Brewmeister

Haven't you heard, "Love the sinner, hate the sin?" How is that rejection? Sounds a lot like acceptance, of the PERSON, to me. I'm sure you wouldn't approve of everything I do in my life. Somewhere along the way we have let what 2% of the population is engaged in define "normal." It's an upside down world.

BD, you are such an idiot.

Perfect comment Scouter99. The die was cast for this the minute the media and the Race Industry made it about a middle aged white guy shooting (someone who was constantly pictured and portrayed as) an 11 year old kid just because he was black. The facts had nothing to do with this case, never have. Just an excuse to advance an agenda.

Around here, we have some scouts that split and sell firewood. Others that plant sweet corn and have a stand. Another that raises and sells nightcrawlers. My daughter who is a Venturer prefers babysitting. Lots of things the thrifty scout can do that don't involve shoveling coal or working in the salt mines.

Well, I'm sure the rules don't apply to you, just to everyone else, as always. So you should be fine.

1st grade is ok, but 2 years of Webelos is 1 too many. My son figured out in the summer camp after Bear year as a new Webelos. Fortunately his birthday aligned with being able to join a troop at the end of 4th grade so he got out after one year.

So when the BSA is ultimately forced to register gay leaders, I'm wondering if we'll have to have a "no dating" provision similar to what currently exists in the Venturing program?

Yeah but we have 7 year old Tiger cubs working as salesmen for Popcorn National, we just call it fundraising. Agricultural work is age 12 with permission I believe. The age for for washing the neighbor's car or mowing the lawn...? Lots of troops also do other year-round sales...candy bars, etc. So sell the bars with the message "My name is Johnny and I am selling these for ME so that I may go to camp next summer."

What we will see next is a push for the legalization of polygamy under similar equal protection arguments because it is, after all, between consenting adults. Then as Scouter 99 points out, we will see consent and "statutory" rape weakened. After all, an 18-year old woman pursuing a 14-year old girl just does not have the same ring to it as an 18 year old man and a 14 year old girl: http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/father_of_18_year_old_lesbian_calls_daughter_s_statutory_rape_charge_unfair. From that point, who knows? Everything moves faster when you're going downhill after all.

Until we drop the school work and have a uniform that looks more like a BDU and less like a corporate-casual desk jockey, scouts will always be uncool.

This is the reason that the Girl Scouts not only disallow ISAs, but have also eliminated the gift card incentives from their sales. Every ISA program that I know of involves the scout going out and selling something on behalf of the BOY SCOUTS. "I'm Johnnie from so-and-so troop and would you like to buy some widgets?" The implication is that the funds support the troop or the program, not the boy's individual account. If a boy wants to raise money for camp, there is a very simple solution: go get a job. That's the only way it is truly on the up-and-up. I predict that sooner or later

Man, GM, I would have told you not to let the door hit you in the rear on the way out. Get a grip!

First, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." Second, pledge your allegiance to your country. It really is not that difficult to understand if you choose to do so.

The bank should be able to freeze the account if your name was taken off fraudulently, or even if you allege the name was taken off fraudulently. Trust me, I've seen it done. The bank does NOT want to be involved with a problem and will lock things down until the unit figures things out. You could also contact local law enforcement especially since this is not being handled correctly by the "proper" channels.

Tell him he'll never agree 100% with any organization he is involved in.

High Noon.

Tell him that if he will only associate with people who agree with him 100% he will be very lonely in life. You have to take the bad with the good in most cases. There are all kinds of immoral behavior that we don't kick people out of scouting for...love the sinner, hate the sin, and so on.

It is entirely possible to join a non-LDS troop while still being in 4th grade--mine did. Arrow of Light is key and that can be earned in 4th grade if a boy is active in scouting.

It is entirely possible to join a non-LDS troop while still being in 4th grade--mine did. Arrow of Light is key and that can be earned in 4th grade if a boy is active in scouting.

Tell him that if he will only associate with people who agree with him 100% he will be very lonely in life. You have to take the bad with the good in most cases. There are all kinds of immoral behavior that we don't kick people out of scouting for...love the sinner, hate the sin, and so on.

While it's pretty clear you are a liberal Ding Dong, you can at least have the intellectual honesty to recognize that conservative groups were given an anal probe by the IRS, the likes of which was not being applied to those on the other side of the government-control spectrum. Plus your "logic" makes no sense unless "grandmas" as a class raise suspicion, in which case searching each and every "grandma" would be a parallel, which is not the case.

It sounds like the OP needs to take some training herself to find out how a pack is supposed to work. I'm still wondering why a husband who "works weekends" has no time to be CM. Are pack meetings on Saturday afternoon? Step up or quit complaining.

Just because no human being can live up to a standard of perfection is no reason to stop trying to do so.

FWIW, here's how we handled this. Patrols were responsible of course for their own menus and quantity planning. Patrol grubmasters were given the option of A) buy it on your own, or B) buy it on such-and-such day when I would be there with a troop check because I was buying for the adult patrol. (Our troop prefers to bill, rather than collect up front. But it does not matter.) Grubmasters did their own thing in the store (so no clogging the aisles) with the troop grumbaster-instructor working with the less-experienced patrol grubmasters. We met up front when everybody was done

That's sad. Backpacking cooking is so much more that eating prepackaged foods and boiling water.