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Bill, you've already got pleanty of answers, but chalk up another Eagle Scout in the "Give the kid the damn badge" catagory.
Back when I was in college, a friend wrote an editorial in the college newspaper about BSA and barring gays and athiests. In the next edition, the local BSA chairman wrote in, saying that the BSA is a private organization and they didn't have to include anyone they didn't want to (and I'm deeply paraphrasing here).
I got pissed. I wrote the very next week about my own experiences in scouting and how they taught me to be inclusive. To strive to better understand others, especially those I disagreed with. I ended by telling him that if scouting had truly changed that much, he could contact me and take my Eagle Badge back, I wasn't going to want it anymore.
Never heard back, but I'm guessing he didn't read it. I doubt I scared him away. Too bad some folks have to create exclusion instead of continuing what I always considered a great program.
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