[Winona Online Democracy]
At 07:02 PM 3/23/01, Cherisa Templeton wrote:
>Bob,
>Absolutely the right thing was done. I'm very impressed with our United Way
>for making what must have been a difficult decision. The United Way has to
>hold their recipients to certain standards, and if these groups don't want
>to abide by them, then they should not receive their money.
>Overall the Boy Scouts are a wonderful group, however they do discriminate
>on the basis of sexual orientation and religion. We've struggled with
>wanting our son to have a scouting experience, but feel such discrimination
>goes against our family values and is not something we want to have taught
>to him.
Cherisa,
By all means, get your son into scouting. You will find that such
discrimination is not practiced at the cub scout pack / boy scout troop
level here in Winona (re my post earlier today). In fact, this issue can
serve as a catalyst for the boys (and their families) to discuss
discrimination, and how even the most well-meaning of organizations can fall
prey to it. The positive values which a boy receives in scouting far
outweigh the negatives here.
Ed Thompson
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Ed's witty saying for this week comes from Bob Dylan:
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at
night, and in between he does what he wants to do."
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