Several of the quotes from the letters that accompanied these return are pretty interesting:
I want you to think about the boys you are casting out of your organization, and I want you to wonder how many of them need support while their families, their schools, and their churches turn their backs on them. I want you to think about the pain you are causing, the depression you are enabling, and the suicides that you are contributing to.
While others spent their summers indoors playing video games and hardly leaving their neighborhoods, I was white water rafting, spelunking, hiking, laughing, and, most importantly, learning the values of friendship, dependability, and a respect for the diversity of people on whom I needed to rely to accomplish all of these activities.
How could this organization from which I have profited so much turn out to be the shining, happy face of bigotry?
Very well said, in all cases. I hope that THIS expression of opposition from those with the highest award given to youth will finally start to change the ossified minds that "lead" the BSA these days.
