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[quote=Anonymous]Ugh...this thread has now teetered between the D-bag that started this thread by fondly remembering how he used to mock other kids at his school for being "dorks" and how he's worried that his kid will somehow question his manliness if he learns archery (?)....and the d-bag homophobe that thinks it "smart" not to allow gay men near kids.

For anyone rational that's reading....my son does boy scouts, as did several of my nephews.  They are all very pro gay rights.  They happen to all be moderately religious, but in my experience the troop itself did not advocate any particular religion.  The cub scouts had a "duty to god" requirement, but it was done at home with families.  For that reason, I can see where atheists might not be comfortable with it.

Contrary to a PP, I don't think an organization that has a religious aspect is bigoted simply because it has a religious aspect.  That would be like saying that every religion is bigoted, because an atheist would not feel comfortable belonging to a religion.  Condemning every religious group seems like a position that is bigoted against people who are religious, so it all seems like a very circular argument.  For what it's worth, my husband is an atheist, so I don't think I am particularly bigoted against atheist people.  (As the saying goes, "some of my best friends are atheist!"  But, really, they are.)

Boy Scouts is a bit different than Girl Scouts in this regard -- GS explicitly says that if a child is not religious, or comes from a faith tradition that does not recognize a "God," it is perfectly okay for the child to replace the word "God" in the GS law with another word (like "humanity" or "charity" or "morality" or anything else that is consistent with the other aspects of the Girl Scout law/promise -- I don't think you could say "Money" or "Self Interest" or something like that).  [/quote]

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