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Re:Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the... by nommm-nommm on Sunday September 11, 2016 @11:56AM (#12473940)
...and “no boy can grow into the best kind of citizenship without recognizing his obligation to God.”

Sorry, this goes against my core beliefs and I couldn't perosnally support or send a child to such an organization no matter what their other merits may be.

http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2015/11/02/beginning-next-y...

Re:Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the... by cbHXBY1D on Sunday September 11, 2016 @01:17PM (#12474396)
It really does depend on the troop.

I was a boy scout in the Bay Area and we had openly gay scouts and almost all of the kids and parents were atheist.

Re:Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the... by nommm-nommm on Sunday September 11, 2016 @02:43PM (#12474902)
Even if your local troop didn't follow the original policies and mission statement of the organization doesn't mean they don't exist. I don't want to support the organization even if a rogue troop doesn't follow the official mission statement.

From my link above:

>What’s new is that beginning Jan. 1, 2016, every rank from Tenderfoot to Eagle Scout (plus Eagle Scout palms) will include a “duty to God” requirement

Re:Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the... by SiVal on Sunday September 11, 2016 @05:18PM (#12475798)
I'm an atheist, and scouts made a wonderful contribution to my life. I put my atheist kids into it, and they had a great time, too. It's a wonderful organization and great troops are the norm, not "rogue". I don't know if there were any gay kids among these pre-teens, and I didn't notice anyone who ever seemed to care. I've worked with Mormons on community service events: some of the finest people I've ever known. I don't believe in their God, but I believe in them and have no trouble getting along. I've been involved with sports in a Catholic organization. I've worked at companies that had some policies I disagreed with but that were a net positive in the world, in my opinion, and I hope I was a net positive for the company.

I'm not aware of any perfect scouting-like groups nor of any imperfect ones that, all things included, would be better for my own boys than the scouting group across the street.

I don't have to take umbrage at everything that has some relationship to something I don't agree with. I guess there is more that one kind of "inclusiveness".