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In reply to the discussion: The Ad Altare Dei Award [View all]

NeoGreen

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7. Yep...
Fri Dec 20, 2019, 11:34 AM
Dec 2019

...I did my best to combat those busy-bodies, who would try to force their particular religious indoctrination(s) into our scouting program, while my son was a Boy Scout.

Fortunately, our unit was chartered by a local fire department, so I could always make the 'we don't want to implicitly discriminate against any denomination by embracing any one particular religious element" and thus should keep it to "just scouting" or the observation that the FD is a public entity and can't discriminate, so we shouldn't either.

There was one adult leader who kept suggesting that we should switch our charter to a church (I always noted, with humor, that he only ever mentioned the benefits of chartering with his church) and he inspired me to look up the specific BSA rules on this subject.

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