Boy scouts teaching kids intolerance

Living in a small LDS community and not being Mormon has many side effects. But when it starts to affect the children, there is a problem. I was raised to believe that I should be able to make my own decisions about what religious preference I would acquire when I became old enough to KNOW what religion was. Not following blindly what older, "wiser" people told me I should believe. Instead, to make up my OWN mind. Now... My 8 year old son wants to join the Boy Scouts. His father and step-father both were members and received their eagle scout badges. Naturally, he wants to join the scouts to do all of the fun things that he sees all of his friends doing. Three years in a row we have put our name on the list and NOT ONCE have we been contacted about joining. I decided to look into this further and found out that my son is being put aside because of the fact that we want him to grow up to make his own decisions. We do talk to him about religion, he has grown up in a religious community with many LDS family members who have tried to convince him that he should be baptized, against our will. The Boy Scouts of America claim that they are open to all boys. BULL SHIT. I feel that my husband and myself have become respectable adults. Neither of us have been in jail. My husband has an engineering degree in computer science and is president of a successful software company. I just opened my own cafe and am pursuing a degree in geology. My children have a good home and have never gone hungry. So why should an innocent 8 year old child be excluded from an activity because he is not religious? Am I teaching my son not to be open minded to ALL aspects of life? NO. Am I teaching my son to be intolerant of people different than us? NO. But this seems to be the message that the largest organization for boys is doing. They are hiding behind their "private organization" excuse. The ONLY pack in this area is run by the LDS church so even if we were religious he would still be excluded if we were something other than Mormon. Am I pissed? YES. When he is old enough to realize why he was not allowed to join the Boy Scouts he will see what is means to be a hypocrite. To teach tolerance and understanding "if you fit in" is a sad thing.