[detective]

BSA are having a tough time.

[Kickass Conservative]

Now onto the next Target, the 4H Club.

[SamAdams76]

This is a very sad tale. I was in the Scout program during the 1970s and it was a very positive and rewarding experience. I grew up in the inner city and so the camping trips were my first experience with the woods and nature. Back in those days, camping trips were serious business. We hiked, we blazed trails, we learned how to swim and there was archery and the rifle range. Every scout carried a pocket knife and we learned to whittle wood with it. We had campfires every night and slept under the stars!

Just missed getting Eagle Scout but got plenty of merit badges including orienteering, astronomy, backpacking, wilderness survival, etc. To get my citizenship merit badge I went to interview the mayor of my city. I showed up at City Hall in uniform unannounced and was quickly ushered into the mayor's chamber and was given an audience with him. Those were certainly different times. It would never happen today.

During the 1990s, I put my sons through the program. Cub Scouts, Webelos, the works. But it was different. By then, parents were constantly hovering, mothers even went on camping trips! Pocket knives were verboten and don't even think about archery or rifle range! It wasn't all bad but definitely not the kind of scouting I had as a boy.

[Secret Agent Man]

Good, they are a completely messed up libtard feminist-cowed group. Not the group i was in as a boy.

Everything good is or has been warped and perverted. No one stands up. The ones fed up doingsomething or hitting a personal breaking point is looked at as nuts.

[R_Kangel]

.... Well .... They were forced to accept gays and girls into their ranks ... so shouldn’t they be reformed and called The Inclusive Creative Kids & Youths of America ..... Or ICKY America for short?

[samadams2000]

Shut it down. Wait for the renewal.

[Revel]

So lets see the Boy scouts go gay in order to appease the liberals. Of course the liberals don’t even have any desire to be Scouts because they are having to much fun with their smart phones and constant texting and all of that. Not surprisingly conservatives and moral religious people stop sending there kids to Scouts because the boy scouts now represents a physical and moral threat to their kids.

Is anyone surprised that the boy scouts is dying?

[Phillyred]

Pulled my boys the year the termites allowed homosexual leaders. They and their phony oath were dead to me.

[stanne]

Ijuts

[wizwor]

Well deserved. Like JC Penny, Target, and Dick’s, the BSA has abandoned its values to pander to its enemies. Its enemies could not be won over and its friends left because they had values.

[Broker]

BSA - godless
A D M F

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Re the issue of the BSA allowing homosexual Scoutmasters a few years ago: Some Freeper asked, "Just which part of 'I don't want my son going into the woods overnight with homosexuals' do you not understand?"

I was a Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and Explorer Scout for a total of 9 years. My last BSA Scoutmaster was a pedophile who I avoided being alone with. He was canned after too many parents got tired of such antics as him inviting their sons to sit naked in his sauna with him.

Back then, conventional wisdom was that he was a pervert and the boys were victims. Now it's that he was a victim and they were hatemongers.

[Bringbackthedraft]

20 yrs from now, we’ll call them members of The All-Union Marxist Leninist Young Communist League, known mostly as the Komsomol.

[lurk]

Unexpected.

[jeffersondem]

I hope they go Chapter 7 instead. It’s time to close the book on this organization.

Very poor national leadership in the last 10 years or so.
They destroyed the purpose of the organization.

My son was an Eagle Scout. His two sons will never wear a Boy Scout uniform. That’s already been decided. There are still decent options available.

[Carriage Hill]

Ping to a sad thread.

[Myrddin]

Shortly after I earned my Eagle Scout award in April 1972, there was a shift in the way various ranks and merit badges were earned. I didn't really like what I was seeing. The Scouts in San Diego were under constant attack by the gays over the camp and pool facilities in Balboa Park. It was maintained by the Scouts, open to the public, but the gays didn't like not having access to the Scouts. They chipped away at the national level to get gays into Scouts. The last straw was changing Boy Scouts into Scouts and admitting girls. That lead to the LDS church dropping Scouts as the primary program for boys in the church. A huge part of the membership left with that withdrawal. It was all self-inflicted. The program as it was in 1970 was just fine. Caving in to the gays and girls made it no longer a suitable program.

My middle son joined at a Catholic church sponsored troop in Mira Mesa. I knew some of the leaders from my employment at PacBell. My son moved so fast that he had earned First Class before the troop managed to schedule a Court of Honor. The scoutmaster suggested he should "slow down" and "mature". Huge mistake. He dropped the Scouts. Academics and the high school band took the place of Scout activity. AP classes (scoring 5 on all exams) and finishing with a 4.33 GPA was a fair trade for dumping Scouts. Off to USMC boot camp, service in Kuwait/Iraq, then home. He has degrees in business and physics now and earns an adequate living as a real estate broker. His Class A CDL provides additional income.

[Beowulf9]

Well well well.

[Jmouse007]

Go pervert; get "WOKE", GO BROKE.

Our son became an Eagle Scout before the BSA went down the toilet.

It is a crying disgrace what the BSA has turned into. There is absolutely no way in blazes that we would ever enroll or encourage our sons to be involved in the perverted BSA, or support the gaystapo infiltrated BSA today.

[redangus]

The Left got what they wanted. Force their way in and then engineer it’s destruction. They do it over and over, but people never learn.

[Lajmaiz]

I am an Eagle Scout, earning it in 1979 in a LDS ward. I've been true to the Eagle Challenge to serve others toiling up Scouting's Trail being a Scoutmaster and a Troop Committee Chairman for many years. Three of my four sons are Eagle Scouts with my youngest earning his last January. One of them is pictured in three editions of the Scoutbook.

My Scouting experience as a teenager prepared me to spend two years in the highlands of Guatemala serving a mission. I wore hiking boots, slept on a straw mat, took cold showers, administered first aid, cooked on a camping stove and using a Coleman lantern for light. I highly value what I learned from Scouting.

With the LDS Church discontinuing Scouting, the other changes and my youngest son an Eagle, my heart is not in it any more. I have doubts about the new program the LDS Church wants to implement.

Liberals ruin everything that is wholesome and good.