Hurray, the Boy Scouts of America have finally ended years of bigotry -- sort of -- by lifting the ban on gay adult scout leaders. We say "sort of" because individual church-led chapters still have the authority to decide they don't wanna play by the rules and can instead continue being small-minded childish bigots, like they were promised by Jesus in the Bible. This came after former Defense Secretary and current BSA president Robert Gates
Different eras. I was briefly in the BSA in, say, 1960-2. Our adult leaders were guys that had missed WW2 because of age, and Korea because of luck, but were pining for the military experience (where they were senior). I didn't last long.
OTOH, my older son was involved for most of his high school years, although I don't believe he ever got past First Class. He was in it for the camping. I have no idea who sponsored the troop. It may have been the local LDS stake. It never made any impact on the camping.
Yeah that's kinda the thing. They don't wear them incessantly. It's no big deal to remove them if their not appropriate for an activity or subject to ridicule. The underwear thing is weird, for sure, but I don't think it's a weird as people make it out to be. In my opinion there are much weirder things that they do/believe.
I was a Brownie Scout. My Jewish mother was a Brownie Leader. Later on, I was a Girl Scout and earned enough badges to cover my sash. The super-Christians joined Campfire Girls, not Scouts.
They did it because becoming an Eagle Scout is prestigious and seems pure. They enroll every 11 year old boy in each stake, and every year they advance them en masse like clockwork, and so long as they all belong to a stake they all have an Eagle project all planned out for them, the adults work on it, and their boys get to go into a job or college interview saying "I'm and Eagle Scout". It used to be a very exclusive club. Now that club is only exclusive if you're NOT a Mormon. Every Mormon boy is likely to be at least a Life Scout (they'll keep advancing him even if they lose track of him) if not an Eagle Scout.
Not much. I know the names of the first 4 books of the old testament. That's pretty much it. However, I remember vividly how annoyed I was that my parents made me go.
We expect different from Dr Chaps?
Django, not so much.
Different eras. I was briefly in the BSA in, say, 1960-2. Our adult leaders were guys that had missed WW2 because of age, and Korea because of luck, but were pining for the military experience (where they were senior). I didn't last long.
OTOH, my older son was involved for most of his high school years, although I don't believe he ever got past First Class. He was in it for the camping. I have no idea who sponsored the troop. It may have been the local LDS stake. It never made any impact on the camping.
At least you remember.
Amen.
Looks into his hat.
Yeah that's kinda the thing. They don't wear them incessantly. It's no big deal to remove them if their not appropriate for an activity or subject to ridicule. The underwear thing is weird, for sure, but I don't think it's a weird as people make it out to be. In my opinion there are much weirder things that they do/believe.
I was a Brownie Scout. My Jewish mother was a Brownie Leader. Later on, I was a Girl Scout and earned enough badges to cover my sash. The super-Christians joined Campfire Girls, not Scouts.
Polite golf clap, Zippy.
They did it because becoming an Eagle Scout is prestigious and seems pure. They enroll every 11 year old boy in each stake, and every year they advance them en masse like clockwork, and so long as they all belong to a stake they all have an Eagle project all planned out for them, the adults work on it, and their boys get to go into a job or college interview saying "I'm and Eagle Scout". It used to be a very exclusive club. Now that club is only exclusive if you're NOT a Mormon. Every Mormon boy is likely to be at least a Life Scout (they'll keep advancing him even if they lose track of him) if not an Eagle Scout.
Now, now. Are you sure he wasn't actually a tree?
Out of curiousity,l how much did you retain?
I need to hunt up opportunities to try that.
No tree has ever grown pimples that nasty.
Not much. I know the names of the first 4 books of the old testament. That's pretty much it. However, I remember vividly how annoyed I was that my parents made me go.
So in the end, you did learn something!