What else can you say about an organization that fought for the right to discriminate against atheists and gay people?
Oh, I know.
Ignoring the fact that the Boy Scouts (BSA) chose to discriminate , is suffering the consequences of it’s choice and could easily get out of it’s self dug hole if it decided to quit discriminating against atheists and gay people, you can say that the BSA is, in fact, the victim in the situation.
You can also insist that we must abandon our principles ASAP and cease denying the organization access to public funding, property and support because, well, much like reason kills gods dead, our principles will kill the BSA dead.
To that, I have to say “if only” as I’m of the mind that an organization that wants to teach children that one can be both a unprincipled bigot and a respected member of the community without suffering the consequences of one’s bigotry needs to die (of natural causes, of course).
How about you?
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It’s a sad day for scouting, but a great day for equal-rights groups. Scouting should be about excluding people, but embracing everyone.
I’ve been a scout for over 11 years now, both as a Girl Guide and now an Assistant. I also happen to be a bi and an atheist.
Since I live in Canada, these aren’t much of a problem for our group, even though it’s technically a Catholic organization. We have a silent agreement about my choices. They don’t force me to do anything religious (i.e; sing songs with the word god or jesus in it) and I don’t explain to them how the Universe was really created. If the children ask why I do that, I’ll explain why, but otherwise I keep it to myself.
I find it ironic that the Scouts think letting homosexual and non-christians will ruin scouting. If anything, it will increase thier numbers if they make it more secular, because more people would be willing to join.
Sure the more zealous-idiots will withdraw their children, but in my opinion that should be a good thing.
Scouting survived anti-segregation, they should survive this and come out of it even better.
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