Boy Scouts of America may file for bankruptcy Is anyone surprised? I'm certainly not. Institutions built on traditions of character and morality fail pretty quickly when they abandon century old traditions of character and morality. 2013: The Boy Scouts become The Gay Scouts. I return my Eagle medal and end any funding. 2015 The Scout Leadership goes gay. Good luck with that. 2018 The 'Boy' Scouts end as they admit girls. The left wins another round as a previously solid mostly Christian morality based institution is destroyed by PC poison. Keep your kids away from this abomination. https://www.deseretnews.com/article...-bsa-bankrupt-wall-street-journal-report.html
Eagle Scout here. Proud BSA is actually aligning to its principles by being helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, and cheerful in an increasingly more consistent way. I'll send my donation today. Anyone who feels personally threatened or slighted by gay scouts being allowed didn't retain much of the better life lessons that Scouting has to teach.
They may not be around to donate to for long. And all of those boys will be deprived of beneficial experience.
I don't think you realize how much this society has changed. They truly shot themselves in the foot when they took on gay scoutmasters and girls. All to appease the gods of PC.
They are losing membership for many reasons, not just gay leadership. Leftist indoctrination (GSA is 10x worse) is available everywhere. NOTHING makes scouting any different anymore.
Yippee. That sounds really keen. Could you upload a picture of your Merit Badges? Sad to hear about the Bankruptcy.
I doubt that. The core is still there. But the real main issue seems to be inappropriate conduct by employees of BSA, including sex abuse. Yet you apparently thought that things like gay scouts were a more serious concern as you ignored the actually cause in your OP and focused on that instead. I can't imagine what sort of moral system is more outraged by a gay child than by sexual assault, but those certainly weren't priorities I learned in Scouting.
Which of the 12 scout laws say gays are not allowed in this organization? I'm guessing you are for discrimination?
It was the right move and I'm glad they went with it. They weren't being true to their values. The same people complaining about so-called political correctness here would characterize everything about the Scouts as PC. A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, brave, clean, and reverent?!?!?! *Begins foaming at the mouth* what kind of SJW virtue signaling is this?
Scouting in loads of other countries have accepted homosexuals and girls, in many cases for much longer than in the US and they're not struggling like this. Maybe the cause of the BSA's problems aren't what you're presuming them to be?
I'm for freedom of association. So are the roughly 2 million boys that have bailed on BSA since their membership peak.
Like I mentioned in another post, leftist indoctrination is available (unavoidable?) almost everywhere. When the BSA peddles the same garbage, they will alienate many. It's rarely the boys that instigate membership, it's the parents. And when BSA loses Utah/LDS it'll be dead.
There are many reasons for the declining number. BSA is a non-profit organization as such they have to comply with federal laws regarding discrimination. By the way, the BSA have girls among their ranks for years and the new girls will have their own troops.
Leave it to you to not read your own damn article: "We care deeply about all victims of child sex abuse and we are steadfast in our belief that one incident of child abuse is one too many. We sincerely apologize to anyone who was harmed during their time in our programs," he continued. The problem is that they have been suffering from lawsuits based on sexual harassments among their rank. You were never a scout I take it. Righties are gonna righty. `
Wish I could post a list of all the job offers I have received over the last 2 decades with that achievement. You'd be surprised how often what I learned in scouting translates into useful data and abilities daily.
Next thing will be transgender scouts. Thats gonna be even more popular. The purpose of this PC crowd was to erode an American institution and they succeeded. They are doing it to sports now.
Since you are disparaging them now and ashame, perhaps you should no longer use that title to your advantage.
I was in a non LDS troop. Tiger to Eagle. Now there are splinter groups that seek to remain true to what BSA was.