I was a Boy Scout. My children were scouts. Brother-in-law was a troop leader for over a decade, and my sister was a Silver Beaver. It's a private club. Scouts can have any rules they want, but all the troops I know of have been sponsored by churches. I don't know how they can avoid the problems that happen when you use schools for meetings.
I don't believe in a literal reading of the Bible. I accept Christian morality, but really don't have any interest in dogma. It seems trivial and childish to me. Take a look at the thread with people arguing over how many people were directly created in Genesis, and where the children of Adam and Noah got their mates. This is pathetic. These stories were borrowied from other cultures.
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