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Emac44
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the program has taken its knocks from all over the world and unjustly so, the equality thinige comes to mind which it total rubbish. chris do it man, your boys will thank you down the road like mine did a couple years after when he went to the ukraine and lived out of holes ans shacks for 3 weeks, he learned in scouts to be sociable and work as a team but i also taught him privately and through scouts to make it on his own like i tired to do with the older guys who ran up through eagle scout, one became an army sniper in iraq, another a front line medic.
more than ever on this earth the scout program needs to be supported in every way, too many boys are being dumped with no dads, dads that don't and will not take responsiblity for their actions and be a father. over the years i have talked one on one with too many single mothers trying to give their son's a good outlook on life and maybe some hope for the undecided future.........i don;t want this to be political in any way but if some clown in the whitehouse-she or he gets elected you will find the program will probably be torn down and removed altogether, that is just my personal gut feeling
Yes I know Erich. Some one put a thread about that mob of Civil Liberterian Wankers or whatever they call themselves taking the Boy Scouts of America to Court and it went as far as the US Supreme Court. Bloody Political Correctness trying to butt in where its not wanted or warranted. Trying to tear down an Institution that devotes itself to youngsters enjoying themselves and forming friendships, It really annoys me Erich, I think the Supreme Court found in favour of the US Boy Scout Movement. Basically if I remember the Civil Libs were getting themselves worked up about the Scout Promise and something to do with Homosexuality being barred from the Scout Movement. But do these Cvil Libs bother to see that we have Scouts who are wheelchair bound. Whose only avenue to be and excepted as an individual as by the Scouting Movement. These Kids with all their emotional and physical problems seek and find support from the Scouting Movement. And these arsehole Civil Libs want to tear that all down.
And Erich my son has never been a Scout. But thats ok I was a Scout and as his father I have passed onto him as his father the idealism as of not only being a parent and father but I try to be an effective role model for him. I came across a lot of kids in my work in my Church as KUCA CHURCH LEADER (Kids Uniting Church Australia). Kids who were hurting. They didn't see their parents or were lost in the system or were trying to cope with their parents divorcing. I had a few one on ones with some kids. I hope I did some good mate. It helped me when I divorced my ex Wife and I had to apply the same with my own Kids. And if I was instrumental in bringing some kid to Jesus Christ (and I pray I was ) then I achieved something worthwhile for some one not just myself Erich