Originally Posted by
ratagonia
This is a poor forum for discussing this issue, so let's not get into it too much. NO, the Boy Scouts of America excludes certain boys. Boys who are gay, or who are uncertain whether they are gay or not; and boys who decline to profess a belief in a supreme being. Yes, BSA takes many, many religious beliefs, but they do not take them all. They don't take me. Thankfully, when I was a boy scout, they took atheists, so I was allowed and Boy Scouts was an important part of my upbringing.