...to God and my country...
Scouting as I knew it
Personally, I disagree strongly with that ban, but I also understand why it persists. Attitudes toward gays may have changed dramatically, but some institutions simply cannot adapt as quickly as others. Scouting, with its core in small-town America, was always going to be one of the last to make that change.
�Jay Bookman/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Common Dreams 10.02.0