Contact: Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, 312-324-3787, americansfortruth@gmail.com

NAPERVILLE, Ill., May 21, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), issued the following statement regarding the Boy Scouts of America's (BSA) vote this week on allowing openly homosexual members:

"Americans For Truth calls on Christian and conservative philanthropists and patriotic corporations to step up to the plate and publicly pledge to the Boy Scouts to make up financially for any losses in donations the BSA would face by maintaining its existing 'Morally Straight' policy.

"Homosexual activists pressured major corporations like UPS to stop giving to the Scouts -- ironically, in the name of 'nondiscrimination.' This caused BSA leaders to panic and start abandoning their common-sense policy prohibiting openly homosexual Scouts.

"It's time to end the financial tyranny of morally-compromised corporate liberals. We call on conservatives who have been blessed financially by God to put their money to good use -- by neutralizing the Left's 'corporate blackmail' against the beleaguered Scouts.

"The BSA must be saved in spite of its own politically correct leadership. The Scouts are under pressure from large corporate donors and CEOs on their leadership team who themselves have capitulated to the Homosexual Lobby. On Thursday -- after national outrage delayed the BSA's potential pro-homosexual sellout -- local Scout Councils from across America will meet in Texas to vote on a 'compromise' BSA proposal that would allow openly homosexual Boy Scouts. [See Eagle Scout John Stemberger's open letter to the BSA delegates urging a "NO" vote.]

"This issue is much bigger than the Scouts. America's moral foundations are crumbling under the weight of well-financed 'gay' pressure groups and a popular culture that displaces 'reverence' for God (to quote the Scout Law) with anarchic hedonism. Our boys are vulnerable to well-marketed LGBT cultural advocacy that redefines sexual immorality and deviancy as a 'civil right.'

"Anyone with a moral backbone understands the dangerous folly of a supposed 'Morally Straight' boys organization admitting members who embrace a sexual perversion disproportionately linked to HIV and other sexually-transmitted diseases. This is one Pandora's Box the Scouts must not open.

"Where are the conservative heroes or Christian companies like Chick-fil-A or who will put their money where their beliefs are by bravely stepping forward to fund and save the Scouts?"