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Related: About this forumHoly Mother of God... The dallas Morning News and Scouting
I hope you can access this through Facebook.Good God...the hate speech is unbelievable.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/columnists/jacquielynn-floyd/20120719-backward-scouts-policy-absurdly-out-of-step.ece
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Holy Mother of God... The dallas Morning News and Scouting (Original Post)
w8liftinglady
Jul 2012
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This just serves to attract bigots and homophobes to scouting instead of people looking for a
The_Casual_Observer
Jul 2012
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William769
(55,147 posts)1. absurdly is not the word I would use.
In fact it would take even more than several to try to explain this. What they have done was not only secret (to hide what actually took place), but was dishonest as all get out.
A Secret Committee Will Not Stop Us
http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2012/07/19/zach-wahls-says-secret-boy-scouts-committee-will-not-stop-us
Booster
(10,021 posts)2. Only read a couple, but yeah, it's ugly.
w8liftinglady
(23,278 posts)3. if it's any consolation,I have kept up the good fight there
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)4. This just serves to attract bigots and homophobes to scouting instead of people looking for a
good experience for their boys. I really couldn't have anything to do with the BSA anymore.