“IIRC, Limbaugh brought this up and talked about how the gay community sued and forced their way in. Lo and behold, all the problems started.”
Nope. The homos sued and lost. BSA won at the Supreme Court.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_v._Dale
With this win in their belt they were seduced by pop culture and corporate money and surrendered all that they had won. The BSA Board did this all by theirselves.
10-4
Over 100 years down the toilet.
All the talk about kids not being able to do certain things, it’d be nice to see someone come up with an alternative.
I bet there are enough parents out there with girls that would love to get them into something that teaches them more than selling cookies(which I’m a complete sucker for). Almost like a Valkyrie, where they learn some legit sh*t. I’m thinking there’d be some participation for that.
As for the guys, get a bunch of retired SERE instructors, mechanics, tradesman, cops, fireman, and start teaching them some legit stuff.
A guy I knew in basic training was an Eagle Scout. His scout master guy was a retired Green Beret. He would tell me that when the other kids were learning how to rub two sticks together, his guy was teaching them how to rappel and how to catch/field dress rabbits.
When the BSA fought to keep the perverts out, they won. When they caved, they lost everything—most especially the respect and trust of parents of boys. Why this organization is still in existence is a mystery to me.
I was only in the Scouts for about three years, over in Subic as a kid and then when I moved back the US.
I valued that experience highly. I was no great Scout. But they did teach you various things, and it was something that DID allow you to expand your horizons.
Besides, I am one who sees the value in letting boys be boys, with all the good and the bad, because we all have that in us.
There is indeed a benefit to allowing boys to do things without having girls around. It changes the dynamic. And I had (and have) zero problem with girls having their things, doing the things THEY want to do with no boys around.
And back when I was a Scout, there was no undercurrent of homosexual predators. I know they existed, but it wasn’t even on the radar of any kid I knew in Scouting. It is criminal what they did to the Boy Scouts.
Masculinity is definitely something the Left has been trying to rip out of boys and men. I just picked up a book the other day “The War Against Boys” but haven’t begun to read it yet.