(May 23, 2013 at 8:44 pm)festive1 Wrote: It's still discriminatory against gay troop leaders and teachers (or whatever their term is for all the different guys who teach the various subjects they get badges for). They're only accepting of gay youth. Half victory at best.
One should lead to the other. I figure there's a bit of a bumpy road ahead, but overcoming discrimination is rarely, if ever, as simple and easy as it should be.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould