Posted on 12/26/2002 11:55:37 AM PST by Paul Atreides
Moviemaker Steven Spielberg has further distanced himself from America's Boy Scouts because the organization has started banning atheists. The director used to be a leading scout celebrity advocate until new anti-gay laws turned him against the organization, and now he's furious with scouting leaders for adding more red tape. He says, "There is a movement inside the Boy Scouts now to stop kids from joining who are atheists, because of once again a couple of words in the Boy Scout motto, which I think is a tragedy. I resigned from the Boy Scouts because they excluded gays from scouting. They didn't when I was a kid but now I kept thinking they're following an armed forces policy about gays in the military, and I just think it's a terrible tragedy. It's robbing so many young creative kids of things that I was able to achieve by being a boy scout - making a home movie for the photography merit badge and getting bit by the bug and the boy scouts giving me my start. I credit them for giving me my start, but I couldn't abide by their rules and I had to say something and leave."
So, to thank them for their guidance and rules that helped me become successful, I would like to bestow upon them my new founded wrath.
Since I have grown up and joined the left wing, Hollywood crowd, I've taken up a the new sword and I now think Queers and the Anti Christ are more important to me. I would like to change the rules and corrupt every new Boy Scout so he will practice and accept this behavior as normal.
Thank you BSA
Oh! You must be referring to the parallel universe around the corner. My mistake.
You're quite right. As with a Scout's sexual orientation, the subject just doesn't come up unless brought up by the Scout himself. I guess it is kind of a 'don't ask, don't tell' set up. I think all of this stems from that case where the Scout made a public stink about it, and the BSUSA kicked him out.
Boy Scouts talk about 'reverence', but I've never noticed any requirement for any particular religious belief. The Scouts offer awards which could be earned for many different denominations. There are several Indian boys in our son's troop who are possible Hindi.
This is just another attempt to try to diminish the influence of the Boy Scouts nationally. Somehow I don't think folks outside of the media are going to take the opinion of Steven Spielberg very seriously
Cool! Looks like the ban is working pretty well.
Boy Scouts is many times safer for my sons than is my (Catholic) Church, with its priestly homosexual molestation and rape of a couple of thousand teenage boys. My Church should adopt Boy Scout policies - no homosexual men with teenage boys, two adults with kids at all times, and explicit warnings to boys about the dangers of teenage molestation. Of course, my Church can't even acknowledge the nature of the problem to begin with. Boy Scouts puts kids first (despite the relentless PC attacks). My Church puts the welfare of kids last.
The homosexual atheists club - Oh, I forgot, that's Hollywood.
You've got that right. Looks to me that the Boy Scouts are becoming the epicenter of the culture war.
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