Posted on 07/07/2021 9:07:14 AM PDT by MJacks4
Scouting isn’t what it used to be.
Gray Ranks
“Gray Ranks” (Polish: Szare Szeregi) was a codename for the underground paramilitary Polish Scouting Association (Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego) during World War II.
The wartime organisation was created on 27 September 1939, actively resisted and fought German occupation in Warsaw until 18 January 1945, and contributed to the resistance operations of the Polish Underground State. Some of its members (Grupy Szturmowe – Assault Groups) were among the Home Army’s best-trained troops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Ranks
Hadn’t membership previously “cratered” in the face of sodomy?
It is terrible that scouting committed suicide.
It might as well be dumped, since it is a dead letter. It is ignored in practice, so continuing to mouth the words just sets an example of hypocrisy.
Good. I hate the people who destroyed Scouting. Rotting soulless garbage.
20 + years ago, our Town had 3 Boy Scout troops - One sponsored by the American Legion, another Troop Sponsored by the local Lions club and the third troop sponsored by the Lutheran Church. All of the troops were active and had a lot of Boys involved.
Today we have barely one troop with only 8 Scouts, sponsored by the Lions Club - and that is close to folding.
I’m a former scoutmaster, who helped 14 boys attain the rank of Eagle Scout. I’m an Eagle, as are my son and brother. I worked for the Boy Scouts, professionally, in the 1970’s, as a district scout executive. The organization is a sad, hollow caricature of what it was when I and my son were growing up. My three grandsons are not likely to become Boy Scouts, which is regrettable (to me) but wisely reasonable, considering the lack of ethics and morals in the current organization, as a whole.
Liberalism destroys everything it touches.
The BSA was once a great American institution. Ruined by liberalism.
Trumps worthless first Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made that call.
Thanks for info.
That always got me, that the Boy Scouts won in court. Yet after that hard fought court case, they decided to allow gay leaders anyway.
The membership decline shows a certain number of parents are voting with their feet, so to speak, and avoiding having their sons in this new version of Boy Scouts. Another issue could well be now that girls are allowed in the Boy Scouts. Some people seem to have a hard time with the concept, that there should be organizations for boys only, and others for girls only.
“My three grandsons are not likely to become Boy Scouts, which is regrettable (to me) but wisely reasonable, considering the lack of ethics and morals in the current organization, as a whole.”
If your feelings are the same about the current corrupted US military are similar, I’d entirely support you, and I proudly served stateside as an Army 01 and 02 in 1968 and 1069. I’m totally ashamed of what the current, “woke,” homosexualized military has become.
OOPs, 1969, not 1069.
“Robert Gates and Rex Tillerson must be proud of themselves for destroying the BSA.”
America is falling because the Republicans we elect cave to the left on every issue. Gates and Tillerson are no different than the Bush family, the Rockefeller’s, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Kevin McCarthy, Linsday Graham, John McCain, and most GOP elected officials. Anyone who believes voting GOP in the 2022 elections will save the republic, should look at the Boy Scouts.
These cases go back to BEFORE the gay leaders were legitimized. This situation is literally destroying the organization and they decided to make it official policy anyway. Because they all care more about getting plaudits from the left than the institution of the Boy Scouts.
It’s sad.
Yeah, that’d put you in the start of the first Crusades.
One of the Connecticut state park was an former Boy Scout camp another scout camp got sold to the Pequot tribe, since it was a spiritual place for them.
I’m an old fart with only 2/3 of a farter, but that’s still rather a bit much.
When I put my own boys through it during the late 1990s - early 2000s, it was not the same Scouts I went through. For one, pocket knives were strictly prohibited. Every activity was dumbed down and made "super safe" - parents were encouraged or even mandated to chaperone their sons on outside activities, including camping. Which was mostly the moms because the dads typically had to be at work.
After a couple years, my sons got bored with the whole experience and I pulled them out. I don't blame them one bit.
As an aside, my sister was in the Girl Scout program during the 1970s and that was a good experience for her as well. Even they did the whole camping thing - it wasn't just making brownies and selling cookies, that's for sure. I never understood why being a girl scout had such a stigma to it later on to the point where they rolled them into the boy scouts. Those girls scouts of the 1970s would outperform the typical boys of today in just about any outdoor activity.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.