Posted on 11/25/2025 5:23:26 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Scouting America responded on Tuesday to a reported memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seeking to cut ties with the organization, saying it was “surprised and disappointed” by the potential policy change, as the military has given its support to the Scouts since 1937.
Congress requires the Pentagon to support Scouting America’s Jamboree, lending trucks, ambulances and medical teams free of charge.
“The Scouting movement has had a strong relationship with our nation’s military going back more than a century,” according to the group. “From the tremendous support of the West Virginia National Guard at our National Jamborees to Scout troops that provide stability for the children of military families deployed around the globe, our nation’s military has walked side-by-side with Scouts for generations.”
It also noted that “an enormous percentage of those in our military academies are Scouts and Eagle Scouts.”
Hegseth is reportedly upset with the group for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. His memo, first reported by NPR, accuses Scouting America — formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America — of attacking boy-friendly spaces and for being “genderless.” The memo has yet to be sent to Congress.
“The organization once endorsed by President Theodore Roosevelt no longer supports the future of American boys,” Hegseth wrote in the memo.
The proposal calls for the Pentagon to pull medical and logistical aid to the National Jamboree, an event where up to 20,000 Scouts gather at a remote site in West Virginia about every four years. It also looks to prohibit Scouting troops from meeting at military installations in the U.S. and abroad.
In a statement to The Hill, a Pentagon official said the department “will not comment on leaked documents that we cannot authenticate and that may be pre-decisional.”
But Hegseth can withhold such aid if he determines giving...
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Good, end the cooperation with the woke.
He’s rght
Agree with Hegseth. This isn’t the scouts of our youth.
I stopped supporting them when they went gay.
Actions have consequences.
Solution: join Trail Life USA. It’s limited to biological boys
Hegseth puts it mildly.
It became Scouting For Boys.
He’s right.
Yep. Another reason to like Hegseth.
I was a Scout growing up, and their embrace of homosexuality and inviting females to join Scouts just did it in for me.
You are right about that. I was a Scout in the late 50s and early 60s and it was great. But like all great American institutions, the hard left set out to destroy it and they have pretty much succeeded.
Not the scouts anymore.
Scouting does nothing for the military, and I don’t want anyone who supports the current scouting values anywhere near the armed forces. As they did with our public schools, they are now doing with scouts.
April 9, 2025
Tami Radabaugh, the deputy assistant to the secretary of defense for strategic engagement and a direct adviser to Hegseth, has been lobbying other senior officials to suspend the Pentagon’s decades-old relationship with the group, including arguing that when Hegseth was a host on Fox News, he decried Scouting America as an organization that had “lost what they stand for,” the people familiar said.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4316062/posts
"support to the Scouts since 1937"
My son was in Boy Scouts from age 6 (1989) to age 18 (2001) Eagle Scout. It was a great organization. He had many opportunities to do any different things, travel, learn skills, self-reliance, leadership.
It breaks my heart what they’ve done to it. I wouldn’t have my grandson join. I would not have my grandgirls join Girl Scouts.
Damn Liberals!
I remember when big city police departments like San Diego and corporations like Bank of America cut ties with the Boy Scouts because they wouldn’t give in to the gay agenda.
1992
“San Diego Police Chief Bob Burgreen severed the department’s ties to the Boy Scouts of America on Tuesday because the organization discriminates against homosexuals.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-21-me-367-story.html
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As early as 1992, long-time corporate sponsors, including Levi
Strauss & Co., Wells Fargo & Co., and BankAmerica Corporation,
began revoking their contributions in protest of the B.S.A.’s anti-gay
policy.295 More recently, Chase Manhattan Bank and Textron Inc. withdrew hundreds of thousands of dollars that used to support the
B.S.A. on both the local and national levels.296 The Rhode Islandbased CVS pharmacy chain decided to stop donating to an annual
B.S.A. dinner because of the conflict between its company-wide nondiscrimination policy and the B.S.A.’s anti-gay stance.297 Merrill
Lynch is also questioning its support of the B.S.A.298
Local United Way chapters across the country, the B.S.A.’s largest
contributor,299 are also questioning their support.300 As of fall 2000,
ten United Way chapters have adopted anti-discrimination policies,
requiring local B.S.A. chapters not to discriminate on the basis of
sexual orientation in return for continued funding.301 Several United Way chapters have withdrawn funding altogether because of the antigay policy,302 while still other chapters have amended their
procedures to allow individual donors to prevent any of their
donations to the United Way from going to the B.S.A.303 Yet, the
majority of United Way chapters continue to support the B.S.A., even though a letter condemning the B.S.A.’s anti-gay policy
accompanies many of their contributions.305
In Connecticut, the state’s Commission on Human Rights and
Opportunities removed the B.S.A. from the list of charities to which
state employees may contribute directly from their paychecks because
of the group’s anti-gay policy.306 Removing the B.S.A. from this list
will cost the organization an estimated $25,000 annually.307
In
response, the B.S.A. filed suit against Connecticut’s comptroller and
the Connecticut State Employee Campaign Committee, ironically
claiming that their removal from the charity list is discriminatory,
violating not only Connecticut’s laws on discrimination but also the
United States Constitution.308
In 1998, Chicago became the first municipality to “formally end[]
all support for scouting programs as long as the [B.S.A.] continue[s]
to discriminate on the basis of religious belief and sexual
orientation.”
309 Since then, several municipalities, most notably the city of Los Angeles, have followed Chicago’s lead.310 Along similar
lines, the American Civil Liberties Union (“A.C.L.U.”) filed suit in
San Diego “to oust the local Boy Scouts from public property.”
311
The B.S.A. is also losing support from public schools across the
country because of its anti-gay policy. Although approximately
twenty-percent of youth B.S.A. members belong to units chartered by
educational organizations,312 that number is shrinking as many of the
nation’s school districts are either limiting B.S.A. access to their
schools or preventing access altogether.313
The A.C.L.U. is currently
However, it is now hopelessly woke. Boy's Life, their magazine, is now called Scout Life, or something like that, and to become an Eagle Scout, you have to earn merit badges in Citizenship in the Community, Citizenship in the Nation and Citizenship in the World as well as Environmental Science, so that when you awarded the rank of Eagle, you will be a thoroughly indoctrinated Social Justice Warrior.
Accurate
I grew up in Scouting in the 70’s.
Great times.
When the BSA went full on fag and added girls, I turned my back on the organization.
I applaud Mr. Hegseth’s decsion.
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