[jlgreco]

You have misunderstood, the ultimatum was from my parents. The troop was bigoted because the troop leaders openly hated atheists and gay people.

I wanted nothing to do with them but was emotionally/financially blackmailed into completing the program. In retrospect I had more capacity for independence than I gave myself credit for at the time, but it was a shitty thing for my parents to do (we have since come to terms about this though).

[nightpool]

Might want to clarify that in your post, I came to the same conclusion :)