[Consort]

The Boy Scouts are cutting their own throats. They are shortsighted and self destructive. Stupid good people are..........stupid.

[Steve_Seattle]

See my post 13. The think the Scouts know what is at stake. I do not think they are stupid at all.

[RonF]

The Boy Scouts are cutting their own throats. They are shortsighted and self destructive. Stupid good people are..........stupid.

The BSA has lasted 92 years with their current policies, and I don't see where their continued existence is threatened. I'm 50 years old and have spent more than 20 of those years as a registered member of the BSA, so I have spent some time observing the BSA closely.

I would think that stupidity and self-destructiveness would take less time than that to work. Perhaps you could expand on how you feel that the BSA is short-sighted, self-destructive, and stupid.

[MEGoody]

"Stupid good people are..........stupid."

Good people are stupid?

[yendu bwam]

The Boy Scouts are cutting their own throats. They are shortsighted and self destructive. Stupid good people are..........stupid.

Actually, Jimer, the Boy Scouts are growing rapidly in our area (growing troops in our town - an additional troop added last year). Why? Because there are a great many people (like me, for instance), who want their sons taught that belief in God is essential in life, that the Scout Law and Oath help our sons to become better people, that there is no place for homosexual men in close quarters with our sons on overnight campouts, etc. etc. You may not share these beliefs - and thus, Boy Scouts is not for you. For me, it's the best youth organization I know of for my sons.

[NCLaw441]

Jimer, all due respect, but when an organization, any organization, relies in part upon a belief in God, it is not stupid to ask those who belong to share that belief. Certainly no one is required to believe, but neither should Scouts be required to admit to its membership those who choose not to believe in an essential tenet of the organization. See above posts for examples that will not occur, such as a KKK member admitted to the NAACP, or a pro-lifer to NARAL. I understand you disagree, but calling those who disagree "stupid" does not advance your argument.