[brianmwaters_hn]

> The Scouts are a great organization on a local level... > However, the BSA at a national level is a pretty awful organization.

Thank you for pointing this out. I've been trying to explain this to people for years. When I was a kid in the Scouts, we lost a grant for a brand new gear trailer (that we badly needed) because of the bigoted stance that National had just taken on homosexuality. As a troop, we tried to explain this dichotomy to our would-be funders, and even went so far as to openly refuse to enforce National's policy. We lost our trailer anyway, and National continues to reduce the credibility and relevance of the BSA in the eyes of less conservative Americans to this day. And it's a damn shame, because it's really a great organization.