I’m still proud of the Boy Scouts, especially OA members and Eagle Scouts. Anyone who dislikes the Boy Scouts because they have principles that they refuse to compromise can get bent.
Everyone I knew, along with myself, were Boy Scouts back in the 50s. Scouts, like most everything decent about America is soon to be gone with the wind.
They are now the Sodomy Scouts to me. It’s the poor kids getting bent over by the homosexuals people should mourn
They stopped having principles
I performed OA. And came within 3 months from eagle.
One needed to be a Life scout for 6 months before Eagle. And I became Life 3 months before my 18th b-day. D’oh!
Gets my vote.
F anyone who wants to trash the scouts for standing up for what is right, and more importantly the safety of the individual boy scouts.
NAMLA couldn’t have better fellow travelers...
Do the Boy Scouts have principles they refuse to compromise?
It is understood that this is an unstable, temporary step until the BSA "goes all the way" and allows homosexual adult leaders. Within a year scouts claiming to be homosexual will turn eighteen and apply to be adult leaders. The BSA will have no coherent argument to deny them.
Furthermore, the new policy was designed to destroy the defense which the Scouts successfully used years ago to restrict homosexuals from leadership. That was the argument that a private organization could vindicate its own uniformly applied membership principles. Now the BSA can't say that anymore.
It seems to me that the BSA compromised their principles severely, not to mention, as others have pointed out, failed those parts of the Scout Oath which say that a Scout is brave, trustworthy, reverent.
Amen, Sir.
My son was both, and his only son was also, but has gone on to be a Boy Scout with a Gun, having graduated from Parris Island in Sept.
The ethics instilled in them will sustain them through their entire lives. What the national leadership has done, under intense pressure, cannot undo that.