The lesson is obvious, learned by everyone, the good guys and the bad, and that is: PC, socialist-atheist, militant gay, and feminist influences are absolutely inconsistent with and destructive to the supremely good work of the Scouts, and the innocence of the boys who put on the uniform.
What the Scouts have accomplished over the last century can never be forgotten or diminished.
The evil infiltrators who attempted to kill the BSA may have rendered its current financial and legal structure prone to bankruptcy, but, another BSA will come out of the ashes. And a lot of good will come from it.
They can and will channel Baden-Powell, Churchill and Kipling, and Washington, Jefferson, TR, and many others, and start over anew.
They will soon get on with it, if I know the Scouts and Alumni as I do... they are probably working on it right now.
And this time, stronger than before, with no allowances for PC, gays, or SJW feminists.
On Steyn's website right now is coincidentally this 'Song of the Week':
Will you remember the famous men/ Who had to fall to rise again?/ So take a big breath/ Pick yourself up/ Dust yourself off/ And start all over again...
All we have to do to win a great victory over these heathen Rats, in this battle and in all the hundreds of others, is to never, ever, ever, give up. And never get discouraged.
but, another BSA will come out of the ashes. And a lot of good will come from it.
They can and will channel Baden-Powell, Churchill and Kipling, and Washington, Jefferson, TR, and many others, and start over anew.
They will soon get on with it, if I know the Scouts and Alumni as I do... they are probably working on it right now.
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There is no legal room for this to happen in the US. We have been so crippled by our laws promulgated by leftist fascists that there is no going back. But I can see intelligent Asians and Eastern Europeans keeping what is good from this history and applying it to their own cultures.
However, they have learned in more ways than we, and will do their best to avoid the US social extremism, at least in the next 100 years.
What the BSA should have done twenty years ago was acknowledged the decline in the types of boys (and parents) that wanted to be in traditional scouting and managed that decline while still upholding standards. Instead, they diluted any principle and went for the "big tent" option desperately trying to boost numbers and please corporate donors. What a mess. Glad I am done this year. My sons will never wear another BSA uniform.
There's a Trail Life troop in town. Time to check it out.