As a Cub Scout Webelos leader, I was dismayed upon reading Karen Brandon’s article about the cold shoulder being turned toward the young men in Scouting (“Court ruling didn’t end Scout debate, Towns, schools facing questions of inclusion,” Page 1, Feb. 2).
We are about to embark on a fundraising effort to pass out coupons to friends and family, as well as to people on the street.
I was planning on handing out some coupons on a public street corner downtown, but now I’m having second thoughts. If indeed the Boy Scouts are increasingly being categorized as hate-monger outlaws, what might I now expect from the crowds passing me by? Verbal abuse? Spitting?
The Scouts are responsible for doing so much good by helping the homeless, providing community service, cleaning up the environment, and teaching honesty and responsibility to young boys. For clergy and supposed “do-good” liberals to compare the Scouting organization to the Ku Klux Klan is absurd, if not duplicitous.
The state of the nation has become very distressing indeed when knee-jerk, trendy liberalism turns against 7- to 18-year-old boys.
