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[quote=Anonymous]I am the poster who started writing about my issues with the Boy Scouts and their exclusion of atheists. I want to say a couple of things and then I'm going to exit this thread. First of all, I am under no illusion that the Boy Scouts and especially individual troops are, on the whole, malevolent. I think that they do a lot of good for a lot of boys. While some troops are, of course, better than others, I don't doubt that, in this area in particular,  they do a lot of good. In fact, I think that the organization as a whole is just a couple of reforms from all ing their remaining major issues.

That said, the people suggesting that the discrimination against atheists is no big deal and that the BSA is acting like other religious organizations are missing the point. There is a BIG difference between promoting a specific belief system and excluding a specific belief system. It is the difference between, for example, the Mormons saying that only Mormons are welcome in our temple (perfectly normal) and saying that absolutely everyone except Jews are welcome in our temple, which is bigotry. As many people have pointed out, the BSA does not use its status as a private organization to promote any one single belief system. What people don't like to point out is that the BSA does use its status as a private organization to exclude, marginalize, and stigmatized one particular belief system.

I hope that they eventually do better. [/quote]

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