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  1. You joined the grouping KNOWING of this policy!! I hope someone joins something you hold dear and totally changes it to something you can't abide by so you can walk a mile in our shoes.

     

    You don't know me and you don't know when I became a scouter and yet you make this false claim as if you actually know something. You don't.

    I was a scouter for years prior to the previous policy and didn't know about that policy until a DE blind-sided me (and the rest of the Pack) with a diatribe on this subject at our B&G. Until that moment, it hadn't been mentioned at RT, or in any of the notices sent from the council. I'll give that DE this much credit: at least he was honest.

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  2. Recent court cases make it pretty clear that when church organizations open their doors to accommodate non-members, they put the ability to exercise their own religious freedoms at risk.

     

    Down the road, this will prove to be an untenable, no-win situation. Church-owned units will either have to entrench, which defeats both the purpose and spirit of Scouting, or disband their units.

     

    Packsaddle and NJ are 100% wrong. This will not add to our choices and freedoms. It is not a good thing.

     

    Please cite the cases that make what you claim clear.

  3. Bad Wolf, I'm sorry you feel that it is somehow bad that your ability to impose YOUR values on me and my grandchildren has diminished with this policy change. But I guess that's to be expected.

    I have always advocated individual choices and freedoms. This policy change is a step in that direction.

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  4. I wish I could predict what my grandsons will do. They're not old enough yet for cubs. But I recognize that with all the different alternatives out there, they and their parents will make the best decision they can for their own interests. I will support whatever they decide, but there is no way that I'm going to intrude on that decision. I will only offer my support however they decide.

  5. I'll be on the trail on Tuesday. Just a segment. There was a time that I would blast through everything. Today, I like to experience everything, just sit once in a while and listen and watch everything around me and enjoy the experience. It takes forever to get there but it isn't a race anymore.

    That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

  6. I took a 6-week, around-the-continent camping trip with my daughter. We shared the tent. She was 18yo. The only problem was my snoring and an occasional banana slug intruder in the Pacific NW.

    Scouter99, you linked to a previous thread about a 'touching' incident. I point out that the touching was by another boy and there was no information about the contact itself nor its context. We basically don't know much about that incident.

  7. Buy a bolt of 45" cotton or cotton blend material.  My boys picked blaze orange.

     

    Cut 36" squares.

     

    My wife then double surges the edges so they don't need to be hemmed.  She has thus far used black thread for the boys and white thread for the adults.  The next patrol can pick another color.  She surged the edges twice because the first time around they looked kinda bad.  Second surge took care of that.

     

    there are no other markings on the neckers.

     

    Fold in half diagonally.

     

    Stosh, That's what this unit does too. If the patrols want to they can 'customize' with a design. I have a really nice mug. It says, "Don't let the turkeys get you down" and has a cartoon of a turkey. Got it one Thanksgiving.

     

    Moggie, that is a great photo. It says it all, what a great-looking group!

     

    SSScout, a tool is the way I remember it too. That's why we rejected the small triangle and went with homemade...so they can actually be used for all sorts of things. You can actually use one to immobilize a sprained ankle for example. I still have some of the old triangles, though. Maybe in 100 years I can make some money on eBay, lol.

  8. Neither of you has attempted to explain why Scouts should participate in activities like those photos, but those photos shouldn't be in view of Scouts.  If you find the behavior of these people in their cultural showcase to be wholly inappropriate, why do you want them to register in your unit so badly?

     

    Thinking error lesson: I have not (and I'm fairly certain that NJ hasn't either) made any such assertion in the first place. You falsely claimed that we did.

  9.  For a few of the questions, on this very subject, the answer is evasive or incomplete. I thought the whole idea of a FAQ is that the answerer writes the questions and then answers them. You don't often see a FAQ where the person apparently wrote a question and then evades the question, or ignores parts of it.

     

    Thanks, I missed that part. I can use this as an example of how NOT to create answers to questions.

  10. And as to your tag line?  It offers such little comfort because on this Scouting values oriented forum that's exactly what we're doing!

     

    "We"? Only a very few of "us" seem to be completely consumed and obsessed with things sexual in these forums.

    I will be very happy to delete any and all such discussion in the future. Is that what you advocate?

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