Discriminatory Policy of Boy Scouts of America Doesn't Produce "the Best Kind of Citizen," Foundation Points Out
Free Thought Today, June, 2004
This press release by the Freedom From Religion Foundation was read by Annie Laurie Gaylor, editor of Freethought Today, at a news conference called by Scouting for All on May 19, 2004. The conference was held in front of the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, site of the national council conference of Boy Scouts of America.
Other speakers included Scott Cozza, president of Scouting for All, representatives of feminist, humanist and gay rights groups, and scouts and their parents.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, an association of atheists and agnostics, has been protesting the discriminatory policies of Boy Scouts of America since the late 1970s.
In the past ten years, BSA has become increasingly rigid, right-wing and doctrinaire--even taking its campaign to...
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