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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (100866)4/10/2005 10:44:13 AM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
This is one of those topics that if you don't intuitively see the answer to it, you will remain unconvinced by a logical response.

Our public institutions are built by us, and for us, for our benefit. Organizations like the Boy Scouts leverage that benefit far beyond what we pay for directly. If the majority of us want to allow the Boy Scouts to meet at the schools, everybody benefits and nobody gets hurt. Even those of you who eschew the Boy Scouts benefit, because they teach moral values that make for better behavior all around.

I don't know at what age gay people start internalizing that belief and life style. Certainly most youngsters talk about sexuality long before they have any drive one way or the other, and many experiment childishly and innocently out of curiosity. If people are genuinely gay, that's OK by me. However, it is NOT OK for people to be promoting that lifestyle in our schools and organizations simply to validate their own choices or predilections.

The same goes for atheists. The majority of people are NOT atheists, and I see no reason why they should tolerate an atheist agenda in the institutions that they built. Name an institution, a public one with ubiquitous benefit on a scale that can be perceived without major effort (like that of schools and churches), built by atheists.

Bigotry is not restricted to mainstream institutions. It's common among those who argue against their reserve and standards.

You have a strong moral sense and drive to do good works. That is what makes you able to see the evil in pedophilia. The Boy Scouts and the majority of religious institutions incorporate that into their fabric. Discriminating against them to validate atheism or homosexuality does no good.
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