Written: 8/3/2012
A lot has been written online about the BSA’s ban. All of them are worth a read, here’s a link roundup for you:
Teaching Tolerance to Boy Scouts
The boy might also notice that the scout oath and scout law are inconsistent with the ban.
Scouts helped make me who I am. Today as an author and journalist I travel alone to parts of the world I can’t pronounce. I accept cultures and people in their own terms. I try to look past our differences and see our similarities.
Why my son can’t be a Boy Scout
“It’s against everything Boy Scouts taught me,” Bruce said about the policy. “It was about learning to be a good man and caring about other people and putting them first.”
An Eagle Scout’s thoughts on the BSA’s policies
Personally, I think that the decision to ban gays from Scouting is detrimental to the BSA and puts this venerable organization on the wrong side of both a rising tide of popular opinion in America and several core American and Scout values.
Scout’s Dishonor: The BSA continues to blaze a trail of intolerance
Do the Boy Scouts really want to be the last defender of an ugly bias that the rest of America has laid to rest?
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight
The tide does indeed keep turning, and we’ll continue to fight. And we’ll win, eventually.
All my best,
The King of Spades
