desertion in the face of the enemy is inexcusable.
BSA still has two deep leadership policy with mandatory youth protection training that is the best there is
As far as I am concerned nothing really happened. Boys join at 11, never older than 13. There are no queer 11 year olds.
The deserters don’t know about boys. The boys know each other and a queer will be ostracized. The boys can and will handle the situation in the extremely rare event it ever actually develops. Troops where leaders don’t let the boys lead generally wither from poor adult leadership. In our area, those are the units that are gone.
The leaving by those holier than thou will pass and their sons will loose out on the best training in the world. There are llots of churchmen that want control and a scout troop in their church but not under their thumb is disdained. They will cobble up something to try to make up for the loss
BSA will be better to have weeded out the weak of spirit.
Our troop lost no one. I expect we will grow
Looks to me like you’re being the holier-than-thou, especially with your unsubstantiated flat statements, but that’s to be expected.
Grow, shrink, stay the same, we don’t care... finally a really Christian alternative has been founded. But I hope you repent so that reuniting, rather than having to hear your excuses, will be possible.
Your thinly veiled ad hominems again demonstrate the persistent support for an organization that has shown itself to be undeserving of such “loyalty”.
You’re still parroting the BSA party line bert...
How do you KNOW there are no queer 11 or 13 year old boys?
Again, Why is it permissible, under BSA policy for a queer 17 year old to tent with an 11 year old hetero, but not permissible for an 18 year old hetero to tent with his 17 year old hetero buddy?
And I’m here to tell you that if I ever caught any Scout behaving in an un-Scout like manner as you propose with regards to ostracizing, I’d have his head on a pike before I would the queer. Why? Because he knows better and the queer, if he isn’t engaged in any behavior that requires my intervention or action should be left alone to learn what he can. Our Troop policy is to address the behavior, since National(SPIT) hasn’t provided any direction, we’ve made our own.
And if you really cared to know how the rot at National is affecting many Scout leaders, you might try reading my response here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3141987/posts?page=68#68.
Then again, since I’m a “holier than thou deserter”, maybe not since I’m not “worthy” of such deference.