[21084] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] MORE APO-BSA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William J Turner)
Thu Jul 27 09:41:06 2000
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:33:08 -0400
Reply-To: William J Turner <wjturner@MATH.NCSU.EDU>
From: William J Turner <wjturner@MATH.NCSU.EDU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
I admit I haven't been following this discussion (if you want to call it that)
very closely. Frankly, I've found the little I've read an very overly
dramatic. I could join in and list list my entire resume and also my feelings
about homosexuals and the Supreme Court's decision to somehow give my statements
validity, but I don't see how anyone else's have done it, so I won't bore you
all.
If the reason, as Brother Michaelis states, that the BSA is different from other
youth organizations is that they hold a voting seat in the National Board of
Directors, and not our historic ties with them, then maybe that vote should be
the focus of any discussion, and not who the BSA does or doesn't allow to join
their organization. We as a fraternity have moved away from have a relationship
strictly with the BSA and to working with other youth organizations as well.
This is embodied in our scouting advisors and how they are no longer necessarily
affiliated with the BSA. Maybe we should reflect this similarly on the national
board.
This is just a thought. I don't necessarily advocate removing the vote from the
BSA's representative to our national board. I only offer this as a possible
solution which others might want to embrace or amend.
