I was a Scout in Nashville, Tennessee back in the late 1960s. My troop was made up of mostly working class boys from the neighborhoods around Belmont Methodist Church which was home to the troop. Overall I would say that my experience with that Troop was not what it should have been. We had no problems with faggots but still the woodscraft taught was at a poor level and the secular morality was on the trendy side. I take my own boys, backpacking, shooting, and foraging. I will not allow my Scout-age son to join a troop based upon what I know of the BSA and its direction.
