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A Cub Scout Badge for Video Games?!

A Cub Scout badge for video games? What next? Troop hikes to GameStop? Wienie roasts on the Wii? "On my honor I will try ... to blow away more virtual grunts"? "We are not encouraging them to go out and buy Halo," says Renee Fairrer, ...

British scouts to get condoms

The British version of the Boy Scouts has issued new guidelines which instruct troop leaders to hand out condoms "if they believe [a scout] is very likely to begin or continue having intercourse with or without contraception." In addition, they are ...

Winning the pinewood derby

One of the aspects of scouting that I'd heard about and would have really liked to have tried was the pinewood derby, a race using home-built, miniature, wooden racecars. I always thought it would be cool to carve a car and add wheels, basically ...

Another girl scout gets robbed of cookie money

So we've all learned that we don't go around the neighborhood selling cookies without an adult, right girls? In fact, let's all just set up a table outside the local grocery store and sell cookies with mom right there. That'll be perfectly safe, ...

Girl Scout robbed of cookie money

Would you let your ten-year-old daughter go out alone to sell Girl Scout cookies? Neither would Chris Grant, but his daughter did it anyway. Nicole Grant went out with a friend to sell cookies and was stopped by a twelve-year-old girl. The other girl ...

Sea Scout leader molested boys

Remember the Sea Scouts who were told they were no longer be eligible for free use of the Berkeley, California marina to berth their boats due to their discriminatory policy towards gays? Eugene Evans, the Scouts' leader, gained a modicum of fame for ...

Boy scouts get the bill for discrimination

Remember the Cradle of Liberty Council of Boy Scouts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania? The third largest group of scouts in the country, they have enjoyed the use of city-owned property as their headquarters for nearly 80 years. That, however, was ...

Girl Scouts reinvent themselves

Contrary to popular opinion, the Girl Scouts are not just about enslaving young girls for the purpose of selling cookies without paying the overhead of a retail site. It's also about embroidery and cooking. At least, that's what most people -- and ...

Girl Scout met by gun toting granny

An 8-year-old Girl Scout who was selling cookies got quite the surprise when selling cookies. The person whose door she knocked on met her with a shotgun. The girl and her father, who is a firefighter, ran to their house and called the police. The ...

Scouts can't have their cake and eat it too

Six years ago, the Boy Scouts of America convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that they, as a private organization, have the right to discriminate against gays and athiests. They are, after all, organized around religious principles and certainly no one ...

No free parking for discriminating sailors

It seems the Boy Scouts are feeling the heat for their discriminatory ways all over. Remember the story about the Philadelphia council who faced losing the free use of their city-owned headquarters building for discriminating against homosexuals? ...

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