<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The Boy Scouts also refuse to admit boys who do not believe in a god, thereby rejecting Buddhists, Confucianists, agnostics and atheists. This is in addition to their rejection of boys who are gay. They do not deserve public funding. The Girl Scouts of America, however, have no discriminatory policies at all. If the Girl Scouts can be open-minded, there there is no excuse why the Boy Scouts can't be also. That is why the Boy Scouts do not deserve taxpayers' money and the Girl Scouts do.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Ralph Nielsen</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 21.0px 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; "><b>Donovan Arnold</b> <a href="mailto:vision2020%40moscow.com?Subject=%5BVision2020%5D%20Fw%3A%20%5BSpam%205.86%5D%20BE%20OUTSIDE%21&In-Reply-To=205d9f81e5100a816cd9789606cb8636%40turbonet.com"><font color="#000af1" style="color: #000af1"><u>donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com </u></font></a></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times"><i>Mon Feb 2 23:20:00 PST 2009</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Roger,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Boy scouts does take public money. In doing so, they SHOULD NOT be allowed to discriminate against teenagers and staff because of their sexual orientation. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">If you disagree, you disagree. But I think it is wrong.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">I also think any organization that discriminates against children, teens, and staff on the basis of sexual orientation, disability, and race is wrong. Children cannot escape the discrimination because they have to attend public schools with their peers that are also in this social organization that teaches being like them is wrong. What does this do to the self esteem of a teenager in a small town when all the boys his age are BS but he cannot join because he is gay? Teenagers have a difficult enough time fitting in with the group without adults creating additional meaningless divisions.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Comparing religion is not the same, IMHO because religion relates to following a higher power of the State, the Boy Scouts is not. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Best Regards,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">Donovan</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div>
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