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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Leaving aside the issue of whether OP is a troll, I am not going to let my son join the Boy Scouts.  The activities are great but, fortunately, there are plenty of opportunities to engage in similar activities without the Boy Scouts (e.g. 4H).  More importantly, while it is good that, after years of intense pressure, the Boy Scouts are finally in the process of addressing their overt discrimination against homosexuals, they continue to be a non-sectarian religious organization that discriminates against atheists and, ironically, has encouraged atheist scouts to lie about their beliefs in order to remain in the organization.

Nope.  Not for my son.[/quote]

I think discrimination against atheists is not the right interpretation here. Scouts clearly has a religious basis (people saying above that it doesn't aren't paying attention).  The Boy Scout oath begins "On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law."

Scouts discriminates in the same way the Washington Ethical Society "discriminates" against Christians--it's a private club that is rooted in a belief you don't share. I don't think that is worthy of any outrage (I agree with you on it's past problems with treatments of homosexuals btw).[/quote]

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