At 11:17 AM 8/6/2001 -0500, Jose F. Rodriguez wrote:
>Does anybody out there feel like National office should have done a
>nationwide vote to see if the majority of outposts in the United States
>would have wanted or not wanted or agreed with the new changes in the
>Royal Ranger program. I've talk to a lot of commanders who are angry with
>the new changes and the loss of "uniqueness" that the old program had in
>comparision to the Boy Scouts to which the new changes more closely
>resemble now (ex. awards vest for new merit badges and an American
>flag). I for one liked the program just the way it was and feel they
>should have done a nationwide vote among the outpost of the US. This is
>after all suppose to be a democratic nation after all, and I we're going
>to now be wearing an american flag on our uniform then thats even more of
>a reason for the national office to have done it in a democratic way.
As you know, the United States is a republic, not a democracy. It's
impossible for all of us to have a voice in every state and national
decision, as we would have in a democracy, so we elect representatives to
go to our state and national capitals to represent us in the
decision-making process. In much the same way, our representatives in Royal
Rangers were involved in this decision-making process to bring about change
to the Royal Rangers program. Many of the representatives that requested
change were pastors, who either individually asked the national A/G
leadership for change, or who participated in a pastoral study committee
that examined Royal Rangers a few years ago and recommended change. In
addition, the national RR executive committee (which contains
representatives from the National Council which in turn represents the RR
in each district) also undertook a study to examine the existing RR program
to recommend change. This all took place before Ken Hunt stepped down as
the national commander, so we can't say that it's the new folks in the
national RR office who are pushing for the change. They were brought in to
bring about the change that the pastoral study committee and the national
RR executive committee had already recommended as our representatives.
Jonathan
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