Newsgroups: alt.politics.homosexuality
Subject: Re: Why?
From: jkusters@zeus.calpoly.edu (Chrome Jester)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:46:52 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

aap@wam.umd.edu (Alberto Adolfo Pinkas) divulges:
->
->Then, I would say that people should make a new Boy Scouts organization, 
->where kids are thaught all those great things, and where, also, there is 
->no segregation of any kind.
->Just let them have their BSA where people are segregated, and make a new one
->where you have the best of them plus the best of you and all the others.
->It sounds like it is impossible to breake with BSA. And, to me, it sounds 
->like fighting for a corpse.
->Let them die and let a new organization be born, and call it something like
->Boys and Girls Scouting in America.
->Then, everybody will be happy: You can teach, the others can learn, the
->tradition still goes on, and all can get toghether.

Alberto, I'm not entirely sure how much you know about the BSA.  In this
country, Scouting has access to resources that simply boggle the
imagination.  They have access to private and government lands that no-one
else has access to.  They enjoy a level of access to government that no
other group has.  As the saying goes, they are "In like Flynn."

In order to make a similar group that would not be discriminatory would be
much more work than trying to change an already good group from within.

Try this analogy.  You have built this wonderful machine that takes all of
your dirty clothes, sorts them correctly, washes them correctly (handles
your knits gently and your denim vigorously), picks and implements the
correct drying mechanism for each article of clothing and then folds it all
and puts it all away.  What a wonderful machine!  It does EVERYTHING!  Well,
almost everything.  It doesn't fold socks just the way you want it to.  So,
now you have two choices.  One, you can throw away the machine you already
have (and all of the time, work, money, and sweat that you have already
invested in it) and rebuild a brand new one from scratch without even the
plans you made for the last one.  Or, two, you could modify and fix the
machine you currently have to make it do what you want it to do.

Which would be the wiser course?  Think about it.

To make a new Scouting organization is possible.  It would have to start
small, and would take 50 or more years before it would be anything at all
like the scope that BSA already is.  It would suffer lawsuits and
persecution from the BSA (after all, we want it to be the same except for
some of it's practices).  To me, the redundancy would be so incredible
wasteful to be offensive.

I assume that if it starts to look like the BSA will never change, then
people will start to form an organization that is more secular
(non-religious), and more accepting of differences.  But, on the assumption
that that time won't come for a long time now, I plan to keep working to
make Scouting as good a program as I am possible able.

In what I feel to be True Scouting spirit,
JOhn.

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