Boy Scouts of America continue to ban gay people - Page 2

They can be backwards if they want to be. It's alienating a large number of scout troops who are in favor of allowing openly gay members, and will likely open the door for a competing, more secular organization to take hold.

quote KR_1250

include religious dogma in scientific education,

The rest of your post is either factual, hyperbolic or subjective, but this is just plain wrong. The courts have repeatedly ruled that creationist theory has no place in public science education, so I have no idea where you're getting this from.

I have to say, as much as I'm 100% for some kind of religious education (done in a neutral manner, preferably) or religious studies, it's not really efficient to mandate it. Especially within science; science and religion are separate entities entirely and have little relation to one another really.

I wonder how successful the Boy Scouts are in Southern areas that already have a lot of homophobia present?

I guess there's talk about allowing openly gay people to be in the Boy Scouts of America. Apparently they trialed letting individual units decide if they wanted to allow openly gay people to be members but it failed pretty horribly. A group of leaders with the BSA will be voting within the next week or so as to whether to lift the ban, and there's a variety of conflicting sources as to whether or not the idea of letting openly gay members (both adult and youth) in is supported by the majority of Boy Scouts members. source

Given that a good majority of Boy Scout troops are partially sponsored by church organizations, and it seems that a lot of the Boy Scout activity is in the South compared to here, is anyone else a bit wary about what the results will be? It doesn't seem to make much sense to me to ban gay people; they already ban sexual activity during scouting-related activities by straight people, so why would it be more of a problem with gay people? Seems pretty moot seeing as the part they seem so afraid of isn't allowed as it is.

To be fair, they're a private organization. They can ban whoever they want from their ranks. Whether it's a moral or good way to be teaching young boys to think (discriminatory, much?) is another story...

See, that's always the part that confused me. The organization is primarily dedicated to promoting the welfare of young (<18 y/o) boys... As far as I know, most boys don't stay in the Boy Scouts past puberty (hence why Eagle Scouts are relatively uncommon), so why does sexual orientation have anything to do with anything? Even if it was primarily adult men, sexuality isn't what the organization is about...so who cares?

quote harhis23

Gay people today consider themselves as "third sex" meaning not boys and not girls. For that reason, they shouldn't be allowed to join BOY scout. They better start their own Gay scout group or third sex scout.

Mass generalizations ahoy!