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Mon Jan 28, 2013, 02:25 PM

24. Tell them you pray to the FSM

I think this is motivated by $$$$$'s and a number of public orgs have been cutting funding to BSA the last few years.

Guess the bigots wil need to pony up more money if they want the BSA to continue to discriminate.

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97 replies	Author	Time	Post
NBC News: Boy Scouts Close to Ending Ban on Gay Members, Leaders [View all]	Hissyspit	Jan 2013	OP
This is an issue that has prevented us from allowing our boys in scouting	AllyCat	Jan 2013	#1
We didn't allow our son to join Cub Scouts. We made our own group.	Arugula Latte	Jan 2013	#19
Interesting. I don't like a group that discriminates against certain people.	AllyCat	Jan 2013	#22
We just did our own group.	Arugula Latte	Jan 2013	#38
I don't have children but I have insisted that family members with sons do just as you have done	Blasphemer	Jan 2013	#76
I would love to see this happen. n/t	TDale313	Jan 2013	#2
Oh God.	ForgoTheConsequence	Jan 2013	#3
Didn't we just go through this...	DonViejo	Jan 2013	#4
The BSA is getting hammered	Xithras	Jan 2013	#12
Maybe now that Romney lost, they're less concerned about the LDS. n/t	Ian David	Jan 2013	#13
Even Mitt Romney said that the BSA should drop the ban	Xithras	Jan 2013	#32
Yes, but he said that years ago. He's certainly flip-flopped by now. n/t	Ian David	Jan 2013	#33
Possibly	Xithras	Jan 2013	#36
They deserved the hammering they got...	DonViejo	Jan 2013	#25
I agree. This is mostly the national Committee trying ....	oldhippie	Jan 2013	#74
I absolutely do NOT agree with that.	Xithras	Jan 2013	#80
Core values of hatred and bigotry?	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#83
I find it hard to believe that a "former scout" would say that.	Xithras	Jan 2013	#86
It is far more than a few Texas Bigots	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#89
The proposal would not leave the decision to the units, but to the chartering organization.	Xithras	Jan 2013	#90
80% of Scouting units in Arizona	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#91
There's some debate as to what would happen with the Catholic units.	Xithras	Jan 2013	#92
Here you go - Catholic and Mormon bigots won't change. No hope for Arizona Scouting.	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#93
The quote from Sister Walsh is the one I was talking about.	Xithras	Jan 2013	#94
So if the BSA allows local decision	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#95
Yes, the local facilities would not be permitted to block them.	Xithras	Jan 2013	#96
That is interesting to know -thanks	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#97
Not good enough	surrealAmerican	Jan 2013	#5
They would just be following President Obama's lead on Gay Rights being a local issue	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#18
w00t!	Taverner	Jan 2013	#6
It would be one of those "bout time"	Bohunk68	Jan 2013	#7
I'll believe it when I see it.	Fearless	Jan 2013	#8
But they'll allow local bigotry?	SpartanDem	Jan 2013	#9
Yet I got hammered here for not being impressed with President Obama	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#20
And you still haven't done the research I recommended to you	DonViejo	Jan 2013	#30
I have done my research. Have you really done yours?	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#45
When someone relies on racist comments...	DonViejo	Jan 2013	#47
There was nothing racist in my comments	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#49
It's a crack in the facade. It should be celebrated for that reason alone.	randome	Jan 2013	#26
"color me unimpressed with this "change"."	SoapBox	Jan 2013	#42
Many of us involved in scouting have LONG said that this was a simple compromise.	Xithras	Jan 2013	#10
No, not fine if the local group, part of national organization, discriminates	HERVEPA	Jan 2013	#11
First off, this would be a first step.	Xithras	Jan 2013	#17
Thank you	Stargazer09	Jan 2013	#28
I am the CRO for my unit	Gothmog	Jan 2013	#31
No it is not	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#66
And, remember, the "Friggin Mormon" cult, was in the shadows behind	SoapBox	Jan 2013	#43
Exactly. And not quite the shadows. Big, big bucks.	HERVEPA	Jan 2013	#46
Suppose they're the only group in town	TrogL	Jan 2013	#52
There is no limit to the density of scouting units.	Xithras	Jan 2013	#57
You haven't been in much of the rural west or south then	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#67
You're conflating problems.	Xithras	Jan 2013	#81
And you are excusing bigotry and hatred	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#82
To paraphraise Voltaire, "Perfection is the enemy of progress".	Xithras	Jan 2013	#84
If wanting immediate equality for all ends the existence of BSA	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#85
That's where our opinions split.	Xithras	Jan 2013	#87
kick!	hedgehog	Jan 2013	#14
A step forward for progress	iandhr	Jan 2013	#15
How about atheists?	Arugula Latte	Jan 2013	#16
Tell them you pray to the FSM	Lesmoderesstupides	Jan 2013	#24
Ironically, that would work.	Xithras	Jan 2013	#41
In my book FSM is just as valid as any other god people pray too	Lesmoderesstupides	Jan 2013	#44
I never got any shit for being an atheist in the Scouts.	Codeine	Jan 2013	#58
AFAIK most worldwide Scouting has an issue with non-theists.	mwooldri	Jan 2013	#60
I went through 7 years as an adult leader	Gore1FL	Jan 2013	#61
I'd never participate in an organization that had an official no gays/no atheists policy, though.	Arugula Latte	Jan 2013	#70
The US has had backwards laws an policies.	Gore1FL	Jan 2013	#71
I never liked the rah rah rightwing patriotic bent of the Scouts.	Arugula Latte	Jan 2013	#72
I didn't experience that right-wing patriotic bent	Gore1FL	Jan 2013	#77
Excellent. K&R for progress, and may it continue.	Brickbat	Jan 2013	#21
The Mormons relax BSA rules?	longship	Jan 2013	#23
"other organizations have threatened to withdraw their financial support if the BSA drops the ban."	KamaAina	Jan 2013	#27
United Way	Gothmog	Jan 2013	#34
No, no. He's saying some groups will cease funding if they DROP the ban.	KamaAina	Jan 2013	#35
They BSA would be better off if the policy is changed	Gothmog	Jan 2013	#39
Why in the name of the FSM are there troops that are segregated by religion?	KamaAina	Jan 2013	#48
It depends on the chartering organization	Gothmog	Jan 2013	#53
This may be the best that we can hope for	Gothmog	Jan 2013	#29
Discrimination at the Local LEvel is the BEST we could hope for?	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#68
That leaves atheists as the sole pariah now.	no_hypocrisy	Jan 2013	#37
My local troop when I was younger openly ignored the ban	NYC Liberal	Jan 2013	#40
One of the New York Councils has stated that it was ignoring the national policy	Gothmog	Jan 2013	#54
Okay, as long as they're not ATHEIST Gay members...	brooklynite	Jan 2013	#50
SMOKE & MIRRORS!	William769	Jan 2013	#51
This is where I like the Canadian Scouts	Posteritatis	Jan 2013	#55
Most if not all of World Scouting Organizations reject the BSA policy	Gothmog	Jan 2013	#56
It is important for one reason.	Gore1FL	Jan 2013	#79
I am so happy	d_r	Jan 2013	#59
This isn't the victory a lot are making it out to be.	AngryOldDem	Jan 2013	#62
I disagree	Gothmog	Jan 2013	#63
... but only if they agree to castration?	panzerfaust	Jan 2013	#64
Too late.	Occulus	Jan 2013	#65
This Eagle Scout	CRK7376	Jan 2013	#69
This Eagle Scout	Gore1FL	Jan 2013	#78
Not that I have a dog in this fight	Le Taz Hot	Jan 2013	#73
My son's scout group is headed by a transgendered man	marshall	Jan 2013	#75
I can't help but laugh at all the right wingers calling up on the radio...	davidn3600	Jan 2013	#88

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