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- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Levi Strauss DEFUNDS Boy Scouts
- In-Reply-To: choffman@adobe.com's message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:21:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.222147.25836@adobe.com> choffman@adobe.com (Charles Hoffman) writes:
-
- Most of the front line leadership of the BSA could care less what
- orientation, or theistic beliefs a boy has. We are in the business
- of guiding boys into becoming moral and stable men. If a boy's
- family would like to subsitute "strong, stated and practiced
- philosophic beliefs" for "relgious beliefs" than I would gladly
- remove the phrase "Duty to God" and its ilk from the various BSA
- oaths and replace that with something more applicable.
-
- Can you do this without getting in trouble with BSA? I remember
- seeing on TV some family losing a lawsuit against BSA because BSA
- refused to let their kid join because he would not perform the oath
- saying he believed in God (because, for him, that would be lying in an
- oath). People's attitude seemed to be that the kid should just take
- the damn oath so he could join the scouts--after all that's what
- everyone else does. Some way to make moral men, by making them swear
- a dishonest oath before they can even join. I wonder whether
- Weinberger, Macfarlane, Ollie North, and all those other people who
- lied under oath in the name of morality got their start as boy scouts.
-
- I was interested in scouting as a teenager but refused to get join up
- on account of the religious stuff. (I did get involved with an
- explorer post which cared less about these things).
-