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: 0020: Boy Scouts Lift Ban on Gay Scouts But Not Gay Leaders
: andkonMay 23, 2013, 08:27:47 PM
: Re: 0020: Boy Scouts Lift Ban on Gay Scouts But Not Gay Leaders
: JimFJune 07, 2013, 12:04:14 PM
There's an amateur Web author named James Savik who wrote a hair-raising (but never finished) autobiographical story entitled "Broken" ( http://www.awesomedude.com/jamessavik/Broken/index.htm ) describing his experience in the Boy Scouts in the deep South in the 80s.
In Chapter 4, he describes his patrol getting lost during a map exercise:
"It started getting dark a little after five. The kids started getting nervous. It was obvious that we were lost but I tried to put the best face on it. We stopped for a little rest and took stock of our situation. . .
We stopped again and I had to admit that I had no idea where we were. We stuck to the plan but were tired, muddy and cut up by thorns. I could tell that Nick was shot. Scotty looked a little worried but Brian was a trooper. He took it in stride.
It was slow going. I had to take Nick piggyback. He was exhausted. By 8:00, we had found the road that we were looking for. We were back in our camp by nine.
Everybody was relieved when we came in. They had been looking for us. It wasn't hard to figure out what was wrong when we compared our map to the others. The distances and bearings on waypoints 6, 7 and 9 were transposed. OOPS. No wonder we got turned around.
I'd almost forgotten Nick was on my back. He was sound asleep and latched on like a tick. Totally exhausted by our misadventure, the four of us went to our tent and crashed. No radio. No fart jokes. I didn't even try to disengage Nick's death grip. I lay down on my stomach with Nick still latched on to my back and was dead to the world.
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The next morning an angry Mr. Rainer [the Scoutmaster] awakened us. I figured he was pissed about us getting lost.
Nick was still attached so I gently got out of his grasp. Mr. Rainer told me to get outside now.
With an angry look on his face he growled, “What do you think you're doing with Turner?”
I calmly explained, “Last night when we got lost, Nick gave out and I had to carry him. When we got back, he was sound asleep and latched on. We were all exhausted and went to sleep where we fell.”
He looked at me suspiciously then he looked at Scotty and Nick who were emerging from the tent. He grabbed me by the hair and pulled me out of earshot from the others, “I don't like that shit. I don't like it worth a damn. I'm going to be watching you. If I see anything like that again, you are out of here. Do you understand?”
I wasn't sure exactly what he was pissed about so I nervously gave a generic apology. I figured that he was pissed that I had blown the orientation course and didn't know why. “I'm sorry sir. It won't happen again.”
He growled, “You just make sure it doesn't or there will be hell to pay.” He turned abruptly and stormed off.
I had never seen him act that way.
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After the confusing ass chewing from Rainer, I was shaken up. I made sure that everything that I did or Scotty, Nick or Brian did until we got home was high and tight.
I talked to Doug about it later that day. He told me not to sweat it. He would talk to Rainer and cool things off with the old man. . . ======
And it (the situation described, not the story) goes downhill from there. (Spoiler: the Scoutmaster takes it upon himself to get the **police** involved.)
: Re: 0020: Boy Scouts Lift Ban on Gay Scouts But Not Gay Leaders
: andkonJune 12, 2013, 03:56:10 PM
Good find. Exclusive heterosexuality is so natural people have to be punished in order to comply.