By: Jebediah
@Todd: The Eagle Project is all too often about the stuff that the kid knows or does already, so too many involve hiking, their school, their church or their little league fields. My Eagle project was...
View ArticleBy: Margarita
@Rafer Janders: Not to be confrontational about this, but why are you letting your son join an organization that discriminates? Speaking for myself, it’s a compromise of principles, pure and simple. If...
View ArticleBy: brashieel
As someone who did the whole Scouting thing all the way through Eagle, it really bothers me to see the national organization keep doubling down on this bullshit. Scouting does a lot of good for a lot...
View ArticleBy: merrinc
@Margarita: Speaking for myself, it’s a compromise of principles, pure and simple. If it were entirely up to me, I wouldn’t consider it. But it’s also up to another parent and the kid. There is a list...
View ArticleBy: Mnemosyne
@Rafer Janders: Ruling by diktat is not the best way to raise open-minded children, especially when we’re talking about children who are 12 and up, which is the age that Boy Scouts are. Voicing your...
View ArticleBy: Interrobang
Homophobia is male-directed misogyny, so before the Mor(m)ons and the Catholic Church can give up homophobia, they’ll have to work on their misogyny problem, and that’s never going to happen.
View ArticleBy: Scott
The Boy Scouts are a great outlet for a certain type of boy who doesn’t quite fit in with today’s public high schools. Unfortunately, once again, adults are screwing things up. In the US, the Mormons...
View ArticleBy: BethanyAnne
@Interrobang: Homophobia is male-directed misogyny, How the hell had I not seen that before? Wow. I was an Eagle Scout, before I started to transition. Now it doesn’t feel quite right to still claim...
View ArticleBy: wrog
I wonder who’s behind this Komen-like behavior on the board, and when they’ll finally cave. Short version: BSA used to be based in New Jersey. Then around 1980, they were forced to sell Schiff Scout...
View ArticleBy: Suzan
Mormons stopped discriminating against blacks as a result, in part, of its association with the boys scouts. Someone (ACLU?) sued the boy scouts for discrimination against blacks and the day the case...
View ArticleBy: Sock Puppet of the Great Satan
“Scouting has become an anachronism, its stance on sexual preference being only one example.” Scouting isn’t stagnant. BSA is stagnant; the Girls Scouts seem plenty dynamic and in the 21st century...
View ArticleBy: jonas
As a number of people have already pointed out, BSA is, and has been for generations, basically a community outreach service of the LDS church. Secondly, even if I weren’t creeped out a bit by the...
View ArticleBy: Rafer Janders
@Todd: Then shut the fuck up, and understand that most people don’t define their lives by how much they support gay guys, nor should they. No, I think you’ve defined yourself pretty well.
View ArticleBy: john b
much like any organization like this, a lot varies from troop to troop. there was very little in the way of religion in my boy scout troop. and most of what i got out of my involvement was leadership...
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