The Snarky Humanist

Xander was a boy scout for approximately 2 days before we found out how anti-gay and anti-atheist they are.  It was definitely a parenting fail on our part since we didn't do the research on this until after he joined, but at least our relationship with the Bigot Scouts was fleeting. It was big news recently that the BSA is considering allowing gay members.  Great!  Kind of!  Unfortunately, they will still not allow gay adults to be scout leaders, since of course all gay people are pedophiles.  It's clear that their attitude about homosexuality hasn't changed at all, and that this BIG STEP they're taking is an attempt to appease their critics.  So yeah, not impressed.  I do like that people are fighting back though, as evidenced in this (local, yay!) story: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/05/18/when-scouts-banned-his-mom-boy-left-too.html Even if they completely lifted their ban on gays, there would still be that pesky intoleranc...

So.  APPARENTLY, the Catlicks new pope is demonstrating a rarely seen tolerance towards non-Catholics.  And not just non-Catholics, but dirty evil atheists as well. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/pope-francis-good-atheists_n_3320757.html Pope Francis said in a recent homily: "The Lord created us in His image and likeness, and we are the image of the Lord, and He does good and all of us have this commandment at heart: do good and do not do evil. All of us. ‘But, Father, this is not Catholic! He cannot do good.’ Yes, he can... "The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‘Father, the atheists?’ Even the atheists. Everyone!".. We must meet one another doing good. ‘But I don’t believe, Father, I am an atheist!’ But do good: we will meet one another there.”  Also from the HuffPo article: Atheists should be seen as good people if they do good, Pope Francis said on Wednesday in his...