I think that BG may be the best place to get feedback on this.
Did you have to do a lot of religious stuff? Was it hard to find a secular group? If you have or if you end up having a boy would you want them to be in the boy scouts? Why or why not?
This is an issue that was brought up on the mommy boards that I never really thought about.
When I was in GS there was like, nothing religious about it. Yeah the pledge had "God" in it, but that was the extent of it. There were atheist kids in it, and it was no big deal.
I never really thought about how the BS was vastly different than the GS. I always figured that any girls I had would do GS and any boys I had would do BS. I thought it was important to do like group stuff in nature.
Now I am not so sure. It seems like the BS are still not all up n' up about gays in the group, and I guess are still severely religious? I don't know if that is sort of the "official" stance that most troops ignore or not.
Apparently most moms are open to their girls being in GS, but won't let their boys be in BS. So that is making me second guess myself. I had a great experience in GS, but for obvious reasons, know very little about how the BS differ. I would hate to let my daughter have the GS opportunity while denying my son a similar opportunity.
Considering BG is mostly atheists and guys, I figured I'd get better feedback here than there.
Side note: it may seem weird that I care about the religious part since I am religious, but idk too often religious activities can feed upon themselves negatively, and I'd rather keep the religious learning to places that are teaching the specifics of a religion ie. church, synagogue, world religion class, etc.