Scouts Insist Cubs Are Windsor’s “Subjects”

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The Scout Association has threatened to deny full membership of its Cubs to eight-year-old Matthew McVeigh because he refuses to promise allegiance to Britain’s feudal head of state, Elizabeth Windsor.
Matthew’s family is Catholic and Britain’s constitution bars Catholics from the nation’s chief public office. His mother Tracy McVeigh told the Daily Record newspaper “The 1701 Act of Settlement specifically discriminates against Catholic people and only allows for Protestants to take the throne – so why should we make an oath to the monarchy? Matthew said “It’s not fair. I don’t want to say a promise that I don’t believe in.
The Scots Association wanted Matthew to say “I promise that I will do my best, to do my duty to God and the Queen, to help other people and to keep the Cub Scout Law”. He offered to promise to do his duty to his country instead of Windsor. The Scouts Association refused to allow this. It does allow Cubs to substitute a deity other than “God”.
Using a demeaning alternative to the word “citizen”, Scout Association spokesperson Chris Foster told The Record that “British subjects must promise to do their duty to the Queen. It is simply UK Scout Association policy that all British subjects must promise that.”
Republicans are subject to systematic discrimination in Britain. They are barred from the legislature and from judicial and military positions.


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