Looks Like Obama Will Take the Boy Scouts Up on Their Offer...

From the American Humanist Association:

(Washington, D.C., March 03, 2009) Humanists are reacting to a comment today from a Boy Scouts of America spokesperson stating that President Barack Obama has indicated he will accept the title of honorary president of the BSA.

"If President Obama does this, it will send an implicit message to nontheists that discrimination against them is permissible," said Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association.

In a White House meeting this afternoon, Obama officially received the Boy Scouts' 2008 Report to the Nation. Every U.S. president since William Howard Taft has served as honorary head of the Boy Scouts.

As I stated before I was a scout for much of my youth and loved every minute of it but that was really before the Mormon Church took over and started to exclude Atheists and Homosexuals.

I'm a bit disappointed in this I really thought that Obama may reject the scouts offer due to his mother beliefs (or lack there of). The only way that the boy scouts will change is with public pressure. We have to take a stand and take back scouting from the church. One of Americas best institutions for children is teaching them intolerance and we cannot stand for that. It kills me that something so important to me now wants to exclude people like me.