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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

Buster Gammons















Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Boy Scouts Earn Demerit Badge

What the hell is wrong with the Boy Scouts?  After an ages-long ban on participation by any sort of homosexual, the BSA tippy-toed a couple inches out on a limb and said they would consider allowing each local Scout District/Council to decide for themselves to accept or deny gays, as each saw fit.  (Ooh, what a gutsy call -- Punt!!)  Then today they announced they can't get their shit together to agree to even that wimpy half-measure.  They'll put off this humongous, earth-shattering decision for a few more months, while they think further about . . . what?

Straight, gay, or in between -- it has no impact on merit badges and camping trips.  Puh-leeze!


The problem seems to be that many Scout organizations are supported, directly and indirectly, by churches, and socially speaking, many of these upright theologians are living in the past -- deep in the past, like in the Dark Ages!

Another example of religion playing a constructive, helpful role in our lives.

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