Flag Ceremony at a Business

[Tampa Turtle]

This what we do. I am a card carrying Liberal and if my boys wanted to do it I would have said Hell Yea without bothering to ask permission. I'd probably OK almost any business unless it was a strip club, bar, or neo-nazi church (yea we had one of those). Obviously if we were being used for political purposes I'd bow out. 

[Stosh]

Our American Legion has a bar.... is that a problem or do the boys need to go outside and across the street to do their flag ceremonies?

[krypton_son]

Our American Legion has a bar.... is that a problem or do the boys need to go outside and across the street to do their flag ceremonies?

 

I wouldn't see why there would be an issue with it.  It's not like the kids would be drinking.

[Stosh]

Hooters is a restaurant with a bar in the same "category" of business as our American Legion.... 

 

How's nudity in theaters today any better/worse than a strip club?

 

Neo-nazi church or Wicca gathering vs. Christian service?  Any differences there?

 

The point being, to be making sweeping generalizations to prove a point is rather,.... well should we say,  "pointless?"

 

My point is that as soon as someone starts distinguishing who gets a flag ceremony and who doesn't, one is deep into politics.

[Eagledad]

Hooters is a restaurant with a bar in the same "category" of business as our American Legion.... 

 

How's nudity in theaters today any better/worse than a strip club?

 

Neo-nazi church or Wicca gathering vs. Christian service?  Any differences there?

 

The point being, to be making sweeping generalizations to prove a point is rather,.... well should we say,  "pointless?"

 

My point is that as soon as someone starts distinguishing who gets a flag ceremony and who doesn't, one is deep into politics.

Scouting must be local because a lot of lines were crossed in that list around here.

 

Barry

[NJCubScouter]

Our American Legion has a bar.... is that a problem or do the boys need to go outside and across the street to do their flag ceremonies?

 

That is up to your troop to decide, either way.  That has been my whole point in this thread.

 

Aside from troop meetings/COH's/camping trips, our troop does two flag ceremonies a year, one is an elaborate Flag Day ceremony involving all of the historical flags of the U.S., at a fraternal/charitable lodge-type organization (and there is a bar-room in the basement, and afterwards the kids are treated to pizza and soda in the bar-room), and the other is a flag retirement ceremony in which the American Legion also participates, in a public park.  There is also a historical society that does a July 4 event and rotates invitations around to the various troops in the county (BSA and GSUSA) to participate, and our troop has done that a couple of times.   I don't know of any other flag-type ceremonies that our troop has been invited to participate in.  I don't think there has ever been an invitation to do one at a business.  I don't know what our reaction would be to more flag ceremonies, or to do one at a business, either in general or specifically, since these subjects have never come up.  I do think our troop has the right to decide whether it wishes to do more of this sort of thing, and if so, how much more, and where.  Between what we do at meetings etc. and the events I mentioned above, I don't think anyone could say that we do not give sufficient honor to the flag.  How much more should be done and where, if the subject ever comes up, is, in my opinion, our business.