June 27, 2006

Another bad idea from a HSB blogger

I think I could keep busy doing nothing more than blogging the asinine ideas that show up in my RSS searches from the site that shall not be linked to.

Here is today's entry.

Since last year, some scout units have been bantering about having a National Christian Homeschool Scouts Camporee somewhere in or around Washington DC during 2008. This would be a great way for Christian Homeschool Scouts to meet and connect with each other and might give our little movement an identity. Would your unit be interested in participating?

I think they are sort of missing the point of Boy Scouts. If they can't (or don't want to) intermingle with people of different faiths, they haven't learned much from their Boy Scout experience. And it's not like faith isn't part of the Boy Scout experience. Faith is integral, and is in fact a requirement, of Scouting. Faith in "what" is left up to each Scout though.

If they don't like the fact that Scouting is not a segregated Christian organization, Awana will happily take them in.

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Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no. Bad. I don't need this.

My boys have had a great experience in Scouts so far, and all I can do is hope that we don't end up in one of *those* packs, because the fallout would be ... bloody. And I hate blood.

Posted by: Stephanie in TX at June 27, 2006 04:28 PM

As an Eagle Scout myself, I am getting incredibly tired of groups trying to change what Scouting is all about. The 12th and final point of the Scout Law is "Reverent." They do not say how you must worship, just that you must worship some higher being. In fact, you can earn a religous award in just about every denomination you can think of.

Boy Scouts of America is 96 years old and has done pretty well. Between attacks from the ACLU, and now fundamentalist Christian groups that want to segregate themselves, BSA has been under constant attack.

Without Scouting, I don't know what I would be doing now. I know that I would be much different than I am, and I don't think for the better.

Posted by: UnusualCandor at June 27, 2006 11:43 PM

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