I’ll call on that comment.
I’m a 23+ years Scout leader who views them quite unfavorably...my values are solid. My repeated responses to their surveys tell them so...
Theirs have been compromised, they’ve changed. I have only changed in the sense that I view the National, Regional, Council and in some cases, District leadership with complete disdain and utter contempt.
They’ve earned it.
BSA isn’t the end all be all people are making it to be...
Have you seen what Scouting is doing for black urban boys being raised in single parent households or by grandma because their mom is gone/strung-out/dead?
They learn to swim, start fires, handle a knife, shoot a gun safely, camp out, build bridges, learn about a ton of potential careers, and, often for the first time in their lives, discover that they can be self-reliant, that there is a future outside their current environment.
Those black churches and their pastors didn’t abandon Scouting. They get it and despite having limited resources and male support they make Scouting work. They’re heroes and they understand that a positive role model fixes broken boys. Scouting provides that.
A massive problem, and it isn’t unique to FR, is that everyone believes their personal narrative is how things really are.
I am sorry that you view Scouting as unfavorable. You’re just the kind of man those boys need, including the confused kid who thinks he might be homosexual. A clear masculine leader with solid values and a strong sense of self will do more than a self-righteous quitter.
Won’t you please reconsider?