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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Off-Topic Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 10:02 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — Eagle Scout Darrell Lambert has earned 37 merit badges, worked more than 1,000 hours of community service and helps lead a Boy Scout troop in his hometown. But the 19-year-old has another distinction that may lead to his removal from the Boy Scouts: He’s an atheist. Last week, Lambert was given roughly a week by the Boy Scouts’ regional executive to declare belief in a supreme being and comply with Boy Scout policy, or quit the Scouts. The official and Lambert were to talk again this week regarding Lambert’s answer, although a definite date hadn’t been set by Tuesday. “We’ve asked him to search his heart, to confer with family members, to give this great thought,” Brad Farmer, the Scout executive of the Chief Seattle Council of the Boy Scouts, told The Sun of Bremerton. “If he says he’s an avowed atheist, he does not meet the standards of membership.”<p>***My father, who was a Scout leader for decades, died 11 years ago, so I'll respond on his behalf: Baloney!***
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pzicari	Post subject: Re: Off-Topic Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 12:18 am
Joined: Thu Jun 20, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 131 Location: Cleveland, OH	***My father, who was a Scout leader for decades, died 11 years ago, so I'll respond on his behalf: Baloney!***[/QB][/QUOTE]<p>I was a Scout for years back in the '60s, and at the time nobody made a big deal about it. I even took the God & Country badge, cluelessly, and passed even though a religious fellow student said afterward that I simply hadn't gotten the point. Something changed, and perhaps not for the better. I wonder if Scouts are any better behaved...
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Rio	Post subject: Re: Off-Topic Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 4:31 am
Joined: Thu Apr 11, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 887 Location: U.S.A.	I was a Scout in the '70s, and it was still a nonissue then as well.<p>Something has happened to Scouting. As "60 Minutes" pointed out about a year ago, the organization has been pretty much taken over by extremely conservative religious groups, which are now dictating policies of intolerance, much to the chagrin of much of the rank-and-file membership.
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Guest	Post subject: Re: Off-Topic Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 6:43 pm
	I've lost track ... is NRA membership a prerequisite for entry into the Boy Scouts, or is it still optional?
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