🚀 go-pugleaf

Bill Nelson wrote:
> 
> Boy Scouts of America
>                                 Sustained
>                    By United States Supreme Court
> June 28, 2000
> 
>  We are very pleased with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the Dale
> case. This decision affirms our standing as a private association with
> the right to set its own standards for membership and leadership.
> 
>  This decision allows us to continue our mission of providing
> character-building experiences for young people, which has been our
> chartered purpose since our founding.
> 
>  For more than 20 years, the Boy Scouts of America has defended its
> membership standards. We went to the highest court in the land, the U.S.
> Supreme Court, in order to do so. The Boy Scouts of America, as a
> private organization, must have the right to establish its own standards
> of membership if it is to continue to instill the values of the
>  Scout Oath and Law in boys. Thanks to our legal victories, our
> standards of membership have been sustained.
> 
>  We believe an avowed homosexual is not a role model for the values
> espoused in the Scout Oath and Law.
> 
>  Boy Scouting makes no effort to discover the sexual orientation of any
> person. Scouting's message is compromised when prospective leaders
> present themselves as role models inconsistent with Boy Scouting's
> understanding of the Scout Oath and Law.
> 
>  Scouting's record of inclusion is impressive by any standard. However,
> we do ask all of our members to do their best to live the Scout Oath and
> Law. Today, boys from every ethnic, religious, and economic background
> in suburbs, farms, and cities know and respect each other as they
> participate in our program.
> 
>  We thank the parents, volunteers and friends of Scouting who have
> supported us in this case and others. We respect other people's right to
> hold differing opinions and ask that they respect ours.
> 
>  In a support brief filed by three of Scouting's largest chartered
> organizations, they addressed why Scouting has been so effective for 90
> years: "Scouting's program for character development is effective
> precisely because it teaches through both precept and concrete examples
> of its adult leaders ... Scoutmasters exist not only to espouse the
> ideals of Scouting, but more importantly to live and embody them; they
> are the role models of the Scouting movement."
> 
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I am happy you are happy. But since the Boy Scouts are now
considered a private association please don't hold your
meetings in my local fire hall, church or public library.
Hold them at the scout leader's home. Are you also a 
non profit organization? Shame on you.

The next time one of your heterosexual pedophile leaders
molests a scout don't come whining. I will never support
any corporation that supports the scouts. My association
is finished. Forever. Gone. Nada.

Alexander Carusi