Comments on: Boy Scouts: Enemy of Equality http://bligbi.com/2009/01/27/boy-scouts-enemy-of-equality/ The ramblings of a non-apologetic militant atheist mom doing time in the lonestar state on atheism, religion, feminism, politics and current events Fri, 01 May 2009 15:29:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Silver Fox http://bligbi.com/2009/01/27/boy-scouts-enemy-of-equality/comment-page-1/#comment-1823 Silver Fox Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:27:58 +0000 http://bligbi.com/?p=2033#comment-1823 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. 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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