Well, I think you're 100% right, Bill. Scouts are supposed to be a service or community organization, not a religious group. If this boy enjoys scouting and wishes to advance, nothing should stand in his way but the honest requirements of the merit badges. Good for you for answering as you did.
Of course, take what I say with a grain of salt. I made it six months in Cub Scouts before dropping out, from sheer boredom and near-fatal overdose of suburbiana....
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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