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Re: Would-be Eagle Scout denied award for his sexuality
« Reply #29 on: January 12, 2013, 11:55:15 PM »
Are you sure it's denial? It could be constipation.

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Re: Would-be Eagle Scout denied award for his sexuality
« Reply #30 on: May 22, 2013, 10:16:11 PM »
Without starting a new topic I saw in the news today that The Boy Scouts of America is actually reconsidering their stance of not allowing homosexuals into their little club. Atheists are still out, though.

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Re: Would-be Eagle Scout denied award for his sexuality
« Reply #31 on: May 23, 2013, 10:03:54 AM »
Yeah, I believe they are supposed to decide later this afternoon.  I am one of about 7,000 Eagle scouts who signed a petition to try to motivate some sort of change.  https://www.scoutsforequality.com/ I'm optimistic that they will at least allow homosexual boys membership, if not adult leaders.
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Re: Would-be Eagle Scout denied award for his sexuality
« Reply #32 on: May 23, 2013, 10:59:44 AM »
Yers in ateist, hows u n it?

;)

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Re: Would-be Eagle Scout denied award for his sexuality
« Reply #33 on: May 23, 2013, 02:47:39 PM »
I wasn't at the time. 

I actually didn't know that they had a formal ban on atheist "members and adult leaders", but I went and double checked.  You are right.
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Re: Would-be Eagle Scout denied award for his sexuality
« Reply #34 on: June 04, 2013, 07:36:41 PM »
My 12 year-old nephew was kicked out of Scouts for expressing doubts about god.  I hate the BSA despite the recent semi-shift in their policy against gay people. 
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Re: Would-be Eagle Scout denied award for his sexuality
« Reply #35 on: June 04, 2013, 08:06:02 PM »
Girl Scouts, on the other hand, are accepting of diversity and an all-around better organization. Plus cookies-- what's not to like?
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Re: Would-be Eagle Scout denied award for his sexuality
« Reply #36 on: June 04, 2013, 09:54:29 PM »
Quote from: Betelnut on June 04, 2013, 07:36:41 PM
My 12 year-old nephew was kicked out of Scouts for expressing doubts about god.  I hate the BSA despite the recent semi-shift in their policy against gay people.
Gee, a 12 year old questioning.  How strange.
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Re: Would-be Eagle Scout denied award for his sexuality
« Reply #37 on: June 04, 2013, 10:59:58 PM »
I was 12-13 when I began to seriously question the Bible and Biblegod. My sister was 12, I have no idea how old my brother was but it was probably around the same age. It's probably more common than not.

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Re: Would-be Eagle Scout denied award for his sexuality
« Reply #38 on: June 05, 2013, 10:53:09 AM »
back in the 70's and 80's I did quite a bit in Scouting in the UK as a leader and I noticed even then that the lads who were joining looked awfully blank when we had to discuss the promise. Even back then the youth of the day had not real interest in religion!
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Re: Would-be Eagle Scout denied award for his sexuality
« Reply #39 on: June 05, 2013, 04:58:19 PM »
Children rarely are. When I worked at the YMCA[1] there was a weekend camping[2] trip and let me tell you; religion was absolutely not on many of the teens minds. Two other things were: drugs and sex.

I wasn't a very good chaperone (I didn't partake in the drugs part ;))

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 1. agnostic-atheist at the time; they didn't know
 2. log cabins; not much of "camping" there
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Re: Would-be Eagle Scout denied award for his sexuality
« Reply #40 on: June 05, 2013, 06:10:35 PM »
Quote from: Nick on June 04, 2013, 09:54:29 PM
Quote from: Betelnut on June 04, 2013, 07:36:41 PM
My 12 year-old nephew was kicked out of Scouts for expressing doubts about god.  I hate the BSA despite the recent semi-shift in their policy against gay people.
Gee, a 12 year old questioning.  How strange.

Well, actually, his folks are both pretty much atheists so not that strange!
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Re: Would-be Eagle Scout denied award for his sexuality
« Reply #41 on: June 05, 2013, 10:42:15 PM »
heh.  the way the thread title is written it sounds like there are sexuality awards and for some unknown reason the eagle scout was denied his.  Like, he failed to get the sexuality badge.  For a moment I thought maybe I quit the scouts too soon.
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Re: Would-be Eagle Scout denied award for his sexuality
« Reply #42 on: June 05, 2013, 11:41:11 PM »
Quote from: The Gawd on January 08, 2013, 08:30:15 AM

Also I felt terrible yesterday, one of my coworkers, good guy, is a pastor of a small church. We get along well at work and often times get lunch together. He knows I'm atheist, I know hes a pastor. But yesterday I ask him bout getting lunch, he suggests Chic-Fil-A. Damn, I did not even want to get into this discussion as yesterday was going nice and easy and I was avoiding anything to ruin it, so I got Chic-Fil-A. And all I could think about was my $7 going to stop civil rights. So I plan on asking a gay friend for forgiveness.

Maybe this will make you feel a little better about your lunch date.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/01/chick-fil-a-ceo-and-gay-activist-are-now-friends/

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Re: Would-be Eagle Scout denied award for his sexuality
« Reply #43 on: June 06, 2013, 10:47:16 PM »
Quote from: screwtape on June 05, 2013, 10:42:15 PM
heh.  the way the thread title is written it sounds like there are sexuality awards and for some unknown reason the eagle scout was denied his.  Like, he failed to get the sexuality badge.  For a moment I thought maybe I quit the scouts too soon.

..... It is a bit ambiguous.
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Re: Would-be Eagle Scout denied award for his sexuality
« Reply #44 on: June 07, 2013, 06:57:17 AM »
Quote from: LoriPinkAngel on June 05, 2013, 11:41:11 PM
Maybe this will make you feel a little better about your lunch date.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/01/chick-fil-a-ceo-and-gay-activist-are-now-friends/

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LOL @ Lunch date.

Yes, this does make me feel better about eating Chic-Fil-A that one time. And now I can without guilt go back. But the article sounded like the guy who gets busted telling racist jokes and responds with, "I have a black friend!"
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