LGBTQ+ Rights and Religion

Why not allow girls into the boy scouts? Why not just combine the two? Those were honest questions.

Or allow gay boys to join the girl scouts and gay girls to join the boy scouts.

They'd need a name change though.

edited 7th Jun '13 1:04:00 PM by Elfive

(thinking) I....dunno....

See if everyone would just be straight, we wouldn't have these problems.

edited 7th Jun '13 1:04:04 PM by TheStarshipMaxima

Well when I was younger we had cross-activities with girl-scouts, and there wasn't an orgy-fest. I don't see what the problem is, just mix the two all up.

What age are the concerned scouts anyway?

edited 7th Jun '13 1:04:49 PM by QuestionMarc

Unless you can promise that nobody will fuck each other, I think most parents will say "no deal".

This isn't during activities. This is, say, on camping trips, at night, when everyone's sleeping.

edited 7th Jun '13 1:06:41 PM by Robotnik

No idea. There are coed-scout organisations in europe.

... Our dorms were right beside each other. I meant activities as in, going on a camping trip for a long weekend.

edited 7th Jun '13 1:08:00 PM by QuestionMarc

I doubt at age 10, that's much of an issue. And, if you can manage not to have an orgy at school during school hours in coed schools, I don't see why supervised after-school activity is such a big deal when it comes to segregation.

edited 7th Jun '13 1:08:45 PM by Euodiachloris

But you weren't in the same room, were you?

At 10, sure. But at 12? 13? 14?

edited 7th Jun '13 1:09:17 PM by Robotnik

And, two large tents on school trips never happened to me when camping in the bush: boys and girls.

Two unlocked doors and three steps isn't exactly what I'd call a big obstacle to debauchery.

Hey, what's the deal with public school? You've got hormonal teenage boys and girls sitting in the same room for hours at a time. Something's bound to happen eventually. I know we had our share of orgies back in high school.

I'm not so sure about that. It may not be an entirely rational hang-up, but it's pretty disingenuous to act if there's nothing whatsoever behind the concern.

edited 7th Jun '13 1:14:10 PM by Robotnik

Yeah, right... I forgot... everybody between the ages of 13-18 is automatically going to have sex with any random individual of the opposite sex they encounter. My bad.

edited 7th Jun '13 1:14:46 PM by Euodiachloris

I went to the wrong high school clearly.

edited 7th Jun '13 1:18:03 PM by TheStarshipMaxima

Not orgies. But a good deal of people made out with each other in the halls at my school. That's hardly anything terrible, but you can't deny there's sexual tension in that sort of environment.

You're pretty much bent on acting as if there's no reason at all behind the guy's argument. I don't agree with his position, but I can see where he's coming from, and if you were a parent, I think you would too.

edited 7th Jun '13 1:20:20 PM by Robotnik

And remember: Gay guys are much more promiscous.

edited 7th Jun '13 1:19:04 PM by blauregen

I didn't say that, nor did I imply it.

True, true. Both things are true, aren't they? You can't trust girls and boys in the same room... and you can't trust homosexual girls and boys. After all, if you're homosexual, you're probably a degenerate, sex-mad bisexual with the self-control of a kitten faced with catnip or a fluffy toy. Yeah.

edited 7th Jun '13 1:22:44 PM by Euodiachloris

Nah, it really is a common stereotype. It doesn't need extra mentioning. Not your fault.

edited 7th Jun '13 1:21:48 PM by blauregen

Well, sure, there's always the chance that something will happen, but separating everyone based on the off chance that it does happen isn't really the solution.

But the way the Reverend said it sounded like a homosexuality outbreak was about to happen.

That's small game, we have regular metro orgies all the time around here.

It's not really an off-chance. I think it's fair to say that it will happen at some point or another. Not to any horrible extent, and probably not at all frequently, but it'll happen. Whether it's a bad thing or not isn't my concern.

The guy's exaggerating, and as I said, I don't even agree with his conclusion, but there's a grain of truth in there somewhere and I think it needs to be acknowledged.

edited 7th Jun '13 1:28:36 PM by Robotnik

On the plus-side. If something happens, the risk of unwanted pregnancy is exceedingly low.

Why does it need to be acknowledged?

Wouldn't this be happening anyway? Are people really saying that if two guys are so hormonal that they just have to get it on there and then, they'd have been deterred by the fact that they would be kicked out if caught? As for why not mixing the boys and girls scouts, I think we actually started to do that in the UK.