It Is About Time…

I’m glad that the YMCA finally took action against the Boy Scouts. The ends do not justify the means, you cannot teach “good citizenship” by teaching bigotry and discrimination.

YMCA says Scouts must leave over non-discrimination policy
Newsobserver.com
BY Lana Douglas
July 5, 2011

CHAPEL HILL -- Boy Scout Troop 505 and other organizations that do not share the Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA's non-discrimination policy may no longer use its facilities.

The YMCA board decided June 22 to extend its non-discrimination policy, which protects gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees and members, to organizations that meet at the Y's facilities, executive director Jerry Whortan said.

"This decision was based on the Y's responsibility to represent our organization's values in all of our partnerships and relationships," Whortan said.

I was a boy scout and it was a different organization back then. Now, they discriminate against agnostics, atheists, Wiccans and Gays, and that does not build character, but instead teaches that it is OK to discriminate against people who hold different religious beliefs or sexual orientation. Just because they do good deeds dos not make them a good organization, there are many organizations that do good deeds and are considered “hate” groups.

I believe that the Boy Scouts have a right to discriminate because they are a private organization and that the Supreme Court has upheld that right. However, the boy scouts by declaring that right to discriminate cannot not be given public funds or support.