Scouting for All: Committed to Scouting, Open to Diversity. Working to end discrimination against gays, atheists, agnostics, other non-theists, and all other groups in the Boy Scouts of America.

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Activist Groups Urge Obama to Reject Boy Scout Honor

From Fox News:

Activist groups, including Scouting for All, urge President Obama not to accept the honorary Presidency of the Boy Scouts of America until they stop discriminating.

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John Selig

www.johnselig.com

John R. Selig is a gay parent who raised his 26-year-old son. He works in the advertising and marketing field and is a gay activist, free-lance writer and photographer living in Dallas, Texas. He was legally married to his partner in Toronto, Canada on April 17th by Canada's first openly gay justice.

Selig was a member of the StopDrLaura.com National Steering Committee and is currently engaged in the same-sex marriage battle through his involvement with dontamend.com.

Selig has been written about in the Dallas Voice, Texas Triangle, Long Islander, Dallas Morning News, Dallas Observer, New York Times, Newsday and U.S. News & World Report and appeared on the Donahue and Rolonda television shows and numerous radio shows around the country.

Selig has written and photographed feature articles for A&U magazine and has written Op-Ed Pieces for the Dallas Morning News, Arizona Republic and Mesa Tribune and articles for the Dallas Voice and Texas Triangle.

Selig contributed profiles and photographs and was a Consulting Editor to the award-winning book Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Lesbian and Gay Americans, and was a contributor to the book Telling Tales Out of School.

Currently Selig writes book reviews for ForeWord magazine and the Lambda Book Report.

"I support Scouting For All because youth are impressionable and the dangerous and hateful message sent by the Boy Scouts of America that it is okay to exclude gays and atheists will result in prejudice to those excluded. Groups that are ostracized can easily become targeted for emotional and physical abuse. My father and his parents fled Nazi Germany in 1935 when dad was ten because as Jews my family felt the sting of such pressure.

I have lived my life with the refrain "Never Again" as a motivator against such groups as the Boy Scouts of America that employ discrimination against others. I support Steven and Scott Cozza and the many others with Scouting For All in their efforts to reverse this absurd policy."

-- John R. Selig

Scouting For All is not an alternative scouting program.
We are an education and advocacy organization reaching out to gay and nontheist youth and adults in our effort to get the Boy Scouts of America to rescind its exlusionary policy.

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