2010/12/7 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Wayne Fay <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> > If memory serves though, all the *really* interesting stuff starts >>>> with >>>> > venture scouts, which is mixed gender. >>>> >>>> At least where I grew up, that was called Explorer Scouts and accepted >>>> teenagers of either gender. I was part of (and briefly led) an >>>> Explorer Scouts group which focused on Sailing and Boating (aka Sea >>>> Scouts). >>>> >>> >>> My understanding is that most Scout organizations carry a very strong >>> Christian bias, including hostility toward other faiths and atheists, along >>> with pronounced homophobia and similar bad stuff. >>> >>> I'd be careful where I send my kids. >>> >> >> While having a "strong Christian bias" may be true of a great many things >> in the USA. The norm in the UK (and the rest of Europe, to my knowledge) is >> for organisations to be free from any religious affiliation, this is also >> true of the Scouts. >> > > Right, I should have specified that I was talking about US Scout > organizations, sorry. > > Not your fault... You were conditioned to think that way when they named the world series :)
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