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Politics : Polite Political Discussion- is it Possible? An Experiment.
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To: epicure who wrote (27)7/28/2006 1:49:53 PM
From: Brumar89Read Replies (1) of 1695
 
Sexual orientation isn't a protected class and I don't think it needs to be. Particularly when protecting that class may mean demonizing and destroying largely beneficial institutions like the scouts. Similar campaigns could be waged against every church or religious institution in the country.

I believe they have kept out some scouts who wanted to be in troops because they were gay.

If true, that would be unwise in that people shouldn't assign sexual orientation to kids.

And I know there was an argument from a scout who didn't want to affirm the God thing, which is also a problem with the scouts, imo.

Then he shouldn't join the scouts. Or maybe atheists could start their own scout troops.

Establishing and furthering religion is all well and good, but it isn't something the state should (imo) be involved in.

Scouts aren't a state institution and they're entirely voluntary.

I'm not sure why you would think my opinion would have changed..

Since you'd said only parents s/b scout leaders - a good idea with which I agree btw. I wondered whether knowing that the only gay guy (James Dale) who has wanted to be a scout leader and can't because he's gay has no children. Thus it appears the Scout ban on gay scout leaders affects no one who is a parent of a scout.
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