[Sans-Culotte]

No, Scouting should not be for "anyone". Scouting should only be for those who can honestly take an oath to do their "duty to God" and to be "morally straight".

It is sad, but I have to laugh when I see an organization inflict such a fatal head wound on itself. The term "boy scout" is often used to describe someone who is above the temptations and moral equivocations that plague most people, e.g. "you're such a 'boy scout'" Now the term 'boy scout' means.....nothing.

[Pollster1]

Probably the most common criticism I received in business was that I was too much of a Boy Scout. I always took that as a compliment - and permanently refused to do business with anyone who considered that a flaw.

[ArrogantBustard]

A "boy scout" (in that metaphorical sense) is someone with a clear, identifiable, comprehensible, "moral" Code of Morals that serves as first principles to guide his actions.

It should be considered a compliment.

The Boy Scouts of America organization has thrown that away.