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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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KEYWORDS: blogpimp; boyscouts; scoutsbsa; traillife; woke
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1 posted on 07/07/2021 9:07:14 AM PDT by MJacks4
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“guide generations of courageous young men to honor God, lead with integrity, serve others, and experience outdoor adventure.”

And hopefully learn how to properly display an American flag, knowledge of which is on the verge of disappearing by the look of things.


2 posted on 07/07/2021 9:10:01 AM PDT by PfromHoGro (Orwell was optimistic.)
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Being Woke … how idiots do moronic.


3 posted on 07/07/2021 9:12:10 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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The Left is a giant parasite that invades everything healthy, sucks its life, then kills it.


4 posted on 07/07/2021 9:12:12 AM PDT by PGR88
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I hate mission statements as a practice. I make a huge exception for the Trail Life USA mission as you quoted.


5 posted on 07/07/2021 9:15:46 AM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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Who would have thunk that normal people would have pulled their kids out of the boy scouts confronted with the woke nonsense. I hope they also pull their kids out of any school that keeps pushing the critical race theory crap.
Funding for schools is based on backsides in seats soooo less backsides, less funding.


6 posted on 07/07/2021 9:15:49 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media.)
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Stevie Wonder could see that coming.


7 posted on 07/07/2021 9:17:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Boy Scouts decision to lift its ban on gay scout leaders

What could possibly go wrong?... wrong.... wrong.... wrong....
8 posted on 07/07/2021 9:21:12 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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I recall how the Boy Scouts were sued over banning homosexual scout leaders. They won their case at the Supreme court. But for whatever reason, they decided they would allow open homosexual leaders. And nowadays they aren’t actually the Boy Scouts anymore since they admit females.


9 posted on 07/07/2021 9:22:19 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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I think a rebranding is needed to raise the membership numbers. Rename them to the Boi Scouts.
10 posted on 07/07/2021 9:22:44 AM PDT by glorgau
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I never miss an opportunity to inform Boy Scout and Girl Scout fundraisers that I stopped supporting their organization due to their LGBTQXYZ and abortion policies.


11 posted on 07/07/2021 9:35:13 AM PDT by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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I’d think outdoorsy, self-reliant type families would be the primary clients of the Boy Scouts, and those people probably tend toward the conservative spectrum.


12 posted on 07/07/2021 9:37:49 AM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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Robert Gates and Rex Tillerson must be proud of themselves for destroying the BSA.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/12/tillersons_assault_on_scouting.html


13 posted on 07/07/2021 9:38:15 AM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: Dilbert San Diego

https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/female-class-eagle-scouts-honored-virtually-76033916


14 posted on 07/07/2021 9:38:47 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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They destroyed it on purpose.

They hate what they cannot understand.


15 posted on 07/07/2021 9:40:05 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice)
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The very same people that took over the Boy Scouts and had their way
with a generation or two of scouts so that the organization could be
bankrupted paying off the victims, are the same sodomites that are busy
using the same proven formula against our churches and other institutions.

I’m evilphobic and perversophobic.

I suppose that’s not OK with the LGBQWTF crowd either…

There is plenty of evidence for a fear of embracing evil and perversion into one’s life, leading to a happier, longer life.

Ignoring it as it targets your society and culture, your public and private institutions, your children, and your pets, doesn’t have a good track record, either.

~Easy


16 posted on 07/07/2021 9:47:47 AM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

>>I recall how the Boy Scouts were sued over banning homosexual scout leaders. They won their case at the Supreme court. But for whatever reason, they decided they would allow open homosexual leaders.<<

Follow the money:

https://www.newsmax.com/fastfeatures/boy-scouts-gay-ban-end/2015/10/21/id/697408/

Scouting HQ had become dependent upon corporate funding, and woke corporations had demanded they end their gay bans.


17 posted on 07/07/2021 9:49:04 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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The left got what it wanted.


18 posted on 07/07/2021 9:50:23 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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Boy Scout membership deserves to crater, not only for its record of pedophilia, but its caving to wokeness, and overall lessening focus on basic values of its founder. One example would be the idea that, in the pledge, the phrase “mentally awake and morally straight” might be dumped over concern that it might offend some snowflakes.


19 posted on 07/07/2021 9:51:38 AM PDT by DPMD
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I had a scout with purple hair ask for a donation to his/her (I couldn’t tell which) Eagle Scout project. I said thank you but no thanks. I didn’t want my name associated with the group anymore.


20 posted on 07/07/2021 9:52:54 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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