Posted on 01/04/2014 12:00:07 PM PST by T Ruth
There are other alternatives to the Boy Scouts that are entirely religiously based, which gives them more protection than the Boy Scouts did.
Conservative Boy Scout Alternatives
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/Conservative-Boy-Scout-Alternatives
Sadly, I am pessimistic about this being a succesful venture. I hope they take over the BSA but I just don’t see Trail Life USA gaining a strong foot hold.
To me, a former long time scout, the BSA is dead. There is no business for them to be involved in sexuality whatsoever let alone gay sex. Now, it will become just like the girlscouts and support and promote every progressive policy out there.
Thank you for posting this article, it gives me hope for my grandsons. Hopefully this group will expand into Canada. The situation here is intolerable. Scouts Canada has taken a huge downfall, starting with going co-ed. An alternative is available (Baden-Powell Scouting) but it too is co-ed. Boys and young men need a place where they can just be “with the boys” and have good, moral, male role models to guide them in their activities. Everywhere else they are in a co-ed situation, home, school, etc.
See this article: Christian Alternative to Boy Scouts Launches On New Year's Day With Close to 500 Troops
Great news.
My grandson just made eagle scout and we are proud of him, he got out just in time....Lots of hard work for both him and his mother, she was the driver to get him places...
I suspect that the progressive groups targeted BSA as much for their part in American tradition as they did for their disallowing homosexuals.
TrailLife should be a less appealing target.
The one thing that killed the Boy Scouts is something that any replacement organization has to avoid - central control. That was the ultimate death of BSA - strong district offices with full time staff (for what? Never could figure that out, aside from the human resources person who was hired to handle all the fund draining benefits for the other full time staff.)
Once those strong district offices were created, they then ‘adopted’ many of the trusts that funded individual chartered troops, took over the management of scouting resources like camps, and ultimately gave birth to the strong national organization which took everything a step further, choosing to take scouting materials out of stores and sell directly, and then create more and more rules to require more and more purchases of BSA related material and clothing.
In some places, state organizations grew, and in others, regional district offices oversaw districts within their region. All continually sucked down the billions and billions that were in trust funds to handle the requirements of troops, camps and programs.
And then they ran out of other people’s money. Fundraising became a full time task for troops, doubling or tripling the time spent on traditional scouting events like campouts.
The ‘acceptance’ of gay scouts (or rather, openly sexually active gay scouts, as I never came across a troop who cared if a scout might be straight or whatever...) is a symptom of the disease. It was a last ditch attempt to recapture the stream of corporate donations that pay for all those retirement plans for full time adult scouts. But of course, that attempt failed, and now billions in private donations also aren’t coming in.
I would hope that any replacement organization learns these critical lessons, that ultimately, the only district level support should be done by volunteers as it has traditionally been done, that zero (or near zero) national organizational support is required, and absolutely no full time adult leaders at any level.
500 troops is a great start.
3. They need to stay away from corporate donations.
That’s primarily what sunk the BSA.
I know here in NE Mississippi there is an exodus from the BSA since the homo ruling.
Thank you for posting this! Just checked with friends involved in scouting and the troop they are in plus two others close by are already in the process of converting. Hoping to get my son involved although he’s pretty old to be starting, we just didn’t have time before this year.
I’m skeptical of TL’s long-term durability against the Gaystapo as well. Every assurance we are given about Trail Life was once true of the BSA, which has (had) at its core a belief in and reverence for God. The vast majority of Troops are sponsored and deeply influenced by local church bodies after all.
The BSA was also once decentralized and supported by the grass-roots local interest in boys’ development. But the lust for money can insideously invade any organization. It only takes a tiny inroad.
That said, I heartily support Trail Life and hope/pray that it will remain steadfast against the coming onslaught, for without AND from within.
Here in northern NJ a friend involved with Scouts told me they were dying even before that, consolidating troops and selling land. The influx of foreigners meant less American kids to begin with, and many parents felt the focus was too much on fundraising rather than activities. The whole child molesting issue didn’t help, as even though it focused on priests it came to light that other authority figures (teachers, coaches and scoutmasters) had issues as well.
The BSA is rotting from within, as is the girl scouts, which partners with Planned Parenthood. Sex, sex, sex. No thanks.
As an observant Jewish family, we wish this new and exciting group all the successes in the world!
-(montag’s wife)
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