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The most important advice is ensure you use your best customer service skills. You are in the business of providing a service to every single scout or scouter that comes through the camp. It is really easy too.

For scouts, give them a quality program, this is what they came to camp for. Know the stuff you are supposed to teach them. Ask your Area Director before camp which merit badges/classes you will teach and study the material BEFORE you get to camp. Know the pamphlets inside and out and acquire any other materials you can to give the best possible result.

For scouters, simply treat them with the respect that they deserve as a volunteer helping scouts come to camp. As a young Area Director my program area always had one staff member that was not teaching a class at any one time during the day. I taught this staff member to watch the front gate and whenever a scouter entered the area they were to walk over to them and gree them with a "Good Morning(Afternoon/Evening) Sir (Ma'am) is there anything I can do for you today." And if there is anything they desire which is in your power to do, do it. If it is something you can not do, direct them to your Area Director as soon as possible.

Thats all there is to it.

From what I have seen the form "the Church" is most usage usually refers to the Catholic one.

Plus traditional Catholics would say that there is only one Church. ; )

http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/_PDFArchives/roman-catholicism/RC1W0501.pdf

The Church even says that if mitigating circumstances exist, not even the gravest sin

merits eternal punishment. It teaches that for a sin to be mortal, three conditions must be

met:

The sin must be serious. The evil act must be a grave offense against God or someone else.

The sinner must be aware. The one performing the act must have full knowledge that

what he is doing is grievously wrong.

The sin must be deliberate. The sinner must know he can resist the temptation, yet

willfully choose to do evil.

Should the sin not meet one of these requirements, it does not merit eternal punishment

no matter how evil the act might be.

In practice these conditions become ready-made excuses for lawlessness. Consider, for

example, a person who has displayed a low ability to resist a certain sin. According to

Roman Catholic theology, his sin may not be completely deliberate: The freedom of our

will can be impeded by our natural disposition, the influence of improper upbringing, internal or external compulsion, or the force of violent and sudden passion.7 If a person in

such a condition were to commit a gravely evil sin, therefore, it is not a mortal sin.

I don't really know where that came from.

I don't really disagree.

I think Congress should declare war more. I don't know how much exactly. For example Jefferson never declared war on the Barbary Pirates. It seems nowadays Congress likes to pawn the decision off on the President like with Iraq.

I think Congress should exercise its powers to design federal courts to create some which can successfully try terrorists or whatever you wish to call them in a court-martial like fashion. It seems they should be treated like pirates in the days of yore. I would not consider them entitled to Bill of Rights protections unless of course they were American citizens. Just like the German spies dropped here during World War II were not.

Beavah, perhaps you are making the "all men" a bit more universal then the Declaration of Independence does. It seemed to relate more to the American political community - white men (and in some places on Protestant ones). Women, slaves, Indians were pretty much not included.

And though such rights are inalienable the community does have the right to punish wrongdoers. Those convicted of crimes are deprived of their life or liberty sometimes.

Now you're dragging me into the weeds!

I suppose the best thing to do in such a circumstance is to ask a priest. They could tell someone far better than I on such a challenging question.

Doesn't it still go to the intent though, needed to sin. If the lady had chemo to stop cancer with a chance of killing the baby, she did not intend to kill it.

I don't claim to be an expert in theology. But I think I recall my Catholic priest in his homily two weeks ago was talking about sin and said it required intent.

I am also in a recession proof career right now. I am very fortunate for that. I recently graduated school and many of the people I went with are having quite a hard time finding jobs.

Like everyone I lost a huge chunk of my investments. Not really worried about that though since I have faith in the market and know it always goes up. I'm a young man and figure I have a long way until retirment. Figure it kinda works better for me as I can buy into the market really low and it can really only go up.

My biggest worry is the long term value of the dollar. The way money is being spent and the government goes deeper into debt, I can not see the dollar remaining strong. In the end it does not matter how much money I have when it comes time for retirement. It matters how much those dollars are actully worth . . .

One of the jobs of the Federal Reserve when it was created in 1913 was to hold the value of the dollar. They haven't done a good job at that. A 1913 dollar would be worth mere pennies today. I fear this trend will accelerate greatly as we contine down with this fiscal mess at a rate never saw before.

Remember the Weimar Republic anybody?

ASM 915,

Doesn't a sin require intent? Therefore a woman could not be held responsible for accidentally killing her baby.

Pinkflame,

I assure you that you make a quite artificial distinction. So it is ok to support the murder of babies? Those people should keep working with Scouts?

But someone who supports valid property rights is not?

I am afraid I don't get it.

Are some things above criticicm and some not? Perhaps the fact that the murder of babies in our society is still debated, it is ok to support. That doesn't seem right at all either.

To me this is the worse of all crimes of human history. The amount of dead in our own country even far outstipes the genocide of the Jews that ASM 915 brings up. And the babies were more innocent than anyone, ever, but still paid the ultimate price.

John,

That is a different argument about the good of the scout camp. Mine was about a quality place to bring up a proper young lady.

So it comes down to the fact that choice is only good when we like the results.

We don't like Americans owning certain articles of property. That's inhuman!

But its ok to kill American babies. Not inhuman.

Hypocrisy anyone?

I care for little about the "rights" of anothers property. It is all in the way you look at it. I am quite sure you wouldn't have given a damn about the rights of the slaveholders.

I will support the right of an American slaveholder over an African slave anyday.

DanKroh, murder is murder however you wish to paint it.

Packsaddle, there is a big difference on what states have (had) the right to do under the Constitution and what we think they should do (slavery for example). As a supporter of states rights I support the right of states to do many things that I disagree with. Anyway your premise is silly. Black slaves were not citizens and I would accord a free baby rights a slave did not have.

I think it is disingenuous to call such a position hypocrisy. If one thinks abortion is murder the government has a clear right to deter murder.

The best experience I ever had in this regard was when as a young Scout I sent a letter to my representative for Citizenship in the Nation. I got a nice letter back and a large packet regarding the bill I wrote about.

The woman is at least an accomplice to the murder.

Sir I will go out on a limb and say I will NEVER murder someone.

It should come down to who kills the baby.

Just not a good place to raise a proper young lady.

"By enumeratin' prohibited practices, yeh allow everything else."

The original argument why the Bill of Rights was not in the Constitution.

Gern, why is death the answer to everything with you? Ever hear of life-imprisonment?

All that sounds nice and fancy. But for those of us who believe in life, it comes down to a few simple facts.

Abortion is murder. Murder should be illegal. Those who murder should be punished.

All your crossing state borders, inability to stop the murder, etc arguments do not mean anything.

Were the Japs signatories to the Geneva Conventions?

If so the American servicemen were protected.

"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs once launched never disappear. Actually a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life that we shall ever see on this earth." -Ronald Reagan

There are problems leaving the concept of worthiness to individuals. What if I think the mass of cells that is my neighbor is not worthy? Can I kill him?