Mormons to drop Scouting as part of new global initiative

Deseret News ^ | 5/8/2018 | Tad Walch

[LiberalismDestroys]

The LDS Church is ending its relationship with the Boy Scouts of America. The expiration date for the remarkably robust, 105-year alliance is Dec. 31, 2019, according to a joint statement released Tuesday night by BSA and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The decision by LDS leaders is part of a broader restructuring of the church’s programs for all Mormon children ages 8 to 18.

[Pollster1]

Wow! This is a huge blow to the travesty that “Scouting BSA” (soon to change again to “Scoutish BS”?) has become. I pray that the Boy Scouts of America will return, with a commitment to Morally Straight, and with all-boy membership led by adults in real marriages who are the parents of the boys in the Packs/Troops.

[Fiji Hill]

I was in the Scouts, and made Life (one stage shy of Eagle) and was in the Order of the Arrow.

I also made Life, and my brother made Eagle. I admire those who made it into the Order of the Arrow, so congratulations.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Being an individual. Like clockwork.

[CMSMC]

Royal Rangers?

[cba123]

Congratulations to you as well.

I sure hope, the BSA can re-find some badly needed direction.

The PC crap has sort of taken over there. In my view.

[Kalamata]

That name doesn’t ring a bell...

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

They aren’t “Liberals”. They are “Communists”. They hijacked the term.

[Kalamata]

Am I right in understanding that the Pioneers served both girls and boys? So it was Pioneer Girls and Pioneer Boys groups?

[fish hawk]

LDS takes LSD and goes LGBT. Let us not forget it is a cult to start with.

[Fiji Hill]

If the BSA can’t get on the right track (and I’m not holding my breath), here’s hoping that Trail Life USA or Boys’ Brigade, a Christian group for boys that is based in the UK but has expanded overseas can fill the vacuum.

[MayflowerMadam]

Back in the ‘60s my dad took a new church. The Boy Scouts had used one of the rooms in their church for meetings and Dad booted them out. He could see the handwriting on the wall even then. I don’t know what it was, but it got his attention.

[sockmonkey]

My non Mormon Church discontinued their affiliation with the BSA several years ago, and joined the Trail Life Program. It has been very successful.

[Truthoverpower]

Our little pack is great
No girls yet

[Myrddin]

I was in a PTA sponsored troop. About 50 scouts. Meager finances. We produced a few Eagles each year (myself included). The troops sponsored by Catholic churches were large and well financed. That was still the case by the time my middle son joined a Catholic sponsored troop in 1999. Our LDS ward sponsored troop was a whole 10 boys. No depth of experience or age range. Completely reliant on the scoutmaster to point them in the right direction.

Boy Scouts was supported by the LDS church as the preferred program for young men. It clearly no longer fits that requirement. The church will cobble up new programs consistent across the worldwide membership. No tears on my part. The BSA leadership screwed the pooch.

[PCPOET7]

I predict that the organization formally known as the boy scouts will self destruct in 15 years because those parents who had belonged to it as kids and had loyalty to the organization will not be encouraging there kids to join.

I bet another organization will spring up because the loss of this organization will have created a vacuum and young boys still need to learn to be young men.

[gnarledmaw]

"When I was young, there was a Boy Scout Christian-equivalent but I can’t recall what it was named."

We were Pioneers. I was one. Did some really fun stuff, tough stuff. In 4th(?) grade we were in a competition where we had to build a dogsled. Then we took that sled camping, that is to say unheated tents, in Northern Wisconsin in January(?)for a few days. There were no dogs. We had to pull that sled as fast as we could through deep snow, the path was marked but it wasnt cleared or plowed in any way. It seemed like more than a mile, there were 10 or so stations we had to run into and ply skills like building a fire in the snow and such then off we were running to the next dragging that sled.

My boy scout friends never did anything exciting or challenging like that. They were too busy selling cookies.

The Pioneers still exist but I dont know anything about what they are like now. My girls went to a couple of the girl Pioneer meetings and after a couple of lame meetings of learning how to fold clothes and how to set a table properly they quit.

[gnarledmaw]

Whatever that thing is, that had nothing to do with Pioneers back when. Thats not anything like my girls were in 8(?) years ago either. We had our meetings in the church basement so there was a prayer to start things off and that was about as religious as any of it got.

[Jimmy Valentine]

I curse those people who caved in to devients demands. I am just one of many who benefited greatly from Scouting. I am a better man in every way than I would have been without that experience.

[gnarledmaw]

I think that this is what has become of the group I was part of.

http://lutheranpioneers.org/

[Kalamata]

I think this really sounds like what was at my church when I was growing up, which was Presbyterian. Even though they weren’t Lutheran, they may still have been allowed to have this at a non-Lutheran church....at least I would hope so : )

Thanks for posting the information, gnarledmaw.