[UA] UA this one!

[Chad Underkoffler]

> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 08:13:59 -0500
>> SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Three Boy Scouts dug out chunks
>> of a 190 million-year-old set of dinosaur tracks and 
>> threw the rocks into a reservoir, irreparably damaging
>> the prehistoric find, a park ranger said.
>
> "I mean, it's not like they beat up a homosexual or
> something.  THIS is a serious breech of our principles!"

I have to say, this anti-homosexual kick that the BSA is on
truly bothers me. It makes me ashamed to have been a Scout. This
principles I learned in my days seemed to have promoted
tolerance for different sexualities just as it did for different
religions. (The anti-atheist thing bothers me, too, btw.)
I'm pretty sure at least 2 of the guys that were in my in my
troop identify as gay now, openly. They were fine Scouts: one of
them was a decent friend of mine, and the other was an annoying
embarassment-- a *flaming* 11 year old singing "Papa Donb't
Preach" at summer camp is tres embarassing. He had a great voice
thpough, I'll give him that.

As for the dino vandals:
Most likely, they're stupid kids, doing stupid mindless kids
stuff. Note that they were all 15, which was the upper limit on
most of the "older" Scouts, thus probably more full of
punkitude, teenage rebellion, and digging the paramilitary
aspects of Scouting.

Hmmm. I'd be tempted to have a type of BSA organization in
UnderAge... the Junior TOSG type dudes, a la the Demolay Society
or other para-Scouting things. I know that my junior high gaming
group was mostly guys from my Scout troop, and the fascination
with gaming, Rambo, running around the woods with weaponry,
medieval arms and armor, lighting fires, funky electronics,
survivalism, professional wrestling, and weird-ass Hermetic
magic was high.

> -G.
> Missed "Eagle Scout" by THAT MUCH.

Chad
Is an Eagle Scout.



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Chad Underkoffler [chadu at yahoo.com]
http://www.geocities.com/chadu/index.html
"You left out a Hoongadoonga! The most important one, too!"
  - Capt. Jeffrey T. Spaulding (Groucho Marx)

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