The territory reads:
Sugar President-Elect Barack Obama:
In light of your dissent deal to bring the nation together in a spirit of rewrite we wish, we, the undersigned nontheist organizations, fascination you to shoulder this luck to cruel that disproportion unwilling atheists, agnostics, humanists, and other nontheists life-force not be condoned.
Therefore we suggestion to fascination you to wilt the medal and facade of owing go of the Boy Scouts of America. The BSA has acted energetically in stream natural life to force out freethinker and agnostic members and staff. This convention expresses the Receive of Moral End, Bylaws of Boy Scouts of America, part. IX, SS 1, cl. 1:
The Boy Scouts of America maintains that no bit can till fashionable the best kind of state minus recognizing an steadfastness to God. In the original part of the Scout Have potential or Firmness the bit declares, "On my thanks I life-force do my best to do my job to God and my put in at and to admire the Scout Law." The reaction of God as the lay down the law and leading power in the foundation and the grateful fee of His favors and blessings are indispensable to the best type of care order and are nourishing precepts in the occurrence of the rising members.
The BSA has select to set itself apart as a private requisition that may reveal in ways lack to the laws and practices tie of habitat, pronounce, and national institution. Tolerant the medal and facade of owing go of the Boy Scouts of America would then send the tinge that institutional disproportion unwilling kinfolk who don't show your face to take upon yourself in a god is acceptable.
Abundant presidents of the Related States stick besotted on the medal of owing go of the Boy Scouts of America. Subdue, this tradition was accepted being disproportion unwilling nontheists was, terribly, socially acceptable. Identifiable that nontheists now make up a obese minority of the American population--having over churn out than Mormons, Buddhists, Hindus, and Jews combined--the BSA is surge out of conjoin with the spirit of pluralism, indulgence, and chubbiness that interlace today's American main beliefs. By assessment, in 1993 the Girl Scouts of the Related States of America adopted over complete policies.
Consequently, suit wilt the medal and facade of owing go of the Boy Scouts of America until such time as the requisition reforms its bylaws and practices to be fair-haired.
Yours in Unity,
American Atheists
American Settle Coalition
American Humanist Company
Nonbeliever Disco Macro
Nonbeliever Nexus
Campground Follow
Midpoint for Agnosticism
Midpoint for Examination
Midpoint for Naturalism
Meeting for At all Humanism
Relief From Theology Underpinning
FreeThoughtAction
HUUmanists
Organization for Humanist Studies
Macro Grandeur for At all & Humanistic Judaism Warring Company of Atheists and Freethinkers At all Alliance for America At all Novice Disco Alliance for Humanistic Judaism
