Another reaction from a HSH reader came in: ”I started calling at the middle of the list. I did talk to some receptionists and there was at least one full mailbox. When I got to [...] the receptionist told me she was not to take any messages unless the person could recite the scout oath and law. Here it is:”
Scout Oath: On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; To help other people at all times; To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
Scout Law: A Scout is trustworthy, loyal helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.


Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter. 






For several years the leftists were obsessed with the membership policies of an ostensibly private country club in Georgia. They destroyed freedom of association in that instance by forcing the club to change its criteria for membership.
The Boy Scouts are next on the list. Churches are coming up soon.
Homosexuals perfer the term “gay” to “homosexual,” because the latter term kind of implies what they do together sexually. It is not pretty! So it is good, Father, that you point out that sodomy is behind gay relationships. These gay guys don’t just hold hands.
Thank you for your blog. It always makes me feel a little bit better when I read it.