The extent differs from place to place. You aren't in Utah, are you?brewster wrote:Christian? No, not in any reality, only in your mind.Okeefenokee wrote:Lordy.
How many times can we remember Dems politicizing the boy scouts, a christian organization, in the past ten or so years?
GrumpyCatFace wrote:Dumb slut partied too hard and woke up in a weird house. Ran out the door, weeping for her failed life choices, concerned townsfolk notes her appearance and alerted the fuzz.
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Trump would start to talk about himself and present politics if he was giving an eulogy in a funeral as the President of the US.brewster wrote:Is it really beyond this person that a speech to children shouldn't be political? They invited him as they've invited the last 19 presidents. Why does he have to dirty everything he touches? My son is an Eagle Scout, we looked past the public issues the scouts have had and saw the good. The Scouts have tried hard to bring themselves into the modern world and not be viewed as a reactionary old guard institution. This abuse of trust and good faith is as disgusting.
TRUMP: ...And he went out and bought a big yacht, and he had a very interesting life. I won’t go any more than that because you’re Boy Scouts, so I’m not going to tell you what he did.
AUDIENCE: Booo --
TRUMP: Should I tell you? Should I tell you?
AUDIENCE: Yes!
TRUMP: Oh, you’re Boy Scouts, but you know life. You know life. So -- look at you. Who would think this is the Boy Scouts, right?
The fact that the LDS Church basically made Scouts mandatory doesn't mean that the scouts are a Christian organization. The dominance of LDS in Scouts leadership was the basic problem in the inclusion issue.Okeefenokee wrote:
The extent differs from place to place. You aren't in Utah, are you?
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I actually didn't know the exact history but it's pretty much as I expected. Bigotry doesn't change much.TheReal_ND wrote:Wtf? Like colored kids? This isn't the right wing youth squad...
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/30/170585132 ... ntegrationFor much of the early 20th century, the Scouts' national leadership did not endorse segregation or discrimination but still gave wide discretion to councils to set their own racial policies. Unsurprisingly, many chapters — especially in the segregated South — opted not to admit black Scouts. Some troops imposed long waiting periods before letting blacks join, while others allowed black boys to join but prohibited them from wearing uniforms. (Boy Scout officials in Richmond, Va., once even threatened to stage a public burning of Scout uniforms if black boys were permitted to wear them.) And while the first black troop was formed in 1911, just a year after the Boy Scouts' founding, it wasn't until decades later that many troops eased their rules on segregation, and not until 1974 when the aforementioned Old Hickory council — one of the last segregated Boy Scout councils — finally integrated.
Freedom of association is oppression and shiet. How dare you deprive brown people of your presence.but still gave wide discretion to councils to set their own racial policies
You had a point here and then as usual. you overplay your hand. "The road to the end of our democracy" this aint, you overly dramatic bitch.brewster wrote:In both those cases it's private citizens expressing themselves, not an elected official in his official capacity. Putting party before country is definitely the road to the end of our democracy.Kazmyr wrote:We've already crossed the Rubicon of politicizing everything.
Think of how many graduation speeches have railed on Trump as of late, or alternatively had the graduating students throw a hissy fit at the speaker (Betsy DeVos).
It's the American M.O., now.
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