Can everyone writing blog posts about the Boy Scouts of America please make sure to never drop the “of America” in the title of the blog post?
It gives the rest of us Scouts worldwide a bad name.
I’m an active volunteer in Scouting here in Austria. I am an atheist. I work together with believers and non-believers alike. I have worked with gay volunteers. There has never even been any discussion of “membership requirement” or any such exclusionary practices. Scouting has always been about Tolerance and Inclusion.
Every time some blogger writes “The Boy Scouts” instead of “Boy Scouts of America”, someone elsewhere on the planet reads it and does not know that the problem is basically limited to the US and to countries where gay people have worse problems than being kept out of the Scouts. A perfectly friendly, open, tolerant and inclusive local scout organisation will have to spend extra effort on public relations.
So, please keep the headlines unambiguous.
