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Re: A Scout's Duty t...
hilding holroyd (blustone!chagall!hilding@UUNET.UU.NET)
Mon, 11 Jul 1994 14:37:46 EDT
>
> Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com> wrote:
>
> > The idea in Scouting is to promote tolerance of many cultures,
> > beliefs, etc.
> >
> >I wholeheartedly agree. I hope for the time when BSA does as >many
> >other Scouting organization have done: include the belief that there
> >are no supreme beings among the `acceptable' beliefs which will be
> >tolerated.
>
> I see this pretty continually and it never ceases to aggravate me. There is a
> world of difference between "acceptance" and "tolerance" and the two can be
> mutually exclusive. Yes, Scouting teaches tolerance, but it also promotes the
> idea that while we tolerate the behaviors and practices of others, we only
> associate with those of similar character and ideals(I believe this is said
> better in the Boy Scout Handbook under "A Scout is Clean").
>
> Tolerance(as in "live and let live") is a great thing to teach all young
> people. It should help us all overcome the problems in society that cause
> things like gay bashing and wrongful discriminatory practices. Blind
> acceptance of any group of people is a very bad thing to start teaching at
> any age. Failing to teach the difference sounds to me like saying that the
> Constitutional right to free association is an evil thing in and of itself.
>
> Just because I am tolerant of the existance of a given part of society and
> would do nothing to cause harm to came to them doesn't automatically mean
> that I would invite them into my home, do business with them, or invite them
> to join my personal friends at some event.
>
> Jim
>
Hear, Hear!!!
Hilding W. Holroyd Advancement Chairman, Tr 250
Lakewood, NJ Jersey Shore Council
Eagle Class '68 Japeechen Lodge (Brotherhood)
"I used to be a FOX!", NE-IV-54
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