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To: cosmicforce who wrote (1666)	1/19/2001 12:16:03 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 82486

I am a tough customer- I am rarely totally pleased with a product. When I was a Brownie, the troops were usually run by "spinsters." My sense was that they were doing the maternal thing. Never seemed odd. Of course, that was a long time ago. Karen

To: cosmicforce who wrote (1666)	1/19/2001 12:56:51 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

<< I believe there are scoutmasters and assistant scoutmasters who aren't parents. That would make me uncomfortable. >> I'm sure it is the case, however. And you can see that if a boy, gay or straight, was a long time scout, he might at some point, before he was a parent, decide to become an assistant scoutmaster, and progress in the normal course of things to becoming a scoutmaster. If there is no rule that only parents can be scoutmasters, then anyone, gay or straight, may apply, of course. If you are a parent and a scoutmaster and your child grows up, you might well continue to be a scoutmaster, in the absence of a parents-only rule.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (1666)	1/19/2001 1:05:29 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

BTW, the Boy Scouts ban not only gays, but also women and atheists.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (1666)	1/19/2001 1:37:54 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

My hubby just came by and I told him what the subject of our conversation was. He says the two leaders for his Boy Scout troop were an unmarried, non-parent marine and his longtime and married pal, an alcoholic who used the camping trips as occasions to get falling-down drunk in the absence of his wife. The boys thought it was funny. It never occurred to him that either of the guys were gay. But let's take this situation and assume hypothetically that they are straight and taking young girls out to the woods, or gay (just the marine or both of them) and taking young boys out to the woods. I feel uncomfortable with each of these scenarios.