has this benefit been granted to an organization that promotes religion or discriminates based on religion.

They also discriminate against gays.

Support the Girl Scouts instead which have no policy of bigotry towards atheists or gays.

The Girl Scouts are TOTALLY DIFFERENT from the BSA. In fact, the local Girl Scout troop showed up at the “Atheists in Foxholes” event to hand out chocolate bars to our veterans. The Girl Scouts are ethical, and they DO NOT DISCRIMINATE.

The Girl Scouts are ethical, and they DO NOT DISCRIMINATE.

Also, delicious cookies.

Why should any parent question any man that is gay for wanting to go out in the woods alone and unsupervised with their children. Oh the shame of those parents.

DeepDiver,
I normally like your posts, but your conflating gayness with pedophilia is disgusting and I’m going to have to reform my opinion of you as a result.

Are we to assume that you believe that Girl Scouts are in constant danger of being raped by Girl Scout leaders?

For what it’s worth, I can’t recall a single camping trip that didn’t involve multiple adult supervisors. Even the one-off single weekend trips. There were always at least two leaders and the scouts were always encouraged to stay in groups no smaller than two people as well.

I wouldn’t at all be surprised if more scouts have died as a result of driving to and from meetings than have been raped by a scout leader.

I can’t believe I’m actually defending the BSA.

Furthermore:
The assumption that just because someone is gay that they will abuse children absurd…
Do you automatically assume any straight person will automatically want to get an under aged girl?

In Boy Scouts they maintain a 2-1 ratio, where there must be at least 2 scouts to 1 adult. No adult is ever supposed to be in a purely 1-1 interaction with a scout for precisely the same reason that you’re trying to get at with your insinuations. The moment I turned 18 in my troop (which is when you are considered an adult in Scouts) I had to attend a lecture on how adults were supposed to interact with the scouts, and how to look for signs of abuse.
I’m not saying that system is perfect, but I think it to be ludicrous to make the point you’re getting at.

I know, lets try our favorite game of substitution here: Would your accusations really hold up if you replaced “gay” with “minority x”?
You may try to argue that because gays are sexually attracted to the gender of the youths they are supposed to be supervising, that this makes things different, but I think you can only make this argument when you also make the foolish assumption that all gays are corrupt and immoral…

To set the record straight. Never was forced to go to church while I was in the scouts. There was ALWAYS more than 2 or 3 male leaders with us. I am sure there was at least one that was gay, can’t prove it but suspected it. Never felt uncomfortable with any of the leaders at all.

The only thing I really disagreed with was the god thing which was not that big of a deal.

Now the title of this thread

Commemorative Coin for Bigoted Scouts of America

kind of ticks me off.

‘Bigots’ really gets thown around here alot. Especially when it comes to gays.

When I was in the scouts, religion and sex was never an issue. It just did not come up.

Now it is an issue and the scouts are BIGOTS!

I disagree. The scouts are not bigots as a whole. There are bigots in there but as an organization, in whole they are not.

As far as the girl scouts, I have seen much more abuse when it came to religion.

alatham: Never meant to imply gayness with pedophila. I was being sarcastic as being role models. Obviously after reading that post I made, it does sound wrong.

Bottom line is, I do not agree on calling an entire organization bigots for what a few stand for.

http://www.scouting.org/media/factsheets/02-209.aspx

Jews, Buddhists, etc are supported by the Scouts. Does not sound bigoted to me.