Re:Girl Scouts Embraces STEM and Adds New Badges
by throwawayjava on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @09:41AM
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As a scout I agreed to it vacuously. No God, no obligation, and it's not that hard to fulfill a vacuous obligation. I'm sure that's not what they meant, but I figured "be friendly" and "tell kids that homosexuals are unclean rapists" [1,2,3] were also obviously contradictory in spirit.
If they get political cop-outs from their pledges, then so do I.
[1] unclean: "We believe that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the requirement in the Scout Oath that a Scout be morally straight and in the Scout Law that a Scout be clean in word and deed, and that homosexuals do not provide a desirable role model for Scouts.” https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-699.ZO.html
If they get political cop-outs from their pledges, then so do I.
[1] unclean: "We believe that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the requirement in the Scout Oath that a Scout be morally straight and in the Scout Law that a Scout be clean in word and deed, and that homosexuals do not provide a desirable role model for Scouts.” https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-699.ZO.html
[2] rapists: E.g., http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gordon-klingenschmitt-bo...
[3] To their credit, BSA has since modernized its policy and, hopefully, this remains a minority voice. But still, a large and vocal minority IME.