[KC_for_Freedom]

Why doesn't this fine coalition start an organization of its own? Mayhaps parents would not send them their kids?

[hsalaw]

"Why doesn't this fine coalition start an organization of its own?"

Good idea: rather than the Boy Scouts, they can call themselves the Homosexuals Scouting for Boys. Oh wait; they already have that organization: NAMBLA.

[Ole Okie]

Why doesn't this fine coalition start an organization of its own? Mayhaps parents would not send them their kids?

I know you're asking a rhetorical question, but it's a good one.

What parents would send their kids to such an organization?

[Mr. Mojo]

Why doesn't this fine coalition start an organization of its own?

Because they're not the slightest bit interested in Scouting; their sole concern is the destuction of everything decent and moral in America.

[zipper]

Several of you asked in one form or another "Why don't they just start their own organization?" I read some good comments from all of you. My short answer is: I don't think they actually want to be scouts-- they just want to tear down the institution of Scouting.

I'll put it another way.

First a short anecdote-- when I was a teenager, and a scout, one of my good friends who was not a scout and didn't understand scouting said to me in a accusatory tone: "the Boy Scouts are just a paramilitary group". At first I was revulsed, because I knew he intended it as an insult. But the more I thought about it, he was of course right. And furthermore, it is something to be proud of! Scouts teach survival skills, leadership, self-responsibility, self-discipline; they wear paramilitary uniforms, they salute, they take an oath, they play "capture the flag", they utilize rank and chains-of-command, etc.

The Boy Scouts is about making "boys" into "men" through mentorship and the teaching of essential masculine and leadership skills-- and what could be more masculine, what institution encourages and rewards leadership more than the U.S. military?

So what the ungodly atheist/gay alliance desires is not to form their own scouting organization, because they are opposed to, or are uninterested in, the core values of Scouting. What they want is to be accepted as equals in society; and the only way they can achieve this as their end-goal is to tear down, from within, the most valued and sacred institutions that morally oppose their behaviors and/or character-- churches and scouting being two of them. They have already partially succeeded with the military (thanks to Clinton) and the Lutheran church.

I can't think of any two finer institutions than Scouting or the U.S. military. I hope I can do as much for them as they did for me.

zipper

Class of Eagles '74; Lt Col USAF/ANG/AFR (retired)