Decisions decisions!
Posted on 06/01/2013 7:56:59 PM PDT by 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.
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Are the out of the closet gay teens permitted to sexually harass other Scouts and have sex during scout get togethers?
When queers claim to be “out of the closet” they like sharing their perversion and harrassing everyone around them with their sexual perversion with every one around them. It’s hate to pop them in the nose.
Nah; as DU would post 17 pages of convoluted text to try to make his point.
D13 - not so much.
A Reader's Digest version of a Reader's Digest version of DU.
Are the out of the closet gay teens permitted to sexually harass other Scouts and have sex during scout get togethers?
When queers claim to be “out of the closet” they like sharing their perversion and harrassing everyone around them with their sexual perversion with every one around them. It’s hate to pop them in the nose if they become sexually aggressive with you.
“I was simply stating that the fine young men in the Boy Scouts deserve support in a difficult situation. They have been caught in the middle.”
I agree with you on this. Just like with the Girl Scouts the adults made some bad choices now the kids pay. I’d love to buy Girl Scout cooking yet I can not support/condone baby killers.
Now the same with the Boy Scouts. Their morals have gone by the wayside and I just can no longer be apart of this. They just pushed it too far.
No more than the Eternal Covenant of POLYGAMY has been removed from Doctrines & Covenant 132!!!
(The world can SEE how Mormonism treats a COMMAND from their GOD!)
We should start a legal defense fund for scouts who have been sexually abused and manipulated to go for help. Civil law suits. With enough pressure we could progress to getting criminal prosecution.
As we collect their property in settlements for victims we can turn it over to a real scout organization that is not centered about homo butt pleasures.
Elsie what the hell are all these names for? You are totally losing me with facts in this debate.
They have been caught in the middle.
I'd say SO!!
I just got up from mine!
And they've been WARNED!!!
"Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned;
and I will go still further and say, take this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord has given,
and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.
Brigham Young - JoD 3:266 (July 14, 1855)
I can see the commercials now
“Have you been sexually abused while being in a Boy Scout troop? Where you sexually harassed? Sexually discriminated against? Call 1-800-butt-boy and our team of lawyers will be glad to help” Really though I quite agree.
I don’t lay the eggs: I merely color them.
“I see that YOU were in church with ME today!
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Sorry to hear you had that liberal view in your church. So many churches are that way these days. It is why I do not attend any church at all. I feel a relationship with God doesn’t require indoctrination of a church. I like those small community churches but they don’t exist in my area. They are all social clubs now.
It’s a cutie! LOL!
What about #’s 15, 23, 41?
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