No organization is safe from bad people or a degraded culture. However, Trail Life USA has the benefit of learning from the experiences of older organizations. I wish them the best.
The Boy Scouts set themselves up for a fall when they started taking corporate money, which apparently supported very nice salaries for corporate officers, plushy HQ, and special projects.
Once you are financially tied to corporate America or government, the leftists will have you by the short and curlies.
Leftists and statists need centralization for control. They can’t conduct their social-engineering schemes in anything without it. Its why they always insist on more state power.
Keep the organization lean and de-centralized, and Trail Life will do very well.
It all depends on who is allowed to infiltrate the organization. No one is immune without some inoculation which is repeated frequently.
The problem I have with Trail Life is that they dance around the homosexual issue, seeming to be willing to accept “gay” scouts as long as they don’t make an issue of it. That’s a recipe for disaster.
Evil targets good. The enemies of God, of freedom, and of the United States targeted the Boy Scouts of America because we were everything they wanted obliterated and still want to destroy. Trail Life is no more or less vulnerable. It’s a question of constant vigilance.
It’s no different from the antisemitism of the 1930s and 1940s, for which the vows of “never again” were so convincing . . . right up until antisemitism became cool again in Europe and in the United States. Those who target BSA and Jews today are even the same enemy as our parents/grandparents faced 80 years ago. They will come after Trail Life too the moment that their organization drops its guard.
We can HOPE that Trail Life is immune from the societal moral rot.........................
but there’s no guarantee....morally depraved people can ‘infiltrate’ and take over almost any organization or association in today’s America...
some other church-sponsored scouting organizations have apparently gone bad... bigtime....
this one is in a church which traditionally tended to be quite morally strict (please! let’s please leave aside all the criticisms of doctrinal distinctives today, please, that’s NOT the point right now, thanks thanks)..
this is from the 7th Day Adventist “Pathfinders” scouting website....
“Resources:
RESOURCES:
1. Pathfinder Handbook – BPSA-developed handbook for the Pathfinder section. Click here to order a coil-bound version.
2. Scouting for Boys – The definitive manual for scouts. This is the book that started scouting, complete with illustrations by B-P. Originally published in installments every other Wednesday from January 15, 1908. The book consists of introductions for Scouters, 28 “Campfire Yarns” for Scouts, and a summary. Also available in paperback. It should be noted that this text was written in 1908 and is in every way a reflection of the time. BPSA-US aims to move beyond the vestiges of colonialism, racism, sexism, homophobia, et al contained within this text and we are working every day to build a program that embodies 21st Century inclusivity. We look to the history as a framework for our educational method and theory, but we denounce the bigotry and discrimination presented in these texts. “
Another traditionally moral church (leaving aside their historical plural marriage doctrine)... has checked their kids OUT of BSA....... and is trying to set up a good, morally-righteous church-sponsored scouting group for their kids....we will see how well they can achieve this noble aim......
When they grow large enough to be a target, they’ll be a target. Right now, they do not have the membership or bank account to be worth destroying.
The enemy of “good” is “Better”. The more they grow, the more of an opportunity for social justice warriors and attorneys they’ll become.
Cub Scouts is got way too many womenInvolved