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- From: emg@Metaphor.COM (Mike Greenawalt)
- Newsgroups: rec.scouting
- Subject: Re: Gays you miss the point.
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 17:57:23 GMT
- References: <1992Oct30.200054.7518@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <1992Oct31.161009.21489@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <8p0pp+p@lynx.unm.edu>,<1992Nov3.170807.3262@usl.edu> <1992Nov3.195530.5506@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov3.195530.5506@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, smackinnon@mta.ca writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov3.170807.3262@usl.edu>, mxc1059@usl.edu (Carroll Matthew) writes:
- |> >What about starting a gay boyscout troop? Would that work?
- |> >:
- |> >
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- |> I do not think that that would work. I have two reason why I think so.
- |> First by putting people in two groups, you are not helping the
- |> situation. You are shrouding the "other side" and no one learns for the
- |> other group about how they behave, and hence you do not become toleratent of
- |> the issuse, but you ignore it, hoping it does not bother you.
- |> Secondly How do you start a gay Boyscout troop, if you are in an
- |> area that does not tolerate homosexuals. It could cause aliot of problems
- |> if you ask a younge boys to make a choice, that He(assuming boy scouts,but the
- |> same would be true for girls) is gay, and that he wants to join this new troop.
- |> Coming out is a big step, and is a step that you can't go back on. You just
- |> can't force someone to make that kind of choice just because you don't want
- |> that kind of person in your troop.
- |> Qshawn mackinnon
- |> Time lord(appentice), Chief scout,
- |> CG
- |> Terra, Sol.
- |> Ba weep granna weep ninni ba
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- At what age does the typical gay male know that he is gay? I would think that
- at ages 11-12-13 or so, boys are just beginning to find out who/what they are.
- I doubt they can make a lifetime decision at that age.
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- | Mike Greenawalt | emg@metaphor.com |
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