Boy Scouts deserve badge of intolerance

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 11/19/02 | Mary Schulken

[Just another Joe]

I guess every time this young man said the Scout oath he was just fudging a little.
I don't know this young man. He sounds like a very upright and forthright young man.
If he doesn't believe in G*D it's his business - until he joins an organization that has the requirement that you believe in a diety/higher power that is unknowable until you actually meet in person. (Usually after death)
Then it becomes the organization's business.

[Publius6961]

Yawn.

This is just an elaborate attempt to make it appear as if the perverts have or should have sympathetic company.
Pretty lame if you ask me.

How often will an atheist volunteer for a faith based enterprise? It seems almost contrived.

[Publius6961]

I'm so effen sick of this word.

Why?

I can think and make judgements every day.
That allows me to be intolerant of evil things. I am proud of that intolerance.

Where's the beef?

[Lizavetta]

If this idiot didn't believe in God, why did he join the Boy Scouts?

Exactly. I doubt the Boy Scout organization kept him in the dark about this and then sprung it on him AFTER he had done all the work.

[Lizavetta]

He taught kids leadership, - knowing full well during that time that a faith to a higher power is required to be a Boy Scout...

earned 37 merit badges - knowing full well during that time that a faith to a higher power is required to be a Boy Scout...

and racked up more than 1,000 hours of community service in one year. - knowing full well during that time that a faith to a higher power is required to be a Boy Scout....

If he signed on to the Boy Scouts, which makes clear at the time of signing on that a faith to a higher power is one of their requirements, and DID NOT live up to that requirement, who's the hypocrite?