Posted on 05/11/2017 3:16:10 PM PDT by super7man
Older teenagers will be pulled from the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), the Mormon church announced Thursday. The announcement from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints means an estimated 130,000-180,000 teenagers ages 14-18 will no longer participate in Boy Scouts starting next year. The Mormon church is the largest sponsor of Boy Scouts troops in the United States. The Boy Scouts' "Varsity" and "Venturing" programs for older teens had become difficult to implement within the religion, Mormon officials said in a news release. "Instead, Young Men activities will focus on spiritual, social, physical and intellectual outlined by the Church," officials said. "These activities are designed to be fun and meaningful and provide opportunities for personal growth and development." The change applies just to the United States and Canada, where the "Varsity" and "Venturing" programs are implemented, according to Mormon officials. Some 280,000 younger boys ages 8-13 will be kept Scouts while the church continues to develop a global scouting-type program. The loss is only a fraction of the 2.3 million youth in Boy Scouts, which has had a close bond with the Utah-based religion for more than 100 years. BOY SCOUTS WILL ALLOW TRANSGENDER CHILDREN INTO PROGRAMS The faith said the decision wasn't triggered by Boy Scouts policy change in 2015 to allow gay troop leaders since Mormon troops were allowed to run their groups to adhere to church teachings. The Mormon church opposes gay marriage and teaches its members that being in a homosexual relationship is a sin. The church has been working on an overarching global program for years.
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They are close minded to the homo molestation of boys.
What were Mormons doing in the BSA in the first place?
You’d think with that many teens, they have their own Mormon version of the boys scouts.
Uh, the Mormon’s are Americans. Why would they have wanted a separate organization?
Utah is devoid of teens? Utah probably has the highest birth rate in the nation!
The reason the Right tends to lose - beside Original Sin and spiritual entropy - is that rightists rarely seek to infiltrate the enemy strongholds. We live and let live.
Rightists tend to be pioneers and libertarians; we seek freedom - hence the predominance of conservatives in the wide open spaces, pursuing independent enterprises. Contrary to the Big Lie about fascism, the extreme right wind tends toward anarchy, not any form of collectivism (which is what fascism is).
Leftists are herders through and through: Ganging up and taking over what the individual conservative producers made is as natural to them as ordering a half-caff soy-milk latte at Starbuck’s.
Walt Disney, Boy Scouts - it happens to them all eventually.
... and the sad corollary to my above is this: Rightists rarely successfully take back what the Left stole from them. Instead, they simply abandon it. That is what the Mormons are doing.
If We The People under Donald Trump are able to take back America from the communists, I will be surprised (joyously surprised, but surprised).
Thankyou Freepers for not turning this post into another “I Hate the Mormons pile-on” ... like most reference to the LDS church generally attract ... seriously it gets a little old!
I hope they are doing well and growing.
Conservative Boy Scout Alternatives
https://hubpages.com/sports/Conservative-Boy-Scout-Alternatives
Girl Scout Alternatives
https://hubpages.com/sports/Girl-Scout-Alternatives
At first I was going to suggest you forgot your sarc tag. Then I put two and two together and yeah. I get your meaning.
Yes, it’s sad. I feel sorry for the boys and good Scout Masters.
Right on!
Pretty strong consistent growth.
My son just earned trail life’s highest award, the Freedom Award. It’s at the level of Eagle but with a few more elements. We’re having a formal award ceremony Saturday.
Congrats to your son!!
On the plus side, you get some of the best service in the nation from fast food places, amusement parks and other places which used to employ polite teens rather than twenty somethings with attitudes and illegal aliens.
Amen!
Good move by the Mormons. The left owns the scouts.
Trail Life, brother group of American Heritage Girls...
http://www.traillifeusa.com/
Congrats!
Thanks. I appreciate it.
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