Saying that the “Boy Scouts of twenty years ago is not the same as it is today,” Father Mathias Thelen of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Brighton has “disassociated” the parish and St. Patrick’s School from the scouting program. “It’s not the Church who has changed; it’s the Boy Scouts who have changed,” Mathias wrote in the Jan. 22, 2023, Bulletin of St. Pat’s Parish. Part of the “change” St. Pat’s can’t get behind is the Boy Scouts’ required “Citizenship in Society” merit badge for Eagle Scouts, which, according to the Diocese of Lansing, is “an exploration of ‘diversity, equity, … Continue reading St. Pat’s pulls out of Scouts over badge it says contradicts church teachings on sexuality