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Posted: Sun 10:33, 01 Sep 2013 Post subject: a wonderful book |
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-- or the lawsuits. But the Boy Scouts stuck to their position for decades,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], asserting just last summer that the ban on homosexuality was "absolutely the best policy for the Boy Scouts." That's why this week's news came as such a surprise: The organization is now poised to adopt a new policy that will let each chapter decide whether or not to accept gay members. Baden-Powell called Mein Kampf "a wonderful book, with good ideas on education,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], health,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], propaganda,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], organisation."For many current and former scouts, this about-face raises questions about the very character of the Boy Scouts of America, an organization inspired by a British military officer named Robert Baden-Powell. In the June 2004 Atlantic, Christopher Hitchens looked back at Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys, the 1908 manual that gave rise to an entire culture of "young men in shorts." As Hitchens writes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Baden-Powell was a peculiar character: "He was a racist and an imperialist and a monarchist, all right, but most
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