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Looming wave of sex abuse cases poses threat to Boy Scouts of America
WJLA ^ | Apr 24, 2019 | David Crary

Posted on 04/24/2019 6:03:19 AM PDT by bgill

The lawyers’ ads on the internet aggressively seeking clients to file sexual abuse lawsuits give a taste of what lies ahead this year for the Boy Scouts of America: potentially the most fateful chapter in its 109-year history.

Sexual abuse settlements have already strained the Boy Scouts’ finances to the point where the organization is exploring “all available options,” including Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But now the financial threats have intensified.

The reason: States have been moving in recent months to adjust their statute-of-limitations laws so that victims of long-ago sexual abuse can sue for damages. New York state has passed a law that will allow such lawsuits starting in August. A similar bill in New Jersey has reached the governor’s desk. Bills also are pending in Pennsylvania and California.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: boyscouts; bsa; molestation; scouts; scoutsusa
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To: bgill

I used to donate monthly, for decades.

Then I realized with the direction the leadership was going,

I’d just be helping them to pay the settlements that were sure to come.


21 posted on 04/24/2019 6:23:10 AM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: bgill

My brother told me that his scout leader in the 70’s was messing with some of the boys in his troop. He found that out after the fact. Luckily for him, he was over 6 feet in junior high and a tough dude. I guess the leader figured my brother was not easy prey. Bless and protect the victims he did get.

I hate pedophiles.


22 posted on 04/24/2019 6:25:22 AM PDT by BelleAl (Proud to be a member of the party of NO! NO more deficit spending and government control!)
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To: PeterPrinciple

This stuff goes back to the forties, and there was a whole lot of it in the sixties and seventies.

There will now be even more of it.


23 posted on 04/24/2019 6:28:32 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: bgill

Pedophiles gonna pedophile.

Sad to note what has happened to what I once enjoyed.


24 posted on 04/24/2019 6:28:39 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: G Larry

Anecdotal evidence from some elder male relatives long dead leads me to believe that scouting has long been a bastion of queerness. I did the whole enchilada from cub scout to explorer. Cubs was fine because mothers were the unit leaders. Boy scouts was a bit different because some of the scoutmasters were not married with sons in the troop and adult single male assistants were a red flag. By the time explorers rolled around, most of us were smoking and drinking and driving and would beat the snot out of any faggots that would try to intervene.


25 posted on 04/24/2019 6:29:04 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: JonPreston

Another reason to destroy the Boy Scouts is it taught you to be resourceful and do things yourself and survive w/o help. Another word for that was it taught Freedom. Can’t have that ya know. Need you to be dependent.


26 posted on 04/24/2019 6:29:12 AM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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To: Pontiac

Good point.


27 posted on 04/24/2019 6:30:23 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: PeterPrinciple
They are forced to allow homosexuals and then when something happens sue them for it.

Some of these cases apparently go back into the 1940's. Long before they knowingly took homosexuals.


28 posted on 04/24/2019 6:34:31 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: bgill

Has membership in the Scouts decreased or increased recently?


29 posted on 04/24/2019 6:41:13 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The Trump Revolution is the Resistance to the Decadence of Western Civilization.)
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To: bgill

The NAMBLA Scouts have been accepted by society. What have they to fear???


30 posted on 04/24/2019 6:43:22 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: bgill

The vile, capitalistic, sexist, Boy Scouts MUST be replaced with an organization of the proletariat, the Young Pioneers!

No, she never said that, but I suspect such thoughts bounce around the inside of that rather empty skill.

31 posted on 04/24/2019 7:01:26 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Yep. I used to work for a gay scout master. I wonder if he’s on the list.


32 posted on 04/24/2019 7:01:31 AM PDT by null and void (The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
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To: rlmorel
I used to be a Boy Scout. I was not a good Boy Scout, but for at least four years it was part of my life, and I appreciated what I learned from it, and the experiences that I had.

Ditto.

I was also in the first co-ed explorer post.

33 posted on 04/24/2019 7:03:21 AM PDT by null and void (The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
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To: bgill

The left destroyed another once-great American institution.


34 posted on 04/24/2019 7:07:48 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: bgill

Democrats turned the Boy Scout into a holding tank for young boy’s for Queer vultures!!!


35 posted on 04/24/2019 7:24:40 AM PDT by ontap
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To: null and void

I don’t have as much of an issue with co-ed types such as the Explorers, and I did think about taking that step. That said, I have always thought there was value in a boys-only organization, since anyone who pays attention knows that boys behave much differently when girls are around, and not always in a good and constructive way.

Plus, many young boys feel awkward around girls longer than the reverse is true, I think.

That is biology at play.


36 posted on 04/24/2019 7:24:52 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
“They are forced to allow homosexuals and then when something happens sue them for it.”

Reminds me of the Catholic church.

As a society, perhaps we can agree that Pedophilia is wrong. I don't just mean that it is wrong for Republicans, or the Boy Scouts, a view that even liberals hold, but wrong for everybody. Next, what does one think about the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA)? Isn't that pedophile advocacy? Can we get bipartisan denunciation of NAMBLA? Just for fun, maybe the Trump and the GOP should ask Democrats to join them in denouncing NAMBLA.

37 posted on 04/24/2019 7:48:07 AM PDT by ChessExpert (NAFTA - Not A Free Trade Agreement)
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To: rlmorel

The left is trying very diligently to destroy human nature.

It’s a religious quest to create The New Soviet Man, a creature more akin to a hive dwelling insect than a human.

Communism is for insects ~ Robert Heinlein, paraphrased.


38 posted on 04/24/2019 7:53:56 AM PDT by null and void (The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
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To: rlmorel
Never mind it was a constructive organization that taught many life skills to boys that would serve them and society well as they grew into men.

Yes, the Boy Scouts of America was such an entity. That's WHY the left destroyed it.

39 posted on 04/24/2019 7:57:24 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: null and void
In what was (for me) perhaps the most influential political book I have ever read (Whittaker Chambers' Witness) that was one of the key facts of the book:

"It [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods." It is the great alternative faith of mankind.

Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision. Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man's relationship to God.

The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God.

It is the vision of man's mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world. It is the vision of man's liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man's destiny and reorganizing man's life and the world. It is the vision of man, once more the central figure of the Creation, not because God made man in his image, but because man's mind makes him the most intelligent of the animals.

Copernicus and his successors displaced man as the central fact of the universe by proving that the earth was not the central star of the universe. Communism restores man to his sovereignty by the simple method of denying God."

40 posted on 04/24/2019 8:22:34 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
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