[fwdude]

I don’t care what the detractors say, the BSA sold out its principles over 4 years ago and are reaping the inevitable fallout.

[faithhopecharity]

Moral breakdown frequently leads to social, financial, organizational ruin. Let the BSA go out of business and take your kids to any of the several better, less harmful clubs in town.

[SamAdams76]

I had a good experience scouting during the 1970s, did the whole Cub Scount/Webelo/Boy Scout thing. In those days we did real camping and hiking, we learned how to kill frogs with slingshots and we would fry their legs over the campfire on a stick. See if they get away with that today! Our summer camp even featured archery and rifle ranges.

In the late 1990s, I put my own sons through the program but it was already in steep decline. Boys weren't even allowed to carry a pocketknife and the mothers went everywhere with them. It was more like helicopter parent scouting.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Read the 1963 communist goals

Undermining all of the institutions that made America great was one of them.

BSA used to be one of those institutions.

Now it’s a casualty.

[tomkat]

The headline says it ALL !

[Responsibility2nd]

It’s Not Just Financial Bankruptcy The old American Boy Scouts might as well be filing for moral bankruptcy, having lost both its base and elite cultural capital. What used to be an organization designed to help boys become men has now been re-fashioned in line with the new gnosticism of American culture, accepting LGTBQIA ideology, while abandoning its traditional ascetic position about sex and its opposition to atheism.

 

He's right. It's not just the queer agenda that has destroyed BSA. The new normal in our culture today is to relegate men (and boys) to a third class status of individuals we should barely tolerate due to their toxic masculinity.

Men are bad, dontcha know.

[Alberta's Child]

I'm probably in the minority here, but I always saw the BSA as a sign of an unhealthy American culture.

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.

The BSA debacle is a perfect example of a bit of wisdom I learned over the years:

A large organization is much more easily corrupted than a loosely connected group of people.

[I want the USA back]

It was a great institution. Stopped being that when PC took over. It needs to be dissolved and eliminated.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

...our younger son in fifth grade ran to get his copy of Boys Life magazine in the mail only to throw it aside because it was featuring girls, as if photoshopped into Norman Rockwell Scouting art.

Yep, that was my response too. At the time, I thought I could continue as Cubmaster in our pack's little bubble of tradition, but they are pushing the girl thing SO HARD and boys will just reject it. What an incredible mis-read of boys and men by the national BSA. They are through.

[Clay Moore]

I went through Cub Scouts and they kept promising us all sorts of great adventures. Twice we set out for different day events and the lady who pretty much ran the Den couldn’t find it so she just took us to the mall and we played on the Hibitrail while she shopped.

Never thought of asking for directions. They can just hide the Battleship Texas anywhere. (I forget the second one) In the entire Cub program, we never actually went anywhere.

First day of Boy Scouts, same place and same “leader.” We made paper puppets out of grocery store bags.

I never went back.

I would have loved to have had the adventures that others talk of.

[Romulus]

Ruined by addiction to corporate donations and by the board members that came with them. Conservatives need to learn that unrestrained capitalism is a liberal phenomenon. They then need to decide if they really are conservative at all.

[2nd Amendment]

As they say when you get a new fag scout leader “Be Prepared!”

[Bob434]

I will bet that donations to the BSA severely dropped off after they allowed gay scout masters- political correctness has once again destroyed yet another organization-

[lowbridge]

Bump

[upchuck]

Another American tradition trashed by the progressives.

God is not mocked. He always wins eventually.

[VideoDoctor]

The Boy Scouts’ Bankruptcy Is Not Just Financial. It’s Moral

"YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW"

[tbw2]

Conservative Boy Scout Alternatives
https://wehavekids.com/youth-programs/Conservative-Boy-Scout-Alternatives

[Albion Wilde]

"Scouts BSA" ping.

Sad.

[Albion Wilde]

Yet it was corporate executives and members of the U.S. political establishment (including Scouting leaders such as Rex Tillerson and Robert Gates) on the national board who with progressive staff members agreed to surrender to pressure to sexualize the organization in recent years, despite an earlier hard-fought U.S. Supreme Court victory by the organization to preserve membership rules. In admitting openly gay members and leaders, accepting transgenderism, then admitting girls, Scouting turned its back on a cultural background of Christian teaching on sexuality going back millennia.

[Albion Wilde]

Excellent article. Orthodox author.