Posted by:
intellectualfeminist
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Date: January 25, 2011 12:58PM
Okay, here's the deal. My youngest son has a Blue & Gold dinner this Thurs. evening, and should be getting a couple of badges as well. I have a policy of not going inside LDS buildings anymore, but when it comes to special events in my children's lives, I make an exception because I go to support THEM.
Anyway.
My son started scouting in his dad's ward, but I eventually agreed to take him to scouting in our local ward. I just found out that since his ward records haven't been transferred to Mytown USA, son won't get his badges. I'm getting some paperwork sent to me that apparantly has to be filled out and shuffled around so that he can be worthy to......oops, I mean, so that he can actually participate and get his badge.
See, that's what I hate about BSA and the LDS church. I don't go to the ward here and I don't take my kids to church; their records have been with their dad's ward and there hasn't been an issue up to now. My question(s): is this LDS hoop-jumping absolutely necessary for my son to be able to get his badges? Does BSA step back on this one and allow an LDS troop sponsored by its local ward to handle procedure this way? Or is there any rule or regulation in BSA that supercedes the LDS model? I don't see the need to go through all that just so my son can get his freakin' badges and enjoy the evening with his peers. Are they (LDS Inc)really, legally able to insist on this records transfer business within their scouting troops? And if not, then could I inform them of that and have grounds to refuse?
I'm just SO DONE with Mormon hoop-jumping and paper pushing, and this to me seems just as bogus as the worthiness interview BS and all the empty busy-work and running on the hamster wheel in the cage. So. Any suggestions?