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Boy Scouts Ask Open Source Community For Help
Lucas123 writes "The Boy Scouts of America are looking to the open-source community for help in building software to use for fundraisers, special events, and other functions, for their more than 121,000 local scout troops. Some open source advocates, who are former Boy Scouts, support the idea, despite a few reservations. According to the article, there are no plans for a scout merit badge in open source — but there has been a merit badge in computers since 1967, 'and it is possible that if the program is successful, it could eventually be used by IT-savvy scouts themselves.'"
Nah, they just hate gays and atheists//agnostics.
That's interesting, because that goes against their official policy. I'm sure had the local council been made aware of the situation, either you or your troop leader wouldn't have been around much longer. And I'm saying this as someone who knows several people who run one of the regional offices.
Oh, fuck off. Bullshit its bullshit however you label it.
It's speaking the truth which is evidently too much for some types to handle. And who here was advocating violence?
No-one has the right to not be offended.
Actually the BSA doesnt the Mormon church that runs the hate all not mormon part of it.
I'll help them the second they break away from the mormon church and become what they were back before 1983 when the mormosn took over the BSA and twisted it into a hate group and recruiting center for the mormon church.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Thank you! I was about to post something similar with almost every post being "they hate gays and atheists, no I won't help them". Well congratulations, all you assholes just joined their club anyways. Way to fight fire with fire there guys.
On top of that it isn't like there is some grand inquisitor that hunts down the gays or athiests throughout the organization. Most of that nonsense may be the stated position, but it is hardly universally enforced.
When I was a scout ages ago there was never once a discussion regarding homosexuality in any fashion. There were also a number of non church goers that were treated no different. The organization has damned badges for religious study in a wide variety of religions. In fact, what I do distinctly remeber was a great deal of stuff about diveristy and teamwork regardless of background. If you have personally had issues with shitty leadership, then by all means make your specific complaints, but it isn't the whole organization. If you have not been involved and only read the few stories that pop up every now and then...shut the hell up because you are just being an ignorant bigot. If you haven't already noticed bullshit and bad news makes ratings, the good never does.
The minute you latch onto crap like "they all behave like this" you justify "well all the gays do this" or "all the athiests cause that". God forbid you evaluate people on an individual basis. Regardless of group it just takes one shitty leader to fuck something up and wind up in the news, all the good leaders are never heard from.
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.
The ones that lose out are the kids, who have nothing to do with some national organization's bureaucracy or religious/sexual tolerance. I assume you're against OLPC, seeing as they're being sent to nations run by way worse than some homophobes or religious nuts. Why don't you tell them to shove it and develop their own laptops and software?
you stink of ignorance.
But that's the thing it's just a poor excuse to Americanise god and make it ok to have 5 well beaten wives pumping out little drones.
The problem is that in the last 20 or 30 years atheist have tried to make the BSA athiest. Athiest, now, are generally the most adamant about making other people belive like them than the reverse (Dawkins, Brown, etc). Some of the most outspoken atheist have made statements to the effect that religon should be forced out of existance by the government through a muliplicty of methods (taxation, banning signage, criminalizing religious speech). They especially disdain Christians of any sort. It is the atheist right to not belive in any god(s) but it is not their right to remove all religion from the public space.