Boy Scouts of America Considers Bankruptcy Amid Sex-Abuse Lawsuits

30 I weep that the Socialists have managed to destroy a great American organization. They were able to do it by attacking it from within.

No, it was the evil court system, and the evil media-weapon-system. Those two things were how the vermin got into the BSA. Once they were in, it was predictable what would happen, but if they had been kept out, this wouldn't have happened. Letting them in is the fault. They could have never destroyed it from within if other forces hadn't pushed the scouts into letting them in.

It was always about the $$$. BSA has always operated on a shoestring budget. As the culture-at-large became more infected with cultural Marxism, in this case homosexual civil rights, the pressure increased on local United Way chapters to decrease/ deny grants to local councils. Most local councils were/ are heavily dependent on UW funding. As the corporate boardrooms became infected with the demand for more diversity training of their employees, the pro-homosexual lobby saw its chance and climbed on board the diversity train. The National BSA Council is advised by the National Council Executive Board, and more specifically, the National Executive Committee - ~ 27 volunteer officers who are essentially a Who's Who from Fortune 500. That is where the power is because they help fund the BSA National Council with corporate grants and personal endowments. The last 5 BSA National (volunteer) Presidents are too blame.

39 … The 1970s was when much of the sexual abuse occurred.

It's been with BSA since its founding in 1910. Since the 1920s, the BSA has maintained a highly confidential set of "ineligible volunteer" files, nicknamed the "perversion files". You are correct that the current spate of lawsuits against BSA are from abuse incidents during the 1970s.

See Bert at 34 …

34 … the development and implementation of the BSA Youth Protection Training program that every registered adult must pass to be registered. BSA requires two deep action when dealing with boys. That is, when contact with boys is conducted, there must always be two leaders in direct involvement.

YPT was introduced into the BSA in 1988. In the 2000s it became mandatory that adult leaders repeat the training every 2 years.

4 It’s a shame that what was once a right of passage has been corrupted beyond recognition at the hands of the liberals. Girls Scouts are next.
14 Feminists and liberals hate men.

25 … The Girl Scouts are still around, but the Left took them over a long time ago. …

The GSUSA voted at their annual business meeting sometime during the 1990s to amend their oath with respect to the word "God". Members are now permitted to drop any reference to a supreme being or may substitute the name of their preferred deity.

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