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@JoeBob: LOL!!!! You're probally right there. How they can advocate for leave-no-trace and promote the ATV program is beyond me! Camp Grizzly (INWC) started the program last year and it's got local law enforcement up in arms. The kids ride right down the middle of the road and if the Forest Service Ranger or Game Warden tries to stop and ticket them they head off into the brush where law enforcement trucks can't follow. I'm a Hunters Education Instructor so I see the Game Wardens faily often, apparently the new ATV program drives them crazy.

@King Ding Dong: What is a “modern†Druid? Now there is a can of worms if ever I saw one! There are as many “denominations†of Pagans as there are denominations of Christians. Basically we can group Druids into three broad categories, paleopagan (Dead People and people who put in the time on archeological and anthropological research to do as the dead people did), mezzopagan (the guys who run around in the white robes) and neopagan (everyone else.) Technically someone isn’t a Druid unless they are a priest or priestess. That would be like a Catholic

Scouter99: I wrote two letters to national and got no response. The official word is that I was not prevented for holding leadership positions, removed as a district trainer, and prevented from completing my ticket because I’m not Christian. I was removed because I refused to adhere to the principals taught at Wood Badge. Basically, I didn’t wear the hat unless forced because in my religion your head is sacred and should not be covered. Then, by asking for religious accommodations I wasn’t following the patrol method because everyone in the patrol has to do the

What non-sectarian means to me and what it means to my council are entirely different. To me it means that a scout must believe in a higher power, but nowhere does it state which higher power. To my Council non-sectarian means non-denominational Christian. At Wood Badge last June I was told that my religion was occult and had no place in Scouting. (I’m Druid; goddess forbid that scouts interact with people who worship nature and count the solstices and equinoxes as holy days!) The upshot of “coming out†as a non-Christian was that I was not allowed to complete my ti