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- From: cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares)
- Newsgroups: rec.scouting
- Subject: Re: gays in scouting
- Message-ID: <1erl4fINN312@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 22:14:39 GMT
- References: <1992Nov21.185002.26805@oswego.Oswego.EDU> <1992Nov22.175612.4141@wkuvx1.bitnet>
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- In article <1992Nov22.175612.4141@wkuvx1.bitnet>, waltoml@wkuvx1.bitnet writes:
- > A small history lesson:
-
- An interesting addition to my stock of knowledge; thanks.
-
- > A gay or lesbian Scoutmaster cannot give out that imperiative without
- > it becoming a question (from some Scout) that "If God (in my church)
- > says that you're sinning, how can then I listen to you??"
- > The BSA is NOT denying the presence of lesbigays in our nation; it IS
- > denying them PERMISSION to serve as positive role models of behavior
- > for its youth members.
-
- The BSA had better figure out a more general answer to this question
- than simply banning people from leadership positions.
-
- A Catholic child might say this today to a married Protestant minister.
- A Quaker child might say this today to a veteran.
- A Mormon child of a few decades past might have said this to a black
- Scoutmaster.
- A Jewish child might say this to anyone eating a ham and egg breakfast.
-
- Certainly the BSA cannot be ready to pull, as role models, every person
- who is or does something to which some other religion objects.
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