Felker said.

Tessier said that his parents and troop have always accepted him and that he has only seen the support swell since speaking publicly on the issue.

Among the letters Tessier received were two from Eagle Scouts offering up their badges to him.

“It’s interesting to see how ready the world was for change,” he said.

Aaron Chusid, a spokesman for the Boy Scouts’ National Capital Area Council, which oversees troops from Frederick and Fredericksburg, said the area has not seen much change in enrollment or funding since the policy changed. At 77 percent, the retention rate remains one the highest in the nation, he said.

Chusid has not met Tessier, who, along with his parents and classmates, held a demonstration a mile and a half from the NCAC’s headquarters in April,be suggested that pride preceded that, because for them to defy God's command they had to exalt themselves as the authority over their own lives.  Pride would have been a sin of the heart whereas eating of the fruit was a sin of deed.

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Most traditions agree that the original sin was disobedience to God.  God specifically told them not to eat of the tree in the middle of the garden, and they did it anyway.  
Sin is described in the Bible as transgression of the law of God (1 John 3:4) and rebellion against God (Deuteronomy 9:7; Joshua 1:18).   
Eating of the fruit, in direct contradiction to what He told  them to do is the definition of rebellion. They chose to do