On Thursday of this week, a year after our conversation, the Boy Scouts voted to allow gay youth to participate in Scouting—but not gay adults. My son says that’s not good enough. He will miss out on the camping trips, the friendships, the sense of achievement. But I don’t think he needs the Boy Scouts to teach him character.
Posted May 24, 2013 at 7:16pm
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Tourists atop the Chicago Tribune building look down on the Chicago River, the site of Old Fort Dearborn.
Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart, National Geographic
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It wasn’t so much that he didn’t see the messages from The Internet; it was that he didn’t know how to respond.
(Photo: Frederik Vercruysse; Dwell)
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People strolling through a park Finland during a wet May snowstorm, 1968.
Photograph by George F. Mobley, National Geographic
