Posted on 12/18/2018 8:04:09 AM PST by Kaslin
The erosion of what many Americans once believed were the foundations of our country continues apace. They include, but are not limited to, overspending and debt (personal and national), never-ending wars, uncontrolled borders leading to massive immigration with no time for or expectation of assimilation and political divisions that grow wider by the day.
It's now the Boy Scouts of America's turn to join the parade.
The organization, which began in 1910 to, according to its website, "...train youth in responsible citizenship, character development and self-reliance" so they become honest men, worthy of admiration and respect, is now in danger of dissolving because of lawsuits filed alleging scouts were sexually abused.
In response to the suits, Chief Scout Executive Michael Surbaugh issued a statement:
"We have a social and moral responsibility to fairly compensate victims who suffered abuse during their time in Scouting." Yes, they do, but what about their "moral responsibility" to keep sexual predators out of scouting so that boys won't be harmed in the first place?
The Scout oath says "On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight."
What does this mean in our anything goes culture? On my honor? In today's twisted thinking, how should honor be defined and by whom? Duty to God? What about the atheist? What does "best" mean and doesn't that discriminate against boys who can't live up to such a standard? Physically strong? Doesn't that mean that the physically weak might feel excluded? And then we have the most offensive of all, at least by ever-shifting standards of what constitutes morality. Scouts are to be "morally straight."
According to whose morals? And what does "straight" mean? To certain activists, it could sound like an anti-gay slur.
But this is not a gay issue, this is a criminal issue. This is about sexual predators taking advantage of lax leadership and mutable organizational guidelines that make it easy for them to gain access to vulnerable children.
How many Boy Scouts must suffer abuse before someone at the top of the BSA organization admits they made a mistake by opening the door so wide it became inevitable that some very bad people would enter? How many more children will suffer before BSA admits they did not do their due diligence?
Some of the alleged abuses go back to the '60s, according to The Wall Street Journal, but that is precisely where the rending of American culture began. The cultural decline was facilitated by court rulings banning prayer and Bible reading in public schools and the Playboy philosophy of Hugh Hefner and his counterpart, Helen Gurley Brown, who told female readers of Cosmopolitan magazine they could be as promiscuous as men.
Some scouts and scoutmasters have announced they are leaving or have already left the scouting program and have either aligned themselves with church programs or abandoned scouting altogether. If the Boy Scouts of America files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy their so-called leadership will have only themselves to blame.
The last time I checked, a "tolerance" badge was not one of the awards Boy Scouts can earn. Given the lowering of standards in the scouting program, it should be no surprise that the Boy Scouts of America is headed for the ash heap that has claimed other "morally straight" entities.
The scouts abandoned their duty to God when they allowed gay scout leaders in their ranks.
“The scouts abandoned their duty to God when they allowed gay scout leaders in their ranks.”
Yep.
I’d LIKE to add that it would be a wonderful thing if PARENTS actually RAISED their own CHILDREN to the standards initially set by a group like The Boy Scouts, but since the Socialists & the Feminists (one and the same) have also DESTROYED The American Family, that’s not going to happen in as big of numbers as we need to save our Nation, either.
Just what DO Socialists THINK the End Game is going to be? They’re ALL going to be on the top of the dog pile ruling over the three remaining Serfs?
*SNORT*
If this country ever regains its sanity, this at least leaves the door open to rebuild the organization.
FWIW, the Boy Scouts are still thriving in two non-Christian countries, India and Japan. because they refused to surrender to the Gaystapo.
Actually, they think they are going to import serfs from the third world to replace the non-compliant uppidy flyover Americans.
Diana in Wisconsin, that is exactly what they think.
They have no problem with crushing the personal freedoms of others, or dragging them down into socialistic hell hole economies, because THEY think they will be the "party members" who will have money, privileges, and property.
In their pea-brains, they think they are the smartest people in the world, so of course logically, that is how it will work out for them.
That was like a rancher allowing coyotes/wolves and feral dogs to Shepard and 'protect' their sheep.
Or like chicken ranch owners allowing foxes into their chicken coops 24/7.
I would never allow my sons to enroll in todays politically correct venues of Boy Scoutery. I say Scoutery because they are no loner “Scouts.”
Instead I taught my son woodscraft, wilderness navigation, topo-map reading, trapping, how to sight in and accurately shoot rifles, shotgun and pistol, how to select and sharpen a good knife,how to sharpen and use axes and hatchets, how to organize and carry a back country backpack, canoing and fishing as well as tenting , survival shelter construction, and first aid. How to cook for themselves , bake bread, both at home and over an open fire. And I taught them how to hunt wild game , how to snare small game and prepare it properly for storage and cooking,how to build a smoke house, how to dress,wrap and freeze wild and domestic meat, how to plant and maintain a vegetable garden and apple orchard, and how to preserve by drying and canning.
I did not need Scoutery to do that. America should turn its back on this traduced organization led by pu$$y whipped , crossed eyed men who cannot tell right from wrong , shit from shinolla, or asshole from quim for that matter.
There is nothing much American about today’s “Boy Scouteries of America.”
But there are a few endangered niches of genuine Boy Scouts and this is one of them, a rare animal indeed:
CHESTY PULLER VFW POST 1503 LEGACY
http://www.vfwpost1503.com/about_our_post.html
I quit the Boy Scouts in 1954 because, on a weekend camping trip, the Scoutmaster was indoctrinating some of “his” Scouts into homosexual activity.
I was 13, and wanted nothing to do with homosexual activity, (even at that young age, I was REALLY interested in girls!) so I quit the scouts.
I never told my parents why I quit; I have often, over the years, wished I had told them and made a stink about it. At the time, I was too timid, is all I can think.
The United States was founded on a principle of individual freedom, and was built by men who were often unconventional in their thinking and in their business practices. The idea of creating a national organization to establish and reinforce standards of personal behavior that are most effectively promoted through good parenting and personal responsibility surely would have seemed alien to them.
I disagree.
My son got his Eagle Scout in 2016. He had a great Scoutmaster and great group of young men in the troop. A lot of camping, woodcraft, survival skills, and community service, community service, community service. You have a great Scoutmaster, you’re going to have a great troop kept on task. I feel very lucky he had such a great experience and can hold onto that the rest of his life. The Scoutmaster will make or break the troop.
This is precisely the type of "organization" that doesn't need a national bureaucracy. In fact, it doesn't need a national organization at all. The whole thing should be run at the troop level -- and each troop should call themselves whatever the hell they want.
It was a great American institution, but like so many others, has been ruined because its directors adopted liberalism instead of common sense.
Conservative Boy Scout Alternatives
https://wehavekids.com/youth-programs/Conservative-Boy-Scout-Alternatives
As a former Cub, Boy Scout, Explorer, Order of the Arrow, and Troop leader I am discusted with the current state of Scouting. Better it shut down than become a nest perverts. Socialist indoctrination for scouts will be just around the corner, if it hasn’t already started. Once duty to country and God, honor and morality are lost - all is lost.
They do look like excellent alternatives.
I grew up reading Boy’s Life and my heart swelled with the tales of Scouts performing life saving feats based on their Scout principles and training.
I always looked upon the Scouts as a para-military organization which prepared young men for eventual military service. The Morse code and silent hand signals were part of the Scout Handbook when I joined.
This viewpoint will be missed if it is lost, and Churches are not going to implement this. (Nor sadly is a left leaning organization like the Sierra Club.) There is no doubt that our society has been altered for the worst by these changes, but our generation does still remember.
Our son is also an Eagle Scout, and proud, but he has always craved the kind of acceptance that the left provides to their community. I hope his Scouting background will always provide some stability in the world he will need to endure.
Actually, over 800 churches have taken on Trail Life USA in the last five years.
The heritage of Baden Powell’s vision is strong with Trail Life.
I was a Scoutmaster for several years before joining Trail Life as a Troopmaster. With a strong Christian backbone and robust outdoor focus, it’s everything it should be and none of the PC nonsense.
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