troop. the Miami herald states this as "Troop 169 has been told it is no longer welcome at Coddle Creek Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. Ditto for Cub Scout Pack 169. Both the troop and the pack are part of the Piedmont Council of Boy Scouts based in Gastonia." While my other article from Christian Daily states this problem as "Coddle Creek Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church has told BSA's Troop 169 as well as Cub Scout Pack 169 that the church can no longer be their home base." The two article are different here in the point that the Miami Herald makes the church seem like the enemy while the Christian Daily makes it seem like the church made the right choice. Both articles give quotes from the pastor to why the church is not wiling to have the boy scout troop under their wing. However another difference is when it comes to the church slowing the troop to stay with them for a while until they get somewhere new to stay. The Miami Herald states this as "Shoger said the church would fulfill its current charter agreement, allowing the troop time to find a new home elsewhere in the community. The church did not say how long the agreement would be extended." While the Christian daily states this as "In addition, Pastor Shoger said the church will give Troop 169 some time to find its new home in the area. A cub scout official reportedly said they have until the end of 2017 to do that." The difference here is that the Miami Herald makes this seem very contractual and forced while the Christian Daily makes this seem like its the kindness of the church. As we can see from these two articles is that the Miami Herald has more of a negative view of what the church in Mooresville did while the Christian Daily held more a supportive view.

change in narratives

Further research in to the topic I can see there are two main narratives other than the ones that I have discovered. These are the liberal narratives of the event verses the conservative narratives of the event. The liberals support the boy scouts in there change while the conservatives do not. I think that looking at these narratives versus the narratives of the feminist and the Christians will help me be more objective.

BSA now accepting transgenderism

Confusion, controversy, and media explosion is rampant since the Boy Scouts of America has announced its changes in it policies about homosexuals and transgender. Sides were taken quickly as feminist, transgender and homosexuals rejoice at this change, while some Christians are up in arms with what is happening to the organization that they support. The most recent news is the BSA's choice to change their policy on how they recognize gender for their more gender exclusive groups like Boy scouts and girl scouts. They had changed it from Identifying how the children are born as on their both certificates to instead what their birth certificate say they identify their gender as. This allows children like Joe Maldonado, who is a boy who was born a female, to join the cub pack that they want to. Originally when the cub pack 20 had found out that Joe was a transgender they had banned him. However, with this new policy Joe can join the pack with no problems at all. The feminist/transgender people were up in arms at first viewing this ban as discrimination against them. However, when the policy was made they were rejoiced that now it is no longer a problem of discrimination.
Some Christians are really up in arms about this because transgenderism is something that they cannot support, which is what this new policy is making them do. Just as their argument of "God hates the gays" backed their reasoning to not let the homosexuals in to Scouting, "God hates evil, He hates Perversion" is their new argument. These Christians take verses from the Bible out of context and say here is proof of our values and why we say what we say. There are also some churches who have stopped supposing the Boy Scouts because of their choice to include transgender children in their programs. In the middle of these two sides is the Christians who think a little less drastically about this choice that BSA has made. I am one of these Christians and I think that the Christians who are saying "God hates (insert minority here)" are wrong. God does not hate anyone he instead hates what is against him which is homosexuality and transgenderism. I think that even though these things are wrong we should still allow the children to have a chance. Being a Christian supported organization, BSA should be able to reach into these children's lives and make an impact on them. So as one of these Christians am I entirely for the feminist, homosexuals,  and transgender people, no not entirely I do not agree with their life choices, however, I am in no place to deny them their right to join the Boy Scouts. And for the other side the more "radical" Christians I cannot support what they say either because what they say does not truly represent my values.