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Re: ?? Religious Symbol on CSP!!
settummanque, or blackeagle (blkeagle@DYNASTY.NET)
Tue, 26 May 1998 09:58:02 -0500
Jay Thal wrote about the CSP with the cross on it:
>If BSA, under the umbrella of being a private organization, encorporates a
>specific religious symbol it further marginalizes itself from the general
>population of youth and families it claims to serve. If, on the other hand,
>BSA's concern is to assure a religious underpinning, or system of belief,
>for those it serves it should accept that peoples have chosen different
>and legitimate paths to express those beliefs and not place one above all
>others.
>
>IMO, the Central N.C. Council patch is an abberation which should not >have
occurred, and which should be withdrawn.
That's probably the reasoning behind the Supply Division making copies of
the CSP available for retail sales outside the Council. Normally, the BSA
Supply folks distribute over-runs and merged/discontinued CSPs as well as
those CSPs with older designs to local Councils all over the nation to "get
rid of".
Settummanque!
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