Thanks to SGT Jeff, we can go to the site he left and sign a petition to end this persecution. Read the background; the President of William and Mary and his wife have a history of going after Christians.

Given the predominant religious faith in the U.S., it should be no surprise that most of these have Christian crosses on display. Generally, they are permanently mounted. However, recently, at a camp owned by my Council, a cross was taken down and burned.

The BSA’s standards for worship spaces is now (and has been for years) that no religious symbol is to be permanently displayed if the camp has only one chapel. The symbols of various faiths, as required, can be made up in a portable form and brought out and used as appropriate for the service being conducted; what’s appropriate and how it should be used is pretty much up to the people running the service and whether it’s meant to be an inter-faith service or for one service. Permanent symbols can only be put up if the chapel is to be dedicated to one specific faith, and that’s not going to be done if there’s only one chapel.

So, what to do with all these crosses? The cross in question was made up of locally-cut logs and was too big to use as a portable symbol. My council called up the Catholic archdiocese, and they suggested that it be burned – privately, reverently, and completely. It took quite a while to find someone willing to do it, but it got done. When the rest of the Council’s members found out, a number got quite irate.

I encourage visits to our capitol and especially the monuments where the marble is inscripted with quotes that person spoke.It won’t take you long to figure out these were Christian men whose intention it was to give honor to God.

If you have to ask which God, or whose God, you haven’t done enough reading.