Boy Scouts Remain Adamant About 'Duty To God'

newsmax ^ | Sandy Fitzgerald

[Morgana]

The Boy Scouts of America will likely continue banning atheists and other non-believers from their troops, even though it now accepts openly gay members among its ranks.

"I don't see that happening, at least not in the immediate future," said Neil Polzin, an Eagle Scout fired from his job in 2009 as a Boy Scout camp aquatics director, after he admitted he is an atheist.

"The focus has always been on the Scouts' discrimination against gays and it seems atheists were always on a back burner or not discussed at all," Polzin told The Christian Century.

Since May 23, when the Scouts voted to allow gay members – but not troop leaders – among their ranks, major organizations for nonbelievers have condemned their continuing exclusion from the organization.

Part of the Scouting oath is to "do my duty to God and my country," which many atheists prefer be changed to "good and my country," a request the BSA has refused.

In addition, some atheist children have been asked to leave troops after it was revealed they did not believe in God. There have been lawsuits filed, but the Supreme Court has ruled that the Boy Scouts is a private organization that can make its own membership rules.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Really? So the LDS should support Sodomites?

[laplata]

It’s none of your business. Maybe I do, maybe I don’t. LOL

[Clint N. Suhks]

I feel sorry for the young men in the BSA.

[laplata]

I feel sorry for the young men in the BSA.

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Good for you. You should have some sympathy for them.

[Clint N. Suhks]

So you’re a pro Sodomite BSA Supporter?

[laplata]

I support the Boy Scouts.

[dfwgator]

Their “God” is their corporate sponsors.

[Clint N. Suhks]

I support the Boy Scouts.

You support the "gay" scouts.

[laplata]

I support the Boy Scouts.

You support the “gay” scouts.

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I can see you walking up to a 14 year old Boy Scout and calling him a sodomite. I bet you would.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Thanks for confirming you supporting the gay scouts.

[laplata]

Yep, I can see you calling a 14 year old Boy Scout a sodomite.

You’re a pious jerk.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Yep, I can see you calling a 14 year old Boy Scout a sodomite. You’re a pious jerk.

Defending the "honor" of your Sodomite friends are You at their your age? Only the APA's can't tell you that.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

So, wonder what happens when a muslim joins...

Muslims have been able to join the scouts since at least the 1950's.

[Clint N. Suhks]

So you believe homosexual is normal?

[Tau Food]

The organization has already collapsed, needlessly.

[laplata]

You won’t even admit you’d call a 14-15 year old boy Scout a sodomite. Coward.

[DaxtonBrown]

he first God fearing Scout who says “gays are an abomination” gets booted.

[kaehurowing]

They do realize the horse is out of the barn, don’t they?

[laplata]

You’d get your butt kicked if you went to a Boy Scout meeting and called those boys Sodomites. I don’t think their parents would like that at all.