Johnny Walker Wrote:
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> Registered Voter Wrote:
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> > Sorry, but don't you think it is best to avoid
> a
> > potential problem? Not allowing openly gay men
> to
> > be leaders is a better safe than sorry issue.
> Just
> > look a the Catholic Church with their issues
> and
> > that is enough said on that. As far as atheists
> > go, please show some examples of that - I have
> > never heard of them banning atheists - sounds
> like
> > a boogeyman to me.
>
>
> Gays are not automatically child molesters and
> neither are priests and it is frankly very bigoted
> to insinuate that. As for atheists, the Boy Scouts
> have indeed thrown out atheist children and
> atheist scoutmasters. No doubt these people were
> trying to prove a point for attention to their
> terrible plight and could have continued quietly
> going about their business and not bringing up
> their non-belief in God but it has happened.
Here's a good discussion on a blog about the issue - the person writing the blog was an agnostic/atheist that made Eagle Scout.
The Fired Atheist
http://blog.thehumanist.com/?p=1524
If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University