Scouting

As a boy, Scouting helped me 

to live in a diverse world.  

Scouting taught me to respect 

others in their difference.  

This served well the Golden Rule 

I was learning in my church:

Treat others as you want to be treated. 

Today I find the teaching

within all the religions.

’Tis a pity, their faithful

too often fail to follow.

More’s the pity, today’s Scouts 

learn the rule their leaders rout.

Value-based, they say.  If so,

I guess their values I doubt.

Boy Scouts of America

discriminates against gays

and it also practices 

faithism . . . faith-based bias.

Just like my church, United Methodist.