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scoutmomma

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  1. What religions does the BSA discriminate against? Unitarian Universalists. Scoutmomma
  2. Pitt -- the University of Pittsburgh -- is not a public university. It is a state-related institution, one of four in Pennsylvania -- the other three being Pennsylvania State University, Temple University and Lincoln University -- as opposed to the 14 state-owned institutions of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, or private institutions such as the University of Pennsylvania. State-related institutions are privately chartered but receive some state funding, which has been dropping steadily over the years -- 25 years ago, it was around 32%. Ten years ago, it was less than 18%. I
  3. Just wanted to say that my understanding in Lisabob's saying that SpiralScouts was not a viable alternative is only because there are so few SpiralScouts troops -- nothing negative implied toward the program itself. Scoutmomma
  4. I knew I had read the explanation of why the flag patch looks like that -- had to dig around a bit, but here it is: http://www.mninter.net/~blkeagle/usflag.htm Scoutmomma
  5. My first post here, and how ironic that it's about an issue that involves my home council. I'd just like to point out that the commentary that Beavah posted by Hans Zeiger did not include the fact (for those who don't know, as I didn't), that Mr. Zieger is not a local resident commenting on the situation. The bio footnoted to the column reads as follows: Hans Zeiger, an Eagle Scout and assistant scoutmaster in Puyallup, Wash., is spokesman for the Scouting Legal Defense Fund, a project of the American Civil Rights Union in Arlington, Va. He is the author of the 2005 book "Get Off My Honor:
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