[15735] in APO-L
APO and Scouting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger Lee Stearns Jr.)
Thu Dec 5 04:58:00 1996
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 03:56:24 -0600
Reply-To: "Roger Lee Stearns Jr." <rstearns@COMP.UARK.EDU>
From: "Roger Lee Stearns Jr." <rstearns@COMP.UARK.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
For those of us that were participating in the Scouting thread a few weeks
ago, or for those of you taht followed it....I have found a very
interesting website on the net that addresses a very interesting issue
regarding the Boy Scouts of America.
The following is an excerpt of the paper's closing remarks:
"Remember: The Campfire Girls and Boys and the Girl Scouts have
recognized the importance of nondiscriminatory policies; so have
Boy Scout organizations throughout most of Europe. The BSA,
therefore, is one of the last holdouts, an institution still
clinging to the doctrine that "no boy can grow into the best
kind of citizenship" without a backpack full of religious bigotry,
sexism, and homophobia."
The website contains a paper written by Dr. Larry A. Taylor of the
University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Taylor presents a very well
laid out examination and argument against the membership policies of the
Boy Scouts of America.
In Brotherhood,
Roger Stearns
Beta Rho Chapter
Eagle Scout
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