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An Open Letter on Scouting America from Chief Scout Executive Roger Krone
Scouting.org ^ | May 21, 2024 | Roger Krone, Chief Scout Executive, President & CEO

Posted on 05/24/2024 12:51:15 PM PDT by fwdude

Friends –

Growing up in Cincinnati, faith was an integral part of my life. My family, church, school, and troop all provided a community that helped shape who I was and who I would become in life. Even today, the simple, quiet reverence of Scout Vespers moves me. I know many of you who have grown up in Scouting feel the same way.

As a parent, I believe that faith should be an integral part of childhood. In an increasingly complicated world, faith helps young people develop a broader perspective on life. Faith gives them a sense of hope and teaches them acceptance and selflessness in a society that sometimes tells them they aren’t enough. Ultimately, faith is an individual journey which can help define who we are and who we’ll become. The Scouting tradition says that youth are better served when they live lives of reverence and faith. And I believe that is true.

Recently, some have wondered if Scouting’s commitment to faith was still strong. They supposed that by changing our name we might somehow be moving away from our core ideals. I can assure you that nothing could be further from the truth. The Scout Oath and Law begin with Duty to God and conclude with Reverent. This is not an accident. Scouting’s founders knew that faith acts as a type of compass that guides and ultimately makes our families, communities, and our nation stronger.

We are committed to the unchanging ideals of the Scout Oath, Law and our duty to country and our faith. Like the points of a compass, they are constant. They unite us as a movement as we prepare young people for lives of purpose and impact.

I hope you’ll join me as we continue to live these ideals and invite more youth and families to join Scouting. An invitation to a classmate to visit a pack meeting or to come along on a campout could be the first step for someone who needs the fun, faith and adventure that awaits. Along the way, they may just find a new path through Scouting America.

Yours in Scouting,

Roger Krone

Chief Scout Executive, President & CEO


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: boyscouts; homosexualagenda; scoutingamerica
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Smarmy doesn't even begin to describe it.

I guess Krone is desperately, and unsuccessfully, doing damage control.

1 posted on 05/24/2024 12:51:15 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

Is this a Catholic scouting organization?

I’d trust this organization as much as I’d trust a group of boys with Catholic priests.


2 posted on 05/24/2024 12:54:25 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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Poisoning the natural associations & distinctions of & between boys & girls.


3 posted on 05/24/2024 12:55:04 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: fwdude

I dont hate women, Otoh a woman has no place telling a young boy what it is to be a man. So No,The boys dont need moms and sisters along on our camping trips.


4 posted on 05/24/2024 12:56:15 PM PDT by Ikeon (to my haters..😘 thank you, thank you very much. )
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To: Responsibility2nd

Oh. I just learned something.....

What are the Boy Scouts of America called now?
The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history and will become Scouting America. It’s a significant shift as the organization emerges from bankruptcy following a flood of sexual abuse claims and seeks to focus on inclusion.May 9, 2024

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Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.


5 posted on 05/24/2024 12:56:23 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: fwdude

Krone is more concerned about transvestites than boy scouts. He is a degenerate vermin who killed the Boy Scouts of America.


6 posted on 05/24/2024 12:57:12 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Responsibility2nd; All

I think it’s the recently renamed Boy Scouts of America.

Can anyone confirm?

Trail Life seems to be the ticket today.


7 posted on 05/24/2024 12:57:25 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Responsibility2nd

You answered my #7 in #5.


8 posted on 05/24/2024 12:58:24 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: fwdude

As a former Life ranked Scout and proud Father of an Eagle and a former Scouter, Scouting is dead, thanks to Gates and the other spineless bastards who we trusted with our beloved organization and way of life.

ESAD!


9 posted on 05/24/2024 1:00:23 PM PDT by Redleg Duke (“Who is John Galt?”)
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To: fwdude

Harvard, and McDonnell Douglas finance guy in the 90s. Sounds like a fount of bad ideas.


10 posted on 05/24/2024 1:04:04 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Redleg Duke

Tillerson was another one. Now BSA has turned into just another slot for the traveling CEO corporate culture scam class and their interlocking boards of directors.


11 posted on 05/24/2024 1:06:40 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Ikeon

The boys dont need moms and sisters along on our camping trips.
= = =

You mean the girls won’t be cooking, dishwashing, and digging the latrine?


12 posted on 05/24/2024 1:12:23 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT.)
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To: fwdude

His “faith” includes trannies and groomers. Whoever he worships it ain’t God.


13 posted on 05/24/2024 1:22:38 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: fwdude

I lost interest about the time they decided it was okay for a gay man to take my teenage son camping. He got his Eagle and got out.


14 posted on 05/24/2024 1:24:50 PM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: DesertRhino

“Harvard, and McDonnell Douglas finance guy in the 90s. Sounds like a fount of bad ideas.”
Yeah no kidding! MacDac was a really big mess at the time. The merged with Boeing and proceeded to ruin them.


15 posted on 05/24/2024 1:28:12 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: Redleg Duke

The Order of the Arrow, a sub-org honor/service division within scouting, is next on the chopping block I’ll predict. It is untenable from a woke leftist viewpoint.

The depiction of native Indian culture has to be unbearable to the new masters.


16 posted on 05/24/2024 1:28:44 PM PDT by fwdude ( )
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To: fwdude

” I can assure you that nothing could be further from the truth”

And THAT’S why they are inviting trannies, homosexuals, and groomers.

Golf clap...


17 posted on 05/24/2024 1:33:04 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Organic Panic

Not only that:

“Scouting’s founders knew that faith acts as a type of compass that guides and ultimately makes our families, communities, and our nation stronger.”

No one with a single brain cell could come to the conclusion that Scouting’s founders would ever conceive of, much less condone, what is happening in that organization now. Is he insane?!!!


18 posted on 05/24/2024 1:44:40 PM PDT by fwdude ( )
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To: fwdude

Another organization destroyed from within by homosexuals and Marxists as they ‘march through the institutions’.


19 posted on 05/24/2024 2:05:01 PM PDT by MeganC (Ruzzians aren't people. )
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To: Responsibility2nd
What are the Boy Scouts of America called now?

The Wood Sprites?

20 posted on 05/24/2024 2:22:46 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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