Well said...
I just completed a weekend camp out, under-the-radar, with my son's Scout troop.
Bowed my head with the rest. However, I didn't stray from our path of thinking and "asking/finding better questions", but I sure do get tired of being bombarded.
They are good people, but they don't see how the Mormons and Catholics (and all the other "faithers"
are warping the program for the wrong reasons.
The BSA is not as I remember it from my kidhood, no one ever asked me if I "believed in god" from Bobcat to Life, ever. So, I have been doing my part to see that my son experiences Scouts as I did.
Fortunately the Troop is chartered by a Fire Dept. Sure makes things a little more tolerable.
I dread the day when I finally come out to the guy who is my son's Scoutmaster. I hope it won't be a major issue to him but I'm not sure. He is a great Scoutmaster and he and I have been working hard for the last few years to build up the Troop. He is a good person and doesn't push or even discuss his own religious views with the Scouts.
In the end, I hope that I will be an example for him to realize the BS value of the official BSA propaganda: "that no member can grow into the best kind of citizen without recognizing an obligation to God..." and that he will be even more tolerant of the next Scout who doesn't buy the story of the big guy in the sky.
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