Boy Scouts Lifts Ban on Gay Scout Leaders

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God, wonder if my church will still charter my troop. Hope so???

Any church that would stop sponsoring the Boy Scouts because other troops can officially have gay leaders (and in actuality have had them for decades) doesn't need to be sponsoring the Scouts anyway.

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As an Eagle Scout, I am pleased to hear this! However, we still need to have a conversation about the restrictions on the non-religious and about dropping the B from BSA.

Obviously we should drop the rarely-enforced ban on atheists (what teenager has a coherent, well-developed set of religious views anyway?), but I see no reason to open it up to people who identify as female. Transboys are fine (and I suspect there's probably already some in it anyway, in trans-positive troops).

Or, maybe the Girl Scouts could be folded into the Boy Scout organization, but with gender-specific troops. The last thing my old troop needed on our camping trips was girls with us.

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It needs to be pointed out that the Scouts are NOT a Christian organization. There are troops affiliated with synagogues, mosques, Hindu temples, etc.

One of the badges you can earn is a religious knot, which you get by completing a bunch of requirements based on your religion and denomination. I got parvuli dei, which is for Catholics. Here is the complete list. It includes Judaism, Islam, Bahai, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, etc.