Reply #57: Your Speech [View All]

[TheWhitneyBrown]

You might add a comment to the effect that as great as the Scouts are, there is always work to be done, and that you hope everyone will join you in working for both a society and a Scout organization that is open and tolerant to all, regardless of nationality, color, religion, and yes, sexual orientation.
Add something about the commitment to find the values we hold in common, rather than the ones that divide us, and etc, etc....Make it a small part of the speech near the end, after you've already won them over....Good luck.

If anyone heckles you, say, look, we love all our children, and anyone can have a gay child. It happened to the VP, it could happen to you, God forbid! And if does, I want he or she here in the scouts learning good values.