Originally Posted by
SCSportsman
Damn - This sucks. Both my boys are in cub scouts (one in Webelos) and I was leading a den this year. My boys are lucky to have grown up spending time outdoors, going to sporting events and a lot of the other things scouts introduces boys to, but there are many of the boys in our den that have never done any of those things and it's has been good helping them along.
The first two years in cub scouts for my oldest (the Webelo), our den consisted of 10-12 boys and 8 of the boys came to the meetings with their single mom (divorced). All but two of the boys had no experience outside and no help from Dads in making derby cars, etc. I have been having a "derby car" party at my house for the last four years now, which ends up with me in the garage with the scouts cutting out and sanding the cars while all the women folk (and my wife) hang on the porch and have cocktails. Been pretty neat as most of the boys have that typical curiosity and have never seen scroll saws and the like and love it.
Last year I bought all of the boys in one den cane poles and took all of them bream fishing off the bank. It was like Christmas morning for most of them... again, most haven't grown up outdoors.
Now I have a huge decision to make. Do I keep my boys in scouts and continue to help the other boys experience the outdoors and learn about life from a man's standpoint (speaking of those with single moms without much Dad time)? Do I go with my convictions on not letting gays in and drop it? My boys will be fine either way, but the others maybe not so much?
Any by the way, I live in Chapin, which is demographically pretty well off if you know what I mean. Really surprising the percentage of single moms and the percentage of non-outdoor families - computer generation if you will.
Sportsman, you can help those boys out just the same way and not be inthe Scouts. You may also just teach thema huge lesson in moral conviction too if you and they hold dear the values of the scouts which are compromised by this new decision if you continue to support them outside the scouts. Tolerance and condoning things are 2 entirely different ideas which hopefully won't be lost on the boys you've been working with.
\"We say grace and we say maam, if you ain\'t into that, we don\'t give a damn.\" HW Jr.
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