It still frustrates me that the BSA still allows the "morally straight" clause to limit participation, as based on Chartering Organization restrictions, yet has never had a problem with obese adults. I am not knocking obese adults, as I am one who is wrestling with that problem, rather I am highlighting a hypocrisy that still exists, and is being promulgated by the tepid, watered down diversity merit badge. (OOPS, did I type that in my outside keyboard.)
The times they are a changing. Last Tuesday Phyllis Randolph Frye joined Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church’s Troop 511 (Houston, Texas) as an adult leader, and I as chartered organization representative presented her with Eagle Scout credentials in her proper name, as opposed to the original 1962 credentials. She is the first openly transgender judge in the United States and apparently in the world in the modern era. We presented her with a troop neckerchief, and I told her, “Welcome back!”
It still frustrates me that the BSA still allows the "morally straight" clause to limit participation, as based on Chartering Organization restrictions, yet has never had a problem with obese adults. I am not knocking obese adults, as I am one who is wrestling with that problem, rather I am highlighting a hypocrisy that still exists, and is being promulgated by the tepid, watered down diversity merit badge. (OOPS, did I type that in my outside keyboard.)
The times they are a changing. Last Tuesday Phyllis Randolph Frye joined Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church’s Troop 511 (Houston, Texas) as an adult leader, and I as chartered organization representative presented her with Eagle Scout credentials in her proper name, as opposed to the original 1962 credentials. She is the first openly transgender judge in the United States and apparently in the world in the modern era. We presented her with a troop neckerchief, and I told her, “Welcome back!”
Thank you for welcoming Phyllis back. She has been an inspiration to many of us in the trans/GNC community.