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The Scouts Versus the Ugly Moods of 2013

mkrug Wrote: Feb 12, 2013 4:30 PM

As the article stated (truthfully), this was settled a while back.(RIP Scouting For All). The Scouts are under no pressure legally to change their standards. All of the pressure is being generated by a small minority who wish to bend the Scouts to their own vision. Of what THEY think it should like, never mind what Baden Powell set up. So what that United Way cuts off funding? I stopped supporting United Way a long time ago. There are tons of community organizations who provide locations and funding for Scout troops all over the country. Sure, Scouting may lose some members but I would rather have a smaller organization that sticks to and stands by it's founding principles than participate in one that has no principles at all.

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The Scouts Versus the Ugly Moods of 2013

The Boy Scouts of America got front-page ink, as we say in the newspaper trade, for their currently postponed meditations on the topic of admitting avowed gays to membership.

Word had leaked out that the Scouts were considering a local option solution to the vexed question of their supposed right to determine who can become a member and who can't. At a top-drawer meeting in Irving, Tex., the topic proved too vast and complex for immediate resolution. Consultation and deliberation will take place prior to May meeting of Scouts' national council.

I spoke of the Scouts' "supposed" right to oversee their...

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