RSSBoy Scouts Award Merit Badge For Killing
Carl Andrews | February 27, 2010
According to the folks at PETA, “Promoting fishing teaches young people that hooking, maiming, suffocating, and killing is acceptable.”
They are calling on the Boy Scouts of America to retire it’s “Fishing” and “Fish and Wildlife Management” merit badges.
I’m starting to think that the folks at PETA are smoking something, and it ain’t fish.
My son became a Cub Scout as soon as he was old enough, and ended up become an Eagle Scout.
Throughout the years, his troop went on dozens of fishing trips, even going deep-sea fishing a few times, and instead of growing up to become a violent person, he became an EMT.
When I was younger, I spent my summers going fishing on an almost daily basis.
Did I grow up to believe that cruelty to animals was acceptable?
Quite the contrary, one of my fondest dreams is to someday be able to move off of the busy street I live on so that I can get a dog and not have to worry about it getting hit by a car.
I think that this group needs to change their name form People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to Pinheads Exploiting the Truly Asinine.
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I was a Boy Scout as was my son, father, and grand father. Although I dropped out to pursue other interests (girls mostly) in high school I have always felt the BSA has provided me with a foundation for life that all young men should learn. Nothing makes a person stronger and more independent than the confidence that comes with knowing you can handle many situations and have developed many useful skills. I hope every parent can be wise enough to ignore the politics and put their young boys in cub scouts and girls in girl scouts. It will benefit them all thier lives.