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Gavin Slay, 17, who will be a senior this fall at Hewitt-Trussville High School, is an Eagle Scout in Troop 915, based in Trussville. He has been scouting since the first grade. He supports yesterday's decision. "For me, scouting is about openness and inclusiveness," he said. "Part of the scout law is about being courteous, kind, cheerful. We're encouraged to include everyone. I think this decision is an extension of that."

This is exactly what we are up against! This scout is so stupid he doesn't even know the Scout motto about MORALITY! He drank the LGBT Fool-Aid! The Scouts are not encouraged to include "EVERYONE!" They are only encouraged to join ranks with those who can recite the Scout OATH with truthfulness and honor!

6 ... This is exactly what we are up against! This scout is so stupid he doesn't even know the Scout motto about MORALITY! He drank the LGBT Fool-Aid! ...

Instead of blaming this 17 year-old scout, I place the blame on the public education system. Even here in AL, which was rated just below OK in terms of being the most politically conservative state in the union, we have to contend with diversity/political correctness. The public schools are poisoned to the gills by these teachers.

Ten years ago I was a member of an Episcopal Church in the Birmingham suburbs and active in Scouting (I left ECUSA a short while later). We had a young scout in our congregation who was a delight to know. He got his Eagle and was recognized with the Vigil Honor. He went on to graduate from Furman University and went through the ROTC program there. He went into the Army upon graduation and pulled a 6-month tour in Afghanistan as an LT with the MPs. He was wounded and decorated with the Purple Heart. After many years we crossed paths when he was 27. He told me he was giving serious consideration to going to an Episcopal seminary to become a minister. I prepared a long white paper for him in an attempt to disuade him. Don't know if he read it. I saw him a few months ago and he has taken a position with the U.S. Marshall Service. So, maybe something I wrote gave him second thoughts. The point of this lengthy story is that this young man was a great kid, but he was filled with political correctness in public school.

Our local newspaper, The Birmingham News, is an absolute sewer of diversity propaganda. It truly has become a "5th column." I weep for my nation when I read the ignorance splattered on the editorial page and letters to the editor.

This is exactly what we are up against! This scout is so stupid he doesn't even know the Scout motto about MORALITY!

The problem is everyone is making up their own morality. I'm sure if you asked this guy if it's OK to let a compulsive liar or stealer into the group, he'd be against that. But why? "Inclusiveness" is just a sham.

Without the bible, or at least some authoritative standard, there is no basis for morality of any kind. Everyone does what is right in their own eyes.