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Interesting. You couldn't pay the kids here to wear them. Uniform is ball caps, not neckerchiefs.

I am caution about adult Eagles. I have found they are usually no better or worse than any other active adult. Most of our best volunteers were never Eagles.

Heck, most units around here don't wear those things. American kids are not going to be caught dead in them. Unit t-shirts are more common....and desired. At least for the kids in my state.

Picture an all day RT atmosphere with sock puppets and 1980s videos about stranger danger in a hot room with 50 other people who don't want to be there. That's face to face YPT.

I'm from CA but I learned MT real fast. I am sure he can too.

The point being that you cannot pinpoint things in psychiatry as well as you can in other part of medicine. There is no conclusive evidence one way or the other about how one forms their sexual identity. Is in innate? Is it observed?

That's what I suspected. Inconclusive.

I was talking about hard science, i.e., biology and not psychiatry. I was talking about learned versus innate behaviors. The APA thinks you are what you are born with. The hard evidence for that position is lacking and far from conclusive.

I don't think the development team was very big from what I hear.

In my district it is the district training chair who will sign. They then hand it back to you and you take it to the Scout Shop and go get your knot. I know some council shops that will have someone at their service center sign too. I hear other shops simply let you walk in and buy the knots. If you attend RT you can probably get someone on the district committee to sign. Our DE is never there but someone will sign.

Are you talking Fat Tuesday in the CBD? Or are you talking ANY Mardi Gras parade? Because 95% of the crewes and parades are pretty darn tame. It's Fat Tuesday and specific parades that are the more flamboyant ones. I haven't been to any gay pride parades so I cannot say whether they are mostly like Barry says or not. But Mardi Gras is a bad example if you are comparing all of the parades in total versus just Rex or Endymion or Zulu or a specific one.

I can't see it in my district dashboard...but there's nothing there so I suspect the tool is not used much.

...except in 1974 in Saigon.

ROFL...this was a fun read...mostly to see how deluded the organization is and how they are enamored with shinny objects like this meaningless value system. My few observations: The loyalty score took a bit hit in fall 2013 after the spring 2013 policy change. I can only image the drop they will take in 2015. The recommendation for scouting to friends (by those in scouting) is REALLY low. That's a HUGE problem but looking at the BSA annual program plan and objectives there is nothing in there to proactively address the root cause of these issues. Hardly anyone sees RTs are worth their tim

So it all comes back to motivating parents to help. Frankly, that's a HUGE task for volunteers. We already have so many things we need to do just to keep the program vibrant and exciting, to add parent/family therapy to the mix is a bit much. In my opinion, BSA needs to spend money to investigate how to engage and train parents; how to put a boot up their bum and teach them that involvement in their kid's future is a GOOD thing. Right now most 20- and 30-something's are too narcissistic to care about anyone other than themselves. BSA needs to lead this effort. It's too big for units

Yes, I think it's required there for any council camp over 72 hours. Not sure if it's state wide or just the Dallas area (cousin lives there). If the unit has a good training coordinator they can run quarterly reports to keep people current. Takes 10 mins and would save adults from having to waste 30-60 mins every year. @@CubDaycampDirector, in Boy Scouts the additional training (safe swim, safety afloat, weather) is required for at least one leader on every outing. The tour permit requires it. Our unit made the decision a long time ago to make that training mandatory for all SM

There was one five years ago. Just a matter of time before this happens in Boy Scouts. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/crossdressing-7-year-old-boy-allowed-to-join-girl-scouts

My.scouting.org unless it's down or lost your data.

Really? Because there is evidence that abuse, alcoholism, etc., are also tied to inherited behavior as you suggest sexuality is. HOWEVER, the scholars mostly agree that it is also a learned set of behaviors. I have seen nothing that definitively proves sexuality is an innate characteristic or behavior.

I have only heard of councils requiring face to face YPT if you are going to one of their camp.

It sounded as if he was just naive enough to think that scouts didn't have gay people in it because of the policy...and that he felt "safe" putting his kids in scouts because he didn't expect them to have contact with gay people as a result of this misplaced belief. I'd be stunned if he actually thought that he could keep his kids away from gay people anywhere else, just that he had an expectation that they would not be in scouts due to the previous policy.

I interpreted the man's disbelief as rooted in his belief that gays could not possibly be in scouts prior to 2013 and upon the comment suggesting they (gays) might have been there all along, just under the radar, is what amazed him (turned him white). The analogy still stands because his belief of where was and what organization he belonged to (his house) was not where he thought it was (nice neighborhood) and something he did not support and found offensive was actually there. It's not exact, but it's an analogy...they're supposed to be close but not exact. They're illustrative.

Marine and Navy color guard have been instructed to salute the ensign as soon as it is clear of your grasp according to chapter 7 of the MCDC manual. Cannot speak for AF and Army. They might not do it right for obvious reasons.

One of our Instructors built a spreadsheet with each scout's name and two tabs. One had the old requirements, the other the new requirements. Using lookup he was able to track each group. When he left the troop for college he made it a template which Instructors since have passed down. Hasn't been needed since 2011 but I have another techie volunteer scout who is updating it now for 2016. Got to love technical kids!

The Marines taught it. They did not teach the etymology of how it just became "two" and not a full two-part command. Haven't seen anyone explain that yet. Probably just laziness by non-military units trying to use a two-part command.