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Secular Group Urges Obama to Demand Boy Scouts End Atheist Ban

A nationwide secularist organization has sent President Barack Obama a letter asking for him to use his position as "honorary president" of the Boy Scouts of America to change their policy on atheists.

Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker, co-presidents of the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, sent President Obama the letter on Monday urging him "to lead the way toward an America 'with liberty and justice for all.'"

"As we applaud the willingness of the national board of Boy Scouts of America to reconsider its hurtful blanket exclusion of gays from membership, we must not forget that BSA has embraced exclusion of two minorities in our nation: gays and nonbelievers," wrote Gaylor and Barker. ...

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Homosexuality q.v.,
God's View of Homosexuality and atheism linked? What a surprise! :-7

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