Re: Spirited boys in cub scouts revisited

In article <1138297037.589196.237020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"-L." <gentleboa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> dragonlady wrote:
> > That's WAY over the top.
>
> It's not over the top at all. They discriminmate against atheists,
> agnostics, and gay boys and men. They're bigots.
>
> >
> > The Boy Scouts are, in many respects, a great organization.
>
> On org that, through their policies, teaches boys to dicriminate
> against others. What would be really wonderful is if they became a
> Welcoming organization that truly embraced diversity.
>
>
> > They
> > provide something that no other organization does. People who disagree
> > with their policies make different choices about how to handle that fact
> > -- some, like me, choose to not get involved. Others choose to get
> > involved and enjoy what is positive about the organization, ignoring
> > those parts that they don't like. Still others choose to get involved
> > and activly lobby from within to get the organization to change.
> >
> > To accuse anyone who supports BSA of supporting bigotry is just wrong.
>
> Bigotry is bigotry. Just because an org "does good" in society (which
> is questionable, considering their policies) doesn't make them any less
> bigoted. If you support the organization, you support their stance on
> these issues. You can't separate the two because you want to.
>
> -L.
>

I guess I don't see the world as that starkly good and bad.

Like others, I'm not willing to tar the BSA as irredemably bad.

That particular policy is, and, I hope, will one day be changed -- but,
in the meantime, if some folks who disagree with the policy choose to be
involved anyway, I don't see, in that, an endorsement of the policy.

--
Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care
.

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