Boy Scouts of America may declare bankruptcy

The Boy Scouts of America is mulling declaring bankruptcy amid flagging membership and an avalanche of costly sex abuse allegations, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Leaders have hired Chicago law firm Sidley Austin for help in a potential Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, sources told the outlet.

The organization has been fending off lawsuits over alleged abuse, including one filed by four former scouts who called the club a “pedophile magnet” and alleged that they were molested by scoutmaster Waldron Ackerman between 1974 and 1976.

The organization has reportedly lost two-thirds of its members — some 4 million boys — since the 1970s.

Do they have an LGBTQ badge yet?

Keep up with the times, it is LGBTQQIA2

Back to women in BSA, back in the 80's I missed a meeting and was voted in the assistant Cub Master. BECAUSE there was no one else. Ended up Cub master. not because I really wanted it but because there was no one else.

Yes, I went camping with them. So did my hubby. We also had problems with 2 deep leadership. I was determined to have that for all the boys. So I was involved.

I also do not buy girl scout cookies any more, or the BSA popcorn. But when I did I would ask the girl (NOT THE MOM) what the badges stood for. It was horrible.

This thread is very defeatist and distinctly un-Boy-Scout-like in its gloom and doom.

The lesson is obvious, learned by everyone, the good guys and the bad, and that is: PC, socialist-atheist, militant gay, and feminist influences are absolutely inconsistent with and destructive to the supremely good work of the Scouts, and the innocence of the boys who put on the uniform.

What the Scouts have accomplished over the last century can never be forgotten or diminished.

The evil infiltrators who attempted to kill the BSA may have rendered its current financial and legal structure prone to bankruptcy, but, another BSA will come out of the ashes. And a lot of good will come from it.

They can and will channel Baden-Powell, Churchill and Kipling, and Washington, Jefferson, TR, and many others, and start over anew.

They will soon get on with it, if I know the Scouts and Alumni as I do... they are probably working on it right now.

And this time, stronger than before, with no allowances for PC, gays, or SJW feminists.

On Steyn's website right now is coincidentally this 'Song of the Week':

Will you remember the famous men/ Who had to fall to rise again?/ So take a big breath/ Pick yourself up/ Dust yourself off/ And start all over again...

All we have to do to win a great victory over these heathen Rats, in this battle and in all the hundreds of others, is to never, ever, ever, give up. And never get discouraged.

but, another BSA will come out of the ashes. And a lot of good will come from it.

They can and will channel Baden-Powell, Churchill and Kipling, and Washington, Jefferson, TR, and many others, and start over anew.

They will soon get on with it, if I know the Scouts and Alumni as I do... they are probably working on it right now.

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There is no legal room for this to happen in the US. We have been so crippled by our laws promulgated by leftist fascists that there is no going back. But I can see intelligent Asians and Eastern Europeans keeping what is good from this history and applying it to their own cultures.

However, they have learned in more ways than we, and will do their best to avoid the US social extremism, at least in the next 100 years.

I'm a Cubmaster in my fifth and final year with scouting. Our Church sponsors the pack and the BSA has allowed for churches to set their own policies with regard to scouts we allow in and who we allow allow to lead. I had hoped we could be an island of tradition within scouting, but the BSA has so beclowned itself with recent decisions that they have ruined their brand. Girls in scouting was the last straw for me; we could declare ourselves a boy-only pack but all the manuals, district, and council camping properties would be mixed gender. I thought scouting was a hard-sell before. There's no way I will be able to keep Webelos in the program now unless, frankly, they are oddballs without other options.

What the BSA should have done twenty years ago was acknowledged the decline in the types of boys (and parents) that wanted to be in traditional scouting and managed that decline while still upholding standards. Instead, they diluted any principle and went for the "big tent" option desperately trying to boost numbers and please corporate donors. What a mess. Glad I am done this year. My sons will never wear another BSA uniform.

There's a Trail Life troop in town. Time to check it out.

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