THE father of a 9-year-old Cub Scout revealed this week that he had been forced out of a Boy Scouts of America leadership role and ordered not to wear its uniform because of his homosexuality. Jon Langbert of Dallas, Texas, who is openly gay, told HLN’s “Prime News” that he had been wearing the shirt [...]
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A $1.4-million damages award this week to an Oregon man has severely dented the reputation of the Boy Scout movement in America, and the Church of Latter Day Saints. A Portland jury awarded damages to Kerry Lewis, 38, after the court heard of the abuse he suffered at the hands of Timur Dykes, an assistant [...]
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NOT a lot of people know this, but in 1937 Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts movement, got all cosy with senior Nazis in an attempt to form closer ties with the Hitler Youth movement. He was even invited to meet his hero, Adolf Hitler. This will come as no surprise to anyone who [...]
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 BARACK Obama’s historic victory in the US Presidential elections has left the Christian Right in America in a tatters – and a state of deep gloom. But few are so deeply upset as the nutters over at Focus on the Family Action, led by the egegious homophobe James Dobson, who had fervently prayed for [...]
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WHY, I wonder, do headline writers insist on using the term “family campaigners” to describe the likes of Stephen “Birdshit” Green, and the equally odious Catholic Tory MP Ann Widdicombe, when a far more accurate description would be “ignorance merchants”? The Telegraph did it again today when they turned to Green and Widdicome for predictable [...]
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WHY would any self-respecting young atheist want to join an organisation originally launched by a devious, authoritarian imperialist, and racist to boot? Furthermore, Lord Baden-Powell detested atheists, intellectuals, and socialists, and suggested a bonding of the Boys Scouts with the Hitler Youth Movement. We ask the question because the Boy Scouts were in the news [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
