Eagle

The day has finally arrived for me to be a Mom of a son working on his eagle project.  Luckily for me I've got a rockin next door neighbor with a son who is also working on his.  She went to a local elementary school and asked if they had any projects they needed done that our scouts could do.  Sweet!  She set up a meeting and our sons showed up in uniform and found out what projects needed to be done.   Jared went back later and took some pictures to go with his proposal.   He got his 2 signatures from the troop and he has an interview on Monday night with someone from the council.  Jared will be building 25 bookcases for the montessori area of the school.  The school has all the shelves so we just need to get them put together and in their places.  The scheduled date for this service project is May 4th.  We are in the home stretch.  It will be nice to have it done before all the BSA controversy hits the fan.  Who knows whats going to happen with all of that.  My 2 cents?  The whole thing is ridiculous.  It shouldn't even be up for discussion.  It can all be boiled down to 1 question.  Would you be saying the same thing in a coed situation?  Just because that's the gender they are attracted to doesn't mean they are going to act on it.  Really?  Would you still say that?  Would you send your little girl up with a male leader?  I'm so tired of common sense being chucked out the window under the guise of acceptance and love.  As far as the boys are concerned it shouldn't be a subject that is brought up.  If they are not going to openly tell everyone and act on it then all is well and you are welcome to camp with the gender you are attracted to.  Precautions should be put in place to keep everything group oriented and avoid alone one on one contact.   Leaders, no way!  Suddenly we want to wipe from our memory all the alter boy scandals and the coach scandals and put our children in a potentially dangerous environment to spare someone their feelings while touting the cry of sameness.  You are no longer the same by definition.  I asked Jared how he felt about it and he said "I think that would be pretty creepy if he was camping with me."  Is that hateful?  No, it's honest.  He would say the same thing about camping with a woman.... or perhaps when he gets a bit more testosterone in his veins he will say something like. is she hot?  Again, not good.  Well, that got way off topic, but that is what is going on right now while we move forward with an amazing program that has been helping boys become responsible, respectful citizens for a very long time and I hope it stays that way.