On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:08:02 -0400, KW wrote:

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>"aem" > wrote in message
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>> Yes, that does sound good. It really is a pity that they may also be
>> learning intolerance for non-Christians and gays. -aem
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>First, these boys will not learn intolerance from our current group of
>leaders and I don't appreciate being pre-judged in a public forum by someone
>who doesn't know me from Adam's house cat. If your statement was not meant
>to be prejudicial,
Sounds to me that it was prejudicial.
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>Secondly, even though Boy Scouts were founded on Christian beliefs, you are
>wrong with regards to the non-Christian aspect as the Scouting program
>offers programs for virtually all faiths that believe in a higher power. As
>a matter of fact in the US alone Scouting offers religious award programs
>for Buddism, Judiasm, Islam and others as evidenced here

I am now 65 yoa. when I was 14 and in the scouts, I went to a jewish
scout camp, those who were of a different faith (including me) were
taken to a church in town.
>http://www.scouting.org/awards/relig...rds/index.html
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>Thirdly, I'm not even going to touch the *** comment in this forum, you are
>welcome to decode my email address and take this private and/or send me your
>address and I would be happy to share my thoughts without using up any more
>bandwidth in this forum.
>
>I apologize to those who may see my comments as inappropriate in this
>newsgroup,
Your comments weren't inappropriate, aem's were.

>husly, I can't sit idly by while someone
>takes a poke at something that I see making a huge difference in the lives
>of kids in my own community. What are you doing to make the world a better
>place?

He grinds his ax in a news groups!

Good rant KW

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