conuly

You're right, tolerance does not equal acceptance, but tolerance DOES mean not purposely excluding them, especially in a group that is not expressly Judeo-Christian. As conuly pointed out in her response to you, the Boy Scouts have been billing themselves as "American" more than Christian. Unless you know the history of the Boy Scouts chances are you wouldn't think of them as exclusively Christian because that's definitely NOT how they present themselves. If they ARE, in fact, an exclusively Christian organization, they should be up front about it and promote themselves that way. Claiming that the pre-requisite for joining is a belief in "a god" when the actual pre-requisite is "my god" is fraud by any other name. They are either misrepresenting themselves to the public or this group has broken the rules.

And I'm sorry, but it's not the parents' fault that the Boy Scouts aren't living up to their own philosophy either.