Posted on 05/08/2024 8:36:51 AM PDT by ebb tide
After years of turmoil and upheaval resulting in a major identity crisis, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced today that it’s changing its name to Scouting America in order to be “more inclusive.”
The rebranding comes as the troubled organization emerges from bankruptcy after a tsunami of allegations of sexual abuse rocked the once-beloved, venerable institution geared to forming boys into men.
In all, more than 80,000 men came forward to file claims alleging that they were sexually abused while in BSA programs, resulting in a $2.4 billion bankruptcy plan that was approved by a federal judge last year.
The BSA began welcoming homosexual-identifying boys in 2013, and in 2015 halted its ban on gay adult scout masters.
In 2017, the organization announced that girls who identify as “transgender” could enter their boys-only programs. In 2018, the scouts fully opened their membership to girls.
As a result, Scouting America currently serves more than 176,000 girls and young women across all programs, including over 6,000 who have earned the rank of Eagle Scout, according to a press release.
In a video posted to X, CEO Roger Krone delivered a woke-drenched explanation for the change, saying it sends a “really strong message to everyone in America that they can come to this program, they can bring their authentic self, they can be who they are, and they will be welcomed here.”
The announcement met with a quick backlash on social media.
“This is an act of intentional demoralization against normal Americans and the former key constituency of the Boy Scouts: patriotic, hard working American boys and their families,” wrote William Wolfe, executive director of the Center for Baptist Leadership, on X.
“Everything good must be deformed in service of the revolution,” he added.
“The Boy Scouts chose the woke over the church kids that made up the backbone of their membership,” conservative author John Hawkins asserted. “Now they’re as good as dead. They deserve it. The kids didn’t. But the Boy Scouts do.”
“Once again, wokeness ruins everything,” outspoken conservative Hollywood star Matthew Marsden said.
“It started with allowing girls into the Boy Scouts. That’s when I pulled my son out of it,” Marsden noted. “This organization helped equip young boys with the skills to become real men and this move is another attack on them.”
“They will be financially bankrupt in 10 years,” he predicted.
Another X user, tongue firmly in cheek, suggested that the new name, Scouting America, might not be inclusive or woke enough.
“What, not the They/Them scouts?”
Roger Krone. 67 years old. No children? Not married?
Hmmm.
Didn’t the BSA do another name change several years ago?
This is what a collapsed, failed society that is not marrying and having children, using drugs and becoming lawless looks like.
What about it?
The Girl Scouts of America have over 1,700,000 members.
Why can't girls be girls and boys be boys? From birth.
“Leadership sold out the well being of the boys.”
The leadership is no longer brave.
Or clean.
Or reverent.
Yes...changed to “Scouts BSA” in 2019.
I went with my son and his troop to a summer camp in Oklahoma.
2006 I think.
I saw several troops with female scout masters. That bothered me at the time. Boys need to be lead by men. Boys of scouting age are tuning out women, their moms and their teachers.
I had a great scoutmaster. He was a Colonel in the USAF reserves and a high school teacher. Hard as nails, but we learned where our boundries were.
With how the “scouts” are going, all that is gone.
Surprised the Tranny boys haven’t infiltrated the “Girl” Scouts already.
“Didn’t the BSA do another name change several years ago?”
Yes; the organization is skipping around - maybe drifting is a better word - trying to find something that will give them purpose and meaning.
They had purpose and meaning for 100 years and, for whatever reason, decided to dump it.
In 10 years in will be ‘Scouting”
In 20 years it will “Scouting for kids”
In 30 years it will be “Pedos united”
How long before BSA is also a full-blown Marxist indoctrination outfit?
The gaystapo demanded that the BSA accept homo scout leaders. BSA told them no.
The gaystapo went after the corporate donors.
The BSA backed down.
If memory serves me, that is how they fell.
All part of the de-balling of males, to make them more female so they will be more submissive to the government-approved ideology.
The “Girl” Scouts accept trans members. They are no better.
The “Girl” Scouts have been accepting trans members for some time now. They are very encouraging of such depravity.
Couldn’t they have just gone with Non menstruating scouts of America
That's what I remember.
The turning point came when big business got their woke representatives on the organization's board of directors. Once the Trojan horses had control of the board, they had their way.
Many good leaders, staff, parents, troop sponsors, and Scouts fled weakening the organization but the gaystopo didn't care about that. They had what they wanted.
Pedophiles are drawn to organizations that work with children... From sports, to church, to scouts or to any organization that deals with children... Pedophiles will congregate. Changing names won’t change that fact.
It saddens me when I tell the mothers of the scouts why I don’t support their fundraisers when they set up in stores.
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