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Sociology > Education |
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29 Apr 2004 09:22:51 AM |
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Re: VFW drops religious requirement |
Carol Lee Smith <human@csd.uwm.edu> wrote:
:|On 29 Apr 2004, Brian Westley wrote:
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:|> Carol Lee Smith <human@csd.uwm.edu> writes:
:|> >On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Callipygian Nullifidian wrote:
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:|> >> "Carol Lee Smith" <human@csd.uwm.edu> wrote in message
:|> >> news:Pine.OSF.3.96.1040428134005.30052a-100000@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu...
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:|> >> : From The American Humanist Association:
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:|> >> : Victory! VFW Drops Religious Requirement for Membership!
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:|> >> I still can't see any reason to join.
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:|> >Neither do I. But some folks would like to do so.
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:|> >Now there is no need to take a god-oath in order to be accepted.
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:|> >Not only that, but they support the BSA coming around to the same rational
:|> >position.
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:|> Carol, where did you see the VFW supporting this? I've
:|> only seen the VFW supporting the BSA's discriminatory rules.
:|
:|Sorry, I can't find where I read something about that. So until I do, I
:|will have to retract what I said since I can't verify it. My apologies.
Does this help?
From: "Carol Smith" <humanist@ameritech.net>
To: <jalison@cox.net>
Subject: VFW - did you see this?
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 22:51:55 -0500
Position Paper on the Veterans of Foreign Wars - 25 January 2004
The Veterans of Foreign Wars recently published a new, nonsectarian
membership application that included none of the religious requirements of
their previous application. We applaud this action and consider their
stated membership requirements to be comprehensive and fair: US
citizenship, an honorable discharge, and an overseas campaign medal (or 30
days' service in Korea). We encourage all veterans to join the VFW, both to
continue the long service of the VFW to soldiers and in recognition of the
VFW's newfound respect for nonreligious soldiers.
We consider it the responsibility of the membership to generate new,
progressive change in the policies of the VFW. We encourage the VFW to
continue to represent all soldiers by avoiding religious issues and
focusing on military policies. We encourage the VFW to publicly recognize
their new membership policy by official resolution. The VFW should rescind
it's support of the current Pledge, a document that creates religious
division in America, and lobby the supreme court for the original Pledge,
the true statement of patriotism in America. We encourage the VFW to work
with the Boy Scouts of America to adopt a similar, nonsectarian membership
application that does not discriminate against nonreligious young men.
Members should encourage the VFW to represent their nonreligious as well as
religious membership by rescinding or changing sectarian policies.
Visit the Veterans of Foreign Wars website at http://www.vfw.org
.
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