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Boy Scouts Membership Craters In Face Of ‘Woke’ Policy Changes
The Mix ^ | 7/7/2021 | Erin Perri

Posted on 07/07/2021 9:07:14 AM PDT by MJacks4

A Christian alternative to the Boy Scouts, Trail Life USA, is filling in the gap since membership in the Boy Scouts took a huge dive after moving to a more woke focus.

Boy Scouts of America lost two million members in the past eight years.

Trail Life USA started after the Boy Scouts decision to lift its ban on gay scout leaders. The Christian-based alternative group seeks to “guide generations of courageous young men to honor God, lead with integrity, serve others, and experience outdoor adventure.”

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To: DPMD

Scouting isn’t what it used to be.

Gray Ranks

“Gray Ranks” (Polish: Szare Szeregi) was a codename for the underground paramilitary Polish Scouting Association (Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego) during World War II.

The wartime organisation was created on 27 September 1939, actively resisted and fought German occupation in Warsaw until 18 January 1945, and contributed to the resistance operations of the Polish Underground State. Some of its members (Grupy Szturmowe – Assault Groups) were among the Home Army’s best-trained troops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Ranks


21 posted on 07/07/2021 9:54:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MJacks4

Hadn’t membership previously “cratered” in the face of sodomy?


22 posted on 07/07/2021 10:06:01 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: MJacks4

It is terrible that scouting committed suicide.


23 posted on 07/07/2021 10:18:26 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: DPMD
in the pledge, the phrase “mentally awake and morally straight” might be dumped over concern that it might offend some snowflakes.

It might as well be dumped, since it is a dead letter. It is ignored in practice, so continuing to mouth the words just sets an example of hypocrisy.

24 posted on 07/07/2021 10:25:27 AM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: MJacks4

Good. I hate the people who destroyed Scouting. Rotting soulless garbage.


25 posted on 07/07/2021 10:57:21 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: MJacks4

20 + years ago, our Town had 3 Boy Scout troops - One sponsored by the American Legion, another Troop Sponsored by the local Lions club and the third troop sponsored by the Lutheran Church. All of the troops were active and had a lot of Boys involved.

Today we have barely one troop with only 8 Scouts, sponsored by the Lions Club - and that is close to folding.


26 posted on 07/07/2021 11:23:56 AM PDT by EC Washington
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To: MJacks4

I’m a former scoutmaster, who helped 14 boys attain the rank of Eagle Scout. I’m an Eagle, as are my son and brother. I worked for the Boy Scouts, professionally, in the 1970’s, as a district scout executive. The organization is a sad, hollow caricature of what it was when I and my son were growing up. My three grandsons are not likely to become Boy Scouts, which is regrettable (to me) but wisely reasonable, considering the lack of ethics and morals in the current organization, as a whole.

Liberalism destroys everything it touches.


27 posted on 07/07/2021 12:12:36 PM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: MJacks4

The BSA was once a great American institution. Ruined by liberalism.


28 posted on 07/07/2021 12:13:59 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The government under democrats is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
But for whatever reason, they decided they would allow open homosexual leaders.

Trumps worthless first Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made that call.

29 posted on 07/07/2021 12:24:34 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Thanks for info.

That always got me, that the Boy Scouts won in court. Yet after that hard fought court case, they decided to allow gay leaders anyway.

The membership decline shows a certain number of parents are voting with their feet, so to speak, and avoiding having their sons in this new version of Boy Scouts. Another issue could well be now that girls are allowed in the Boy Scouts. Some people seem to have a hard time with the concept, that there should be organizations for boys only, and others for girls only.


30 posted on 07/07/2021 12:32:31 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Tudorfly; All

“My three grandsons are not likely to become Boy Scouts, which is regrettable (to me) but wisely reasonable, considering the lack of ethics and morals in the current organization, as a whole.”

If your feelings are the same about the current corrupted US military are similar, I’d entirely support you, and I proudly served stateside as an Army 01 and 02 in 1968 and 1069. I’m totally ashamed of what the current, “woke,” homosexualized military has become.


31 posted on 07/07/2021 12:35:30 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: libstripper

OOPs, 1969, not 1069.


32 posted on 07/07/2021 12:36:54 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

“Robert Gates and Rex Tillerson must be proud of themselves for destroying the BSA.”

America is falling because the Republicans we elect cave to the left on every issue. Gates and Tillerson are no different than the Bush family, the Rockefeller’s, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Kevin McCarthy, Linsday Graham, John McCain, and most GOP elected officials. Anyone who believes voting GOP in the 2022 elections will save the republic, should look at the Boy Scouts.


33 posted on 07/07/2021 12:39:17 PM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
From an ABC article: "The Boy Scouts’ problems are compounded by their decision to seek bankruptcy protection in February 2020 to cope with thousands of lawsuits filed by men who allege they were molested as youngsters by scout leaders."

These cases go back to BEFORE the gay leaders were legitimized. This situation is literally destroying the organization and they decided to make it official policy anyway. Because they all care more about getting plaudits from the left than the institution of the Boy Scouts.

34 posted on 07/07/2021 1:01:10 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: I want the USA back

It’s sad.


35 posted on 07/07/2021 1:46:36 PM PDT by MJacks4
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To: libstripper

Yeah, that’d put you in the start of the first Crusades.


36 posted on 07/07/2021 2:37:18 PM PDT by LouAvul (Lying headlines from fake news articles written by pimps masquerading as journalists.)
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To: MJacks4
BSA was the official program for boys in the LDS church. When the Scouts crossed the line, the church dropped their support. That gutted the memberships in the US.
37 posted on 07/07/2021 3:34:12 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: MJacks4

One of the Connecticut state park was an former Boy Scout camp another scout camp got sold to the Pequot tribe, since it was a spiritual place for them.


38 posted on 07/07/2021 7:29:25 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/5/21 at the NCGOP convention)
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To: LouAvul

I’m an old fart with only 2/3 of a farter, but that’s still rather a bit much.


39 posted on 07/08/2021 7:00:30 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: Tudorfly
I was very active in the Boy Scouts during the 1970s. It was life-changing for me. Raised as a city kid, it provided me my first real outdoors experiences such as camping, hiking, canoeing, etc. Back then we were allowed (rather expected) to carry pocket knives and know how to use them. Just a great experience all around and the scoutmasters were very dedicated. My last summer as a scout, I volunteered to be a camp counselor and spent six weeks straight at summer camp.

When I put my own boys through it during the late 1990s - early 2000s, it was not the same Scouts I went through. For one, pocket knives were strictly prohibited. Every activity was dumbed down and made "super safe" - parents were encouraged or even mandated to chaperone their sons on outside activities, including camping. Which was mostly the moms because the dads typically had to be at work.

After a couple years, my sons got bored with the whole experience and I pulled them out. I don't blame them one bit.

As an aside, my sister was in the Girl Scout program during the 1970s and that was a good experience for her as well. Even they did the whole camping thing - it wasn't just making brownies and selling cookies, that's for sure. I never understood why being a girl scout had such a stigma to it later on to the point where they rolled them into the boy scouts. Those girls scouts of the 1970s would outperform the typical boys of today in just about any outdoor activity.

40 posted on 07/08/2021 7:17:46 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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