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Boy Scouts of America On Verge Of Bankruptcy After Gender-Neutral Name Change
NN ^ | 2018-12-13 21:00 | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 12/13/2018 2:46:13 PM PST by McQ444

The Boy scouts of America, the 108-year-old organization synonymous with traditional values in the US, is on the verge of declaring bankruptcy, according to the Wall Street Journal.The report comes amid news of sinking membership and various controversies surrounding the traditional organization, including its decision to change its program name from Boy Scouts to 'gender natural' Scouts BSA allowing girls to enter the program.

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To: From The Deer Stand

The left ruins everything it touches.


21 posted on 12/13/2018 3:07:13 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: McQ444
...108-year-old organization synonymous with traditional values in the US...

Not any more it isn't

22 posted on 12/13/2018 3:07:26 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: McQ444

Like years ago the Campfire Girls had to include boys.


23 posted on 12/13/2018 3:09:14 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: neverevergiveup

The process of destruction was

1) Get the organization hooked on corporate funding.

2) Force them to become PC in order to continue to be funded.

3) Their core left, causing an implosion.


24 posted on 12/13/2018 3:09:44 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: McQ444

Liberals touched a formerly top notch organization.

And, true to form, they took a bodacious Obama on it.

It now smells to high heaven, is covered with flies, and is properly being carried to the dust bin.


25 posted on 12/13/2018 3:11:20 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: McQ444

I wonder if it is possible for some conservatives to buy the Boy Scouts, change the rules and bring it back to what it used to be. Maybe not. Perhaps the brand is gone forever.


26 posted on 12/13/2018 3:11:56 PM PST by plain talk
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To: McQ444

some of my most happy memories were Scout meetings in Driftwood, Texas in the late fifties.

Sorry that lefties have destroyed another venerable institution but would rather see it close down than run by extremists.


27 posted on 12/13/2018 3:12:51 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: McQ444

Sir Adam Baden Powell would not have recognized the current BSA for some years now.


28 posted on 12/13/2018 3:14:44 PM PST by myerson
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I wonder if it has anything to do with complete abandonment of their founding principles?


29 posted on 12/13/2018 3:16:28 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Da Coyote

I have to say, at the Pack/Troop/Ship level none of this stuff ever mattered. Ever. It’s always been about opening the world up to kids.

Some bank robber somewhere was asked why he robbed banks. He replied ‘That’s where the money is.’

The Boy Scouts is a bank for pedophiles. I was a scout in the 70’s, and back then the controls on it were extremely lax. It’s getting taken down today because people who were kids then are suing now.

Full stop.

There may be sex going on between single adult leaders (and married ones at that), but sex and scouting aren’t happening. Scout Oath, Scout Law, and trying to give kids an opportunity to take some limited risks and fail gracefully.

It’s a good organization, better for its struggles and one of the safest in the world right now for kids as a result.

But hey, you can always go to the better national org for kids. You know, the perfect one, where nobody gets hurt, has all the money they need, great program, and motivated adults that have only the kids interests at heart.

You could, but there isn’t one.


30 posted on 12/13/2018 3:18:18 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: McQ444

Print the names of all of the board members.


31 posted on 12/13/2018 3:19:20 PM PST by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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To: tbw2

Actually only about half of Trail Life USA troops had prior BSA experience. The rest started off from scratch.

In my case, we left BSA in 2013 with fifteen boys. Our troop now has 75. Very few had prior experience. Due to age, of the 75 we have now, only 3 or 4 were Boy Scouts.


32 posted on 12/13/2018 3:23:10 PM PST by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Yeah, this is the fifth thread on this WSJ news since yesterday!


33 posted on 12/13/2018 3:29:16 PM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Doche2X2

What pagan Leftism touches does not turn into gold. Instead it rots and crumbles away.


34 posted on 12/13/2018 3:31:11 PM PST by spirited irish
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To: fwdude

The NRA is apparently next


35 posted on 12/13/2018 3:31:23 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: faithhopecharity

BSA has a new name?
what, praytell is it?

Chapter 11.


36 posted on 12/13/2018 3:33:04 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Flick Lives

SUPER!


37 posted on 12/13/2018 3:40:11 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE) Is)
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To: From The Deer Stand


"Just another victim of Liberalism. ”

Yep!

Liberals ruin everything they touch.

The reverse of the "Midas Touch"..
38 posted on 12/13/2018 3:43:00 PM PST by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: McQ444

Another institution destroyed by the SJWs.

Back to the dawn of civilization, one finds countless examples where menfolk organized groups to train young males. Males were taught how to hunt, how to fight, how to lead, how to protect the tribe, respect for elders and tradition. In a word, how to persist civilization itself. It is part of the reason we’ve succeeded as a species. Now in the name of equality, a modern version of this tribal learning, this civilizing force, has been destroyed.


39 posted on 12/13/2018 3:44:05 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: McQ444
The Boy scouts of America.... is on the verge of declaring bankruptcy, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Maybe Tillerson can explain how his "brilliant" move to allow homosexual scout leaders was "morally right and legal" and his moves saved the BSA.

Trump would have done the "wrong thing" with his "stupidity" yet I bet if Trump ran BSA it would be busting membership roll records.
40 posted on 12/13/2018 3:48:17 PM PST by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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