I'm late to this thread, but here goes: When I was in cub scouts as a kid, we had a pretty good group for awhile. I had no idea of any of these issues- what gay was, etc. so I didn't care. Later on, we got a new scout leader whose son shared all sorts of racist things his father had to say about his dark-skinned neighbors. That was the last time I went to scouts.
Intolerance breeds more intolerance. On 11/4/07, Gruss wrote: > > My wife and I had an interesting debate on the BSA. > > Her position: > Because the BSA bans atheists and Gays from being BSA leaders, we > shouldn't let our fictitious children attend any BSA events because > then we'd be implicitly endorsing their discrimination and possibly > funding it. > > My position: > Lots of groups have these same rules: Catholic Church (some sects), > Jewish Church, etc., but also stand for the Golden Rule, honor, etc. > If our children were to attend events and there was an implicit or > explicit agreement not to discuss their discriminatory reasoning, then > it would be ok. (I think there's a larger principle here about > favoring a homogenous society vs. a tolerant society too) > > So who's right? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245903 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
