My oldest is 7 now and I’ve struggled with the idea as well. You didn’t say if you lived in Utah, but I think the religious influence in Scouts is greater here than most other states.
In principle, I have a hard time associating with an organization that holds such clear discrimination rules, but I admit there are a lot of good experiences in Scouts.
Good luck and keep us posted.

Cheers.

A quick look at history refutes your argument for the BSA’s “unchanging” values: blacks in America were also discriminated (surprise!) by the BSA. Not only blacks, but also Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and other minorities. Let me remind you also that even religious organizations (read LDS Church) change their “values” over time to accommodate changing cultures.

Not being influenced by “what society is doing” is not only foolish, it’s dangerous. I for sure would hate to be burned at the stake today for heresy!!!

Many other organizations Boys and Girls clubs, Campfire, School sponsored events offer similar aportunities that BSA offers without the foundation of religion and the standards (sexual preferance) generally associated with it. One of the points you made as an argument against BSA I feel is one of its strongest and most psoative character points. That they are not influenced by what society is doing. The values that BSA holds to have been unchanging (for the most part there are some exceptions)since it inception.

Thanks for stopping by, Activist.

Seeing that you’re clearly obsessed with defending Sarah Palin on your site, I’ll try to use words you can understand in my reply.

While I did acknowledge the good that the Scouting program does (but you probably didn’t read the whole post anyway), I feel that we should always strive to improve on what we’re teaching our children, especially when dealing with archaic, dogmatic views. Your blog is obviously a good example of intolerance and right-wing psychobabble, so I know it’s hard for you to see that the only reason we’re still holding on to homosexual discrimination is solely religious.
I would agree with you that having more programs that keep kids involved in various activities around the country would only benefit them, but I definitely don’t agree we need to teach them they can’t participate because they choose to love “the wrong gender” based solely on outdated (and arguably incorrect) religious views.

As far as your last assumption, a classic display of what nutbags do, you make a claim of which you know nothing. You don’t know ANYTHING about me… it’s really amusing you can really write that about someone.
I think most people would agree that it is those that don’t live amongst diversity who appall it, like you do. If you have people around you who suffer from discrimination solely for their sexual preference or the color of their skin, you would know and feel the true pain and suffering they go through. You would understand that people make good choices and people make bad choices and their sexual orientation doesn’t define them in those terms one single bit.

“The Grand Crusade for Diversity, Inc.”?… Rainbow club?… seriously, the hate is strong within you.

People who rhapsodize about diversity, such as yourself, generally have had little experience actually living amongst it.