Thursday, January 20, 2011
Boy Scouts in Philadelphia?
I am an avid member and leader of the Boy Scouts of America and an Eagle Scout myself and have been involved in scouting since i was in the first grade. Since i have been involved for soo long in scouting a certain topic had really began to get me pissed. Somewhere about two years ago the city of Philadelphia was trying to change a certain rule in Boy Scouts which had been in place for a long time. That rule was that no gays were allowed and also no openly gay leaders were also allowed, basically a don't ask don't tell type of ordeal. The city wanted to change that rule because they felt it was discrimination, and they city tried to do that by saying they either had to leave their office on race street in center city or move their office to the main office in Valley Forge. That was beginning to piss many people off including myself, because the city is on this whole ordeal about going anti-discriminatory, so they want to throw a treasured organization's office inorder to supposedly make things better for the organization and for the city. They are 100 percent wrong, for the boy scouts based in Philadelphia to change that there would have to be some kind of massive nationwide council just to consider the change but I know and what the city eventually realized through years of court hears will never happen. I'm glad the city lost this case because they don't deserve to be screwing with something as important as the Boy Scouts, and also the Boy Scouts are a pretty powerful organization so they will never lose a fight like the one they just won.
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Hmmm... Imagine if there was an organization that didn't allow males with black hair to join, and then wanted to use your tax dollars to help their club. You don't think the city of Philadelphia has a point? And for the record, there are MANY Boy Scout organizations around the country who do NOT support the ban on gays. Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill have a Boy Scout group who are all inclusive and do NOT adhere to the national organization's belief.
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