[15308] in APO-L
Re: Scout Oath and Law discussion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (The Italian Stallion)
Thu Nov 7 02:47:12 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 01:45:18 -0600
Reply-To: The Italian Stallion <librimd@MAIL.AUBURN.EDU>
From: The Italian Stallion <librimd@MAIL.AUBURN.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.961106015439.14960A-100000@tavarua>
On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Deb Gallagher wrote:
> Whoa, I decided to pledge this organization because of the
> concentration toward service to the four c's, not because it was
> associated with the scouts. How dare you say that because someone has a
> problem with the boy scout Oath and Law that they are in the wrong
> organization?!
Well, what did you expect me to say? "It's okay, you can blow off the
code of laws that this fraternity was founded on. They're not important"?
> I really didn't know that such intolerance was so
> prevalent in our fraternity. I guess the problems that I've seen at ABO
> truly are small compared to the problems that APO is looking at if all
> brothers can't be more tolerant or those who just happen to like making a
> life long committment to service our society and NOT the boy scouts.
Give me a break. We were founded on the scout oath and law. It's our
support beam, our foothold, our base. It is represented in our symbols
(remember your initiation?), and expressed in our actions. This has
nothing to do with tolerence. This has to do with believing in the most
basic, common denominator of our fraternity. It is what we were founded
on. LFS came AFTER the 12 points. LFS is, in fact, a simplified way of
stating the scout oath and law.
-Delta 1159
Mark Librizzi
