Reply #4: So sorry young child

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The Boy Scouts deny membership to both homosexuals and atheists.

Atheist Scout Booted from Scouting

Port Orchard, Wash., Nov. 4--Given a week to find a god he can believe in, time has run out on Darrell Lambert. The Eagle Scout says he has been thrown out of the Boy Scouts because his atheist views don't agree with Boy Scout requirements for reverence. Officials at the Chief Seattle Council informed Lambert by phone today that he was no longer welcome.

Late last month, Lambert was given seven to ten days to change his beliefs, and family members said the deadline was extended over the weekend. But Lambert said he had been told his registration was being returned. "Then I'll get a letter saying I am being kicked out," he told Beliefnet.

He plans to appeal. "I'll go to the regional office, and the national after that if I have to," he said. Though he has spoken to lawyers who have handled similar cases, he wasn't sure if he is prepared to go to court to be reinstated.

The Boy Scouts of America require belief in a supreme being to qualify for membership. "You need to have a recognition of a supreme being," Brad Farmer, the Scout executive of the Chief Seattle Council of the Boy Scouts, told the Seattle Times in October. "We as the Boy Scouts do not define what that is, but you need to have a recognition."

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