Posted on 02/25/2020 5:23:14 AM PST by Kaslin
As a Life Scout, Father of an Eagle Scout, and former Scouter and Scoutmaster, I cut my ties with the BSA in 2013 with great sorrow and anger.
Now, I am trying to associate with Trail Life. There has to be a special place in Hell for Gates, Tillerson and the rest of the adults who betrayed such a noble organization!
Both of my sons are Eagle Scouts, in fact, my youngest son’s Eagle Scout “Court of Honor” is just around the corner ! It was a great program, our troop was very big, over 100 Scouts (it’s true). Scouting was a terrific program.
In truth, these sexual abuse cases date “way back” and happened before all this LGBT nonsense. That being said, it would have been ruined by them a thousand times faster. Perhaps this is a blessing in disguise. Now people know there are predictors at the gate because of the old cases now being brought to light. Smart people will exit the scouting program.
LBGT and Transgender Agenda’s have no business is scouts, it’s merely a prelude to a hunting ground for them.
We tried to tell them they were being played by the Gay Mafia.
Religious org in the USA need to open their eyes as they are next to be destroyed by the Gay Mafia.
Back in the 90s, Soros said he would bring down the USA. He is succeeding. Makes me very sad. I am glad to hear that there is an American Heritage Girls organization. I stopped buying Girl Scout cookies when I realized that the Leftist influence had infected them. And I sold Girl Scout cookies for 50 cents a box. It was a lifetime ago, but it was when the GSA was a good and moral organization.
Bringing down every moral and patriotic organization since the 90s. Soros is evil.
Yeah, I was a Boy Scout when boys still knew which bathroom to use. Pretty Sad.
Just before I read this excellent piece, I saw an ad on Fox announcing the bankruptcy of the Scouts and a class action lawsuit for molestation. It was on the same level as the cancerous weed killer Roundup. If you were involved in criminal sexual activity against you, call the 800 number. The bankruptcy will be a very expensive consequence.
"God Bless America" Royalties Donated to Scouting Organizations-Truth! But Inaccurate Details!
EXCERPT: God Bless America was originally introduced and performed live on Armistice Day, November 11, 1938 by Kate Smith on her radio program. It became an immediate hit resulting in the popular demand for the sheet music. Afterwards, Berlin established the God Bless America Fund where proceeds from royalties were donated to the Boy and Girl Scouts of America.
Trail Life USA Vision, Mission, Oath and Motto:
Our vision is to be the premier national character development organization for young men which produces godly and responsible husbands, fathers, and citizens.
Our Mission is to guide generations of courageous young men to honor God, lead with integrity, serve others, and experience outdoor adventure.
Motto
Walk Worthy
Colossians 1:10
that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Oath
On my honor,
I will do my best
To serve God and my country;
To respect authority;
To be a good steward of creation; And to treat others
as I want to be treated
I left BSA in 2013 and joined Trail Life USA. Since then, I’ve met an incredible number of godly men who seek to impart their lives into the young men under their care. These men live the vision, mission, oath and motto every day and are guiding and encouraging the Trailmen to do the same.
One of the core values of Trail Life is Volunteer Driven. Their professional staff numbers about 20 people, many who have become personal friends. Their dedication to their mission and the Lord is stunning.
If you’re looking for a strong outdoor program with a strong Christian backbone as a place for your son, or a place to serve, check out traillifeusa.com.
The author also mentioned American Heritage Girls. My daughter is a troop leader where she lives and it’s a great program. I know Patti Garibay, the founder and her heart for girls and their development is awesome.
“they let in girls 10 months later.”
And that is the least of their problems. At least they’re GIRLS, not weirdoes.
Um, Irving?
Doesn’t anyone try something besides Trail Life (which I think is a poor name)?
I think we tried that for a night with our son because I’m getting sick of hearing all the caving with “BS”.
What about the “boy-led” aspect from BS? They didn’t have that, as I recall. Not that I really mind, but what is the take on that adult-led-only?
Another great American institution destroyed by the left.
Nope.
Another great American institution abandoned by the right.
{cue helicopters leaving Saigon pix}
A very sad epitaph. The program was instrumental as an institution, revered. Taught legions of young men. My mom was a cub scout. This is a horrible, sad end to an American institution. What’s next?
I have always assumed that the leaders were bribed to betray BSA - that or extortion. I am disgusted beyond words that the organization allowed this to happen. When you find yourself facing pure evil (and I’ve been there), it can be frightening, but real men have a responsibility to stand up and protect children even when that is difficult or dangerous.
1 guy, I forget his name, is the person who destroyed the scouts, he personally pushed for the homosexual nonsense... i have no idea why this moron was ever let on the executive leadership committee, but he definitely single handedly destroyed the organization.
Having experienced first-hand, (even now), the very real and transformative cultural Marxist transition in the DOD, and the related, forced, and transformative, adult “mind grooming” and normalization, of all things LGBTQ in the DOD, IC, and SOS, it is very hard for me (and nearly everyine I know), to separate our FedGov experience, (which went into renewed overdrive beginning in Clinton’s first term), to what we have seen with the “BS’ and “GS”.
Policy is never abstract. Left-wing policy is never abstract at all. There is always a goal or “target”, and pathology (with “safeties”), been if unidentified.
Does not matter if we are looking at SOVIET/CIS/RUSFed goals, or if we are looking at standing left-wing goals within our own U.S. IC and FedGov.
I believe there is a strong eerily familiar precedent, of what we are witnessing in front of our eyes right now.
This is not a revisionists, PC, piece of highly relevant history, and may well be a snap-shot of where this viral American leftist strain desires us to go. And maybe very soon...
Really good read. Actually, it a “must read”.
Dare anyone to read this —
https://modernhistoryproject.org/mhp?Article=PinkSwastika
My parents were my scout leaders and I was my boys' scout leader. My whole family as a boy and as an adult, were deeply involved in the scouting movement. My poor parents are rolling over in their graves over this takedown of a once proud organization they committed years to serving.
Not willing to accept the court cases that allowed the Scouts to keep their moral standards, the Left in this country had done what they have always done and that is to destroy a once proud organization, grounded in instilling in boys the character and behavior to grow into morally strong men and good citizens.
I hate the liberals for their destruction of everything good in our culture and society. I really do hate them.
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