From: Ted Burton (scouter@CONSULTBURTON.COM)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 20:55:45 CST
At 11:41 -0500 on 2/11/00, Bob Lazell spake about Re: Re: A
Scout is Reverent thus:
>This is not a challenge, but, a question: How can this be seeing how
>BSA is by it's own charter a nonsectarian organization? My guess is
>that this mightfall under accepted standards and practices rather
>than law?
If Troops were subsidiaries of BSA, that would be true. However, a
Troop is chartered by a charter organization which agrees to make use
of the BSA program. Within the parameters of the BSA program, a Troop
may or may not be associated with a particular religion. On the other
hand, a Troop may be proscribed on pain of losing the charter
partner, from having any preference at all, if the partner is a
public agency (police explorers/venturers, for example).
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