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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]b]When an organization excludes a group of people from membership that's discrimination.  Regardless of what they teach or talk about in scouting, the organization as a whole has discriminatory practices[/b].  [/quote]

so? It's perfectly legal. [/quote]

Legal and ignorant and bigoted. [/quote]

Not necessarily. If I want to start an organization of tall thin brunettes and I purposely exclude short fat red heads, is this "bigoted?"  Or do you just like throwing around the word-du-jour?[/quote]

Well, if there was such an organization, I'd be happy to discuss it.  But let's keep the focus on the Boy Scouts, and not go down these imaginary paths when we have a real organizatio to discuss.  The Boy Scouts apparently believe that gay people are not "morally straight," not "clean in word and deed," and that "homosexuals do not provide a desirable role model for Scouts."  That's a bigoted philosophy.

And before you start, the definition of a bigot is someone who "is intolerant of any ideas other than his or her own, especially on religion, politics, or race."  Excluding people based on sexual preference, and claiming that they are immoral, fits perfectly within that definition.  [/quote]

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