Scouting is about molding boys into Men of character... Cub Scouts = manhood 101
Boy Scouts = manhood 102
Scouting covers extremely broad areas... Scouting is different things to different kids, and its large and broad enough that they can explore all sorts of things and find the things they love and enjoy and also see and experience things outside their normal sphere.
Scouting has hardly gone PC... if it had, I know I certainly could not be a leader in it.
Now Girl Scouts on the other hand have completely betrayed their original mandate and now is basically run by a bunch of dykes and feminists at the highest levels that don't care a lick about raising women of character, just pushing political correct nonsense. Fortunately most local leaders are still reasonably sane, but the natioinal organization is doing its best to drive all semblence of traditional values out of the organization.
Ham,
Manhood 101 and Manhood 102. I use that in our recruiting flyers for our Pack and Troop.
Must be effective, we signed up 15 or so new Scouts last night. Our Pack/Troop is 100% Homeschooled, so our recuitment pool is a little smaller than normal. The new parents seemed to be highly engaged and excited about Scouting. I'm really geeked myself about this year.
As for the Boy Scouts, I very much appreciated your comments. Our son is long out of scouts, out of the army, and working hard.
The poster who suggested I was drunk is a very poor example of what I hope is not a scout leader. That would be a shame.
Broadening the experiences of young boys is a worthy goal and I certainly approve. (but what do I know)