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Re: [APO-L] co-ed scouting organizations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brown Michael-EMB021)
Fri Jun 10 09:42:37 2005
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:42:04 -0400
Reply-To: Brown Michael-EMB021 <Michael.R.Brown@motorola.com>
From: Brown Michael-EMB021 <Michael.R.Brown@motorola.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Quite true, and its something the Founder didn't want to see happening, but did. This is because in many cases, these separate organizations are divided along religious line (a Catholic scouting association, a Protestant scouting association, a Jewish one, a Muslim one, an 'all the other religious' one,...)
The Founder's vision is that scouts of ALL faiths would come together in a single organization. Remember Frank Reed Horton's words in the "Story of the Founding of APO" that he was impressed by how the scouts of all faiths worked together within the BSA.
Michael Brown
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From: Randy Finder [mailto:naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU]
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 12:02 AM
To: Brown Michael-EMB021
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Subject: Re: [APO-L] co-ed scouting organizations
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Brown Michael-EMB021 wrote:
> Also, your friend needs to understand that per the Founder, there is
> to be only ONE Scouting Association per country. The BSA is that
> association in the USA. (The GSUSA is the Guiding Association for the
> US).
In some countries this requirement is fulfilled with an "umbrella"
organization with almost no power or organization save electing WOSM delegates. There are two or more separate organizations within the umbrella organization with completely separate programs. Ireland and Germany are examples of that, I believe.
Randy
