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Kilted_Warrior
Skeptic Friend
Canada
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 Posted - 01/02/2003 : 22:35:50 [Permalink]
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Come to think of it, in Canada our promise is
On my honor
I promise to do my best
to do my duty to God and the Queen
to help other people at all times
and to keep the spirit of the scout law (empasis mine)
and our law is less spiritual, and more lifestyle choices.
A scout is honest, trusworthy, kind, cheerful, considerate, clean and wise in the use of all rescources.
not much bad there, eh
Originally I posted a lot of links to BSA websites that gave evidence to their anti-gay and anti-athiest stances, but thier website always would redirect me when I tried using their links, instead go to www.scouting.org and click on position statements, or go to site map and find the 'Values' section, and see what they really think.
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| Edited by - Kilted_Warrior on 01/02/2003 22:43:22 |
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Kilted_Warrior
Skeptic Friend
Canada
118 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2003 : 22:51:01 [Permalink]
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Here's a few quotes from another page on the website (www.scouting.org) called "In Support of Values"
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The bedrock of Scouting's values is literally and figuratively ... duty to God ... "On my honor, I will do my duty to God and my country ..." To Scouting, the question is NOT: Can a person be honorable without a belief in God? Rather, our commitment is that no child can develop to his/her fullest potential without a spiritual element. The Boy Scouts of America is not a religion ... it is an organization with strong religious tenets. It is a movement that is committed to developing the entire child ... spirituality is very important in that total development. That is why we hold to duty to God. Whether it is the Judeo-Christian ethic; or a Buddhist, Protestant, Mormon, Catholic, or Native American ethic; or that of any of the other great religions of our world, the Boy Scouts of America is committed to the proposition that no child can develop to his/her fullest potential without a spiritual element in his/her life.
The whole article can be found on the sitemap
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