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Boy Scouts Will Accept Girls, in Bid to ‘Shape the Next Generation of Leaders’
New York Times ^ | October 11, 2017 | NIRAJ CHOKSHI

Posted on 10/11/2017 3:24:03 PM PDT by Blue House Sue

The Boy Scouts of America announced plans on Wednesday to accept girls, marking a historic shift for the century-old organization.

The group cited the desire to nurture female leaders as a reason for the decision, pitting it against the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., which operates under a similar mission.

“We strive to bring what our organization does best — developing character and leadership for young people — to as many families and youth as possible as we help shape the next generation of leaders,” said Michael Surbaugh, the group’s chief scout executive.

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They cannot be the Boy Scouts if they allow girls to join.
1 posted on 10/11/2017 3:24:03 PM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: Blue House Sue

Another halfassed step into oblivion for the BSA.


2 posted on 10/11/2017 3:25:21 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Blue House Sue

If only there were a similar organization for girls...


3 posted on 10/11/2017 3:25:55 PM PDT by thesharkboy (Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
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To: Blue House Sue
Perhaps they're starting a new generation here?

deGeneration X

4 posted on 10/11/2017 3:26:15 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: Blue House Sue

What’s the point? How can it be the boy scouts if they allow girls?

What about the girl scouts?

Why is an organization dedicated to development of boys and young men, feeling the need to empower females?


5 posted on 10/11/2017 3:29:34 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Blue House Sue

Cuck Scouts.

Gutless twits.


6 posted on 10/11/2017 3:29:45 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Blue House Sue

He puts the “BS” in BSA.


7 posted on 10/11/2017 3:30:31 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Blue House Sue

Wasn’t Rex Tillerson a key player in the transformation of Scouting into a PC madhouse?


8 posted on 10/11/2017 3:31:45 PM PDT by madprof98
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9 posted on 10/11/2017 3:32:35 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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If only there were a similar organization for girls...

We could call it "The Girl Scouts"

10 posted on 10/11/2017 3:33:30 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: Vaquero
Another halfassed step into oblivion for the BSA.

Another? How about the FINAL?

11 posted on 10/11/2017 3:33:54 PM PDT by fwdude (The perverted left-bound train is always accusing the train station of "moving right.")
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To: Blue House Sue

By the time I exit this mortal coil, the Scouts will be history.

5.56mm


12 posted on 10/11/2017 3:35:33 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: KC_Lion

Good idea. Send that in...

“:^)


13 posted on 10/11/2017 3:35:41 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: Blue House Sue

They’re trying to stop the hemorrhaging from the past several awful, unscout-like decisions. Ironically, they will just bleed out even faster now.


14 posted on 10/11/2017 3:36:04 PM PDT by fwdude (The perverted left-bound train is always accusing the train station of "moving right.")
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To: Blue House Sue
Boys should learn to be boys and men, Girls should learn to be girls and women.

Later in life thery can put the two plus two together God's way.


This is a dumb LBGTGwhatever victory.

stupid boy scouts.

15 posted on 10/11/2017 3:36:51 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Blue House Sue
New patches:
16 posted on 10/11/2017 3:37:50 PM PDT by DannyTN
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“The Boy Scouts of America announced plans on Wednesday to accept girls ...”

Not even George Orwell at his most prophetic; even if on opium, heroin, cocaine, crack or meth, would have dared predict this.


17 posted on 10/11/2017 3:37:55 PM PDT by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Ave.)
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To: Blue House Sue

Today isn’t April 1st, right?


18 posted on 10/11/2017 3:38:52 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: M Kehoe

Scouts out, cavalry ho’s.


19 posted on 10/11/2017 3:38:56 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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To: Blue House Sue

I see the Boy Scouts want to be the next NFL.


20 posted on 10/11/2017 3:39:45 PM PDT by Pravious
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