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August 15, 1999
Congratulations on your stand
I congratulate you on the editorial "Scout Policy - Court makes ban on
gays hard to defend," Aug. 7, and remind you that the discriminatory
policies of the Boy Scouts extend to religion as well. The Boy Scouts has
gone so far as to withdraw recognition of the religious awards given to
Unitarian Universalist Scouts because we have challenged them.
Religious people should join with your editorial board in calling upon the
Boy Scouts to do what other youth organizations do: screen volunteers
and have behavioral norms for participants, but without bias and
generalization. To do otherwise is to do a disservice to their role as a
civic organization preparing young men for citizenship in a pluralistic
society.
JOHN BUEHRENS, President, Unitarian Universalist Association,
Boston, Mass.
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