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In reply to the discussion: NBC News: Boy Scouts Close to Ending Ban on Gay Members, Leaders [View all]dbackjon
(6,578 posts)68. Discrimination at the Local LEvel is the BEST we could hope for?
What the hell?
We are supposed to settle for less than full equality?
Either the Scouts go full equality nationally, or they should be shut down.
Discrimination of any type is never acceptable.
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I don't have children but I have insisted that family members with sons do just as you have done
Blasphemer
Jan 2013
#76
The proposal would not leave the decision to the units, but to the chartering organization.
Xithras
Jan 2013
#90
Here you go - Catholic and Mormon bigots won't change. No hope for Arizona Scouting.
dbackjon
Jan 2013
#93
They would just be following President Obama's lead on Gay Rights being a local issue
dbackjon
Jan 2013
#18
Many of us involved in scouting have LONG said that this was a simple compromise.
Xithras
Jan 2013
#10
I'd never participate in an organization that had an official no gays/no atheists policy, though.
Arugula Latte
Jan 2013
#70
"other organizations have threatened to withdraw their financial support if the BSA drops the ban."
KamaAina
Jan 2013
#27
One of the New York Councils has stated that it was ignoring the national policy
Gothmog
Jan 2013
#54