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Re: Scout Law

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Dean)
Fri Nov 8 22:36:00 1996

Date:         Fri, 8 Nov 1996 21:38:21 -0600
Reply-To: rdean@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu
From: Robert Dean <rdean@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>

Joseph M. Fisher wrote:
> My reason is that the Oath and Law are not ours.  We are not all Scouts;
> our chapters do not all present the Twelve Points as a part of APO's
> philosophy.  LFS is what unites us, and that is what the current purpose
> says, albeit in clumsy language.

LFS are our Cardinal Principles, but the Scout Oath and Law are the
principles we were founded/based upon (read the "Story of the Founding",
an excerpt of which I posted here just two days ago).

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