The Boy Scouts of America should allow Gay Scouts/Scoutmasters to remain in the program.

Well it seams my opponent finally did get around to giving an argument. I shall do my best to rebut after presenting my own short case given the 3,000 character limit. To begin I would like to address Pro’s case for ‘Friendly’. Discrimination is not by default ‘unfriendly’, if it were then the Boy Scouts are also being ‘unfriendly’ to women also as we only let boys participate as scouts in the program. But that inclusive nature of the boy scout program should be taken as insulting or rude somehow, anyone with common sense can see our program does not target girls and so there is no place for them beyond adult leadership. Likewise we do not include atheist in our organization either, are program does not target those who cant fulfill our Scout Oath to do there ‘duty to God’. Likewise we do target teaching the scouts that immoral acts are okay, that they should keep themselves physically strong, mentally awake, and ‘morally strait’ (no pun intended that’s how the Oath is phrased). You might say ‘well maybe by your personal beliefs that homo-sex is a sin, but the BSA have no business taking a stance on it being wrong or right’ But this cannot be an option. When they intend to teach scouts to be morally strait, some kind of position has to taken on the issue one way or the other. If there was not there would be much confusion when one scout is taught by his parent homo-sex is wrong and yet his Troop allows an open practice-er of the immoral act as an adult leader. The other option is to actively teach scouts there parents are wrong, and there pastors are wrong, and there entire system of faith is wrong about it being immoral so we can have gay scoutmasters without consequence. That would downgrade us from the most religiously diverse organization in the world to excluding all religious faiths who holy books or set of doctrines treat homo-sex as immoral. So a position has to be taken on if it’s immoral or not, and we have taken one. If you do not like the position yourself start your own similar organization that teaches the opposite on the issue and targets the inclusion of gays, like the girl scouts target the inclusion of girls. Your point about Kind is more or less the same, with the ridiculous assertion that our inclusiveness somehow instills ‘fear’. You justify this assertion by saying ‘it makes them feel not as good as…’ If that’s your case than the correct term to use would have been ‘in instills low self esteem’ not ‘fear’. Since that’s the case you make, while not budging on the stance that its sin could ‘lower there self-esteem’ we have to be ‘brave’ and discipline them if we really do care about them at all. To quote J. K. Rowling ‘it takes a great deal of courage to stand up to enemies, but it takes a great deal more to stand up to your friends’ And make no mistake confronting others about their behavior is hard. In my short time of experience as a assistant scoutmaster I’ve already had to have a special ‘Scout master conference’ with one of our newer scouts about his behavior. Its more fun and easier to just be the cool older scout/youngest adult leader that hangs with the scouts, talks to them about snakes that went through the campsite, plays poker with them using rocks we found as the chips, ect…. But to have to switch from that role sit down and talk to a young man that probably has liked you up till at least this point about his problem with being absolutely disrespectful to the other scouts, constantly shutting them down, is hard. And it would not work if he does not see his leaders on the same page. On is own he see’s not problem with his bullying.