Reply #13: the funny thing is, that when I was a little atheist homo cub [View All]

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scout, webelo and boy scout, this was the part I took most seriously: "resolve to help others and commit to keeping themselves morally straight"

Back then as a child, I took "morality" to mean public kindness and charitable acts, fairness, volunteerism, generosity, avoiding pettiness, and other moral challenges that children routinely face.

I did not think of myself as amoral for being an atheist or immoral for being a little queer. Isn't it funny that the very ideas that the boy scouts try to instill that are relevant to boys are exactly what gets lost in this translation?

Adult concepts of morality tied to sexuality and to religious belief have nothing to do with teaching scouts to be good people. Unfortunately, in this case I have to concur with throwing the baby out with the bathwater.