Boy Scouts of America need a moral compass

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/13867031-452/boy-scouts-of-america-need-a-moral-compass.html

BY NEIL STEINBERG [e-mail] July 19, 2012 6:34PM

Poor Little Black Fellow” is a short story by Langston Hughes. You can find it in his first collection, The Ways of White Folks, published in 1934.

It’s the tale of Arnie, the only child of a pair of black servants, who both die, leaving the Pembertons, a wealthy white couple, to raise the infant “as their Christian duty.”

Which the couple gamely tries to do. Yes, they at first refer to the baby as “it” but also treat him with a sort of kindness, the only black child in a town that tolerates his presence with an almost hysterical acceptance.

“Throughout the years the whole of Mapleton began to preen itself on its charity and kindness to Arnie,” Hughes writes. “One would think that nobody in the town need ever again do a good deed: that this acceptance of a black boy was quite enough.”

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1. These people think they "own" the moral compas.

Religious organizations host/sponsor over 60% of the approximately 123,000 Scouting units in the United States and use the Scouting program as part of their youth ministration. Officials from various religious organizations—including the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), Catholic, Methodist, Lutheran, and Presbyterian churches—are included on the BSA National Executive Board, its Advisory Council, and the BSA Religious Relationships Committee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_membership_controversies