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- From: stank@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Stan Krieger)
- Subject: Re: Levi Strauss DEFUNDS Boy Scouts
- Organization: Summit NJ
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 17:04:29 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.170429.20307@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec31.000435.22718@ads.com> <1992Dec31.222147.25836@adobe.com> <PHR.92Dec31162638@napa.telebit.com>
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- > 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.....
- > 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).
-
- All that is being discussed here has been discussed in the newgroup
- rec.scouting. Since rec.scouting does not appear on the Newgroups line,
- it's possible that the poster of the original news item is not aware
- of that newsgroup.
-
- To save ourselves a lot of bandwidth, the bottom line is that nothing
- gets solved or even agreed upon. Atheists challenge the fundamental
- assumption that a belief in a Supreme Being is necessary as a foundation
- for one's adult life; homosexuals challenge the assumption that their
- lifestyle is immoral. And nothing can get solved, agreed to, or even
- discussed inteliigently when points that each side considers axiomatic
- are in dispute.
- --
- Stan Krieger All opinions, advice, or suggestions, even
- UNIX System Laboratories if related to my employment, are my own.
- Summit, NJ
- smk@usl.com
-