{"id":33818,"date":"2015-08-26T12:09:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T17:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=33818"},"modified":"2017-11-29T21:18:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T02:18:09","slug":"church-sticks-with-bsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2015\/08\/church-sticks-with-bsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Sticks With BSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/boyscoutsofamericauniform.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/boyscoutsofamericauniform-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"boyscoutsofamericauniform\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-33820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/boyscoutsofamericauniform-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/boyscoutsofamericauniform.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>At least for the moment, as announced in this statement posted at the Mormon Newsroom: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonnewsroom.org\/article\/church-to-go-forward-with-scouting-program\">Church to Go Forward with Scouting Program<\/a>.&#8221; So despite the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonnewsroom.org\/article\/church-re-evaluating-scouting-program\">sharply worded LDS statement released a month ago<\/a> at the Newsroom expressing frustration with BSA for the timing and content of the decision to allow gay scout leaders to serve and despite Internet rumors that an LDS-BSA divorce was imminent, this troubled marriage will continue, at least for now. How long will this last given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/home\/2847995-155\/most-utah-mormons-want-their-church\">declining support for BSA among the LDS rank and file<\/a>? And what does this mean for LDS youth and youth programs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least for the moment, as announced in this statement posted at the Mormon Newsroom: &#8220;Church to Go Forward with Scouting Program.&#8221; So despite the sharply worded LDS statement released a month ago at the Newsroom expressing frustration with BSA for the timing and content of the decision to allow gay scout leaders to serve and despite Internet rumors that an LDS-BSA divorce was imminent, this troubled marriage will continue, at least for now. How long will this last given declining support for BSA among the LDS rank and file? And what does this mean for LDS youth and youth programs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":33820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/boyscoutsofamericauniform.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33821,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33818\/revisions\/33821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}