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I was a scout for a long time, made it to eagle and everything, and my guess is that the program's intolerance for things is directly proportional to its degree of religiosity/Christianity. That is to say, if you belong to a troop in a region well known for fundamentalism or conservative Christianity, then the troop will likely reflect that. If you don't, it won't. When I was in scouts, I don't recall encountering any institutional ignorance. Just the usual smatterings of homophobes/racists, etc, that were no more pronounced than at public school in the '80s. And in scouts as in school, I felt it my duty to tell those assholes to shut the fuck up.
That said, my elder girl is asking about Girl Scouts, which I don't know shit about except that I don't want to sell cookies.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 September 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link