Mormon couple barred from Scout leadership
21st October 2010
The Rev. Gabe Sylvia told The Charlotte Observer the two sons of Jeremy and Jodi Stokes can join the scouting program at Christ Covenant Church in Matthews. He said the parents are also welcome to become volunteers but cannot function as leaders even though Jeremy Stokes is an Eagle Scout.
“Based on a once-over, informal scan, it looked like the Stokes would be good additions to our leadership,” he said. “But when it became clear that they were Mormons, they could not become leaders in our pack. Mormonism is not consistent with historical Christianity.”
The irony of some do-it-yourself Protestant church calling some other group ‘not consistent with historical Christianity’ is fairly obvious.