Posted on 08/01/2017 6:15:30 AM PDT by jmcenanly
"A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent."
12 Points of the Boy Scout Law
The head of the Boy Scouts of America publicly apologized Thursday for the "political rhetoric" in President Trump's keynote speech at the scouts' Jamboree, saying that "We sincerely regret that politics were inserted into the Scouting program" and affirming Scout values that include "fairness, courage, honor and respect for others."
The carefully worded statement suggests that the Scout leadership heard loud and clear the complaints from parents who were offended by a speech that sounded much like one of Trump's campaign rallies: slogans, promotion of a political agenda, cutting remarks about his opponents.
But as a senior child and adolescent psychiatrist and advocate for healthy youth development, I'm concerned that the leadership may still not get just how bad this speech was for the tens of thousands of Scouts who heard it, cheered it, chanted "We love Trump!" I feel a professional obligation to share my understanding of the risks this kind of "political rhetoric" poses for our children.
(Excerpt) Read more at wbur.org ...
Different audiences. Different purposes. Someone wrote a pretty good speech for the President. I wish he'd stuck to it.
I was pleased to see my grand son energized, connected, patriotic. Not sure where the flap is coming, but I think Trump is on track. The BSA needs to go back to the drawing board and find out what made them great.
not as toxic as being buggered by your gay scoutmaster. . . .
I was pleased to see my grand son energized, connected, patriotic. Not sure where the flap is coming, but I think Trump is on track. The BSA needs to go back to the drawing board and find out what made them great.
He’s in need of treatment he has no logic.
BSA has already ingested debilitating toxins. Its demise, if it happens will not be due to Trump injecting some temporary elixir of life.
A more accurate description for him would be “baby drugger”.
A Harvard Psychiatrist? Who the hell listens to THAT kind of worm of a human being?
bump
Haha. Too late! The boy scouts already heard it. They know whose side Trump is on. Win again.
Was it from parents or was it from the PR departments of large companies who donate money and those who decide where foundation money goes, and those who decide which heads of charitable organizations get face time on super-committees and umbrella committees of the charitable?
Looks like a perv to me...
I hear there’s a “dossier” out there that tells about how this guy rented some gay prostitutes to abuse the sleeping bag that the head Scoutmaster uses, and that Russia was behind it all...
Endless investigations! I want endless investigations! Call Congress! We’ll go until we prove something!
Idiot.
Harvard pseudo educated pinheads, bitching and blathering..
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