[15381] in APO-L
Re: Scout Oath and Law discussion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (High Lord of Chaos)
Fri Nov 8 13:29:11 1996
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 10:26:48 -0800
Reply-To: High Lord of Chaos <hawkeye@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU>
From: High Lord of Chaos <hawkeye@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
> > 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.
Actually, this has everything to do with tolerance. Horton observed scouts
were able to tolerate differences in religion, and I'm sure other areas
as well, and that was what impressed him about the oath and law. If it
wasn't for this tolerance, he would not have chosen those ideals as a
basis for a new fraternity. This is what makes us strong, the ability to
accept others regardless of the differences they may have, and that includes
BSA's current intolerance of the "3-G's".
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