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J. Hugh Sullivan  
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 More options Mar 21 2007, 10:47 am
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From: Ea...@roadrunner.com (J. Hugh Sullivan)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:47:18 GMT
Local: Wed, Mar 21 2007 10:47 am
Subject: Re: UK Chief Scout Peter Duncan on BBC radio
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:49:58 -0000, Brian Westley <west...@visi.com>
wrote:

>BBC radio programme "You and Yours" including an interview
>with UK scouting Chief scout Peter Duncan from March 13, 2007:

>http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/ram/2007_11_tue.ram

>segments with him are from
> 0:52 -  5:20
>29:26 - 52:00

>Starting at 46:16

>  [reading email from Hazel Fuller]
>    Belief in a god of some kind is an absolute requirement,
>    isn't it, for membership of the scouting movement?  As
>    an atheist and Humanist, I hope I have a morality that
>    doesn't rely on a belief in a mystical and unprovable
>    being, but my children, were they still young enough to
>    join, would be barred from the excellent things that
>    scouting promotes.  I don't believe that religion
>    should have a place in the scouting movement; just as
>    I affirm and accord, so should a non-believer be able
>    to affirm to moral values as a scout.

She has every right to believe that. What's the beef?

Hugh


 
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