Posted on 08/17/2023 1:27:45 AM PDT by spirited irish
We can thank Robert Gates when he headed up the BSA for encouraging perversion in the Scouts by admitting them as members.
The obvious solution to the problem is to recruit, more gay scoutmaster’s.
“effing democraps. They sued the BSA to allow open homos in as leaders”
It was a setup from the beginning intended to sow corruption and destroy the organization.
Notice that there is no organizations left from 1963 the boomer generation didn’t destroy. They consumed everything and failed to ensure its survival. They acted as though it was all about their enjoyment and sustainment of the organization was never a personal goal of theirs. Everything from ham radio, Boy Scouts, auto mechanics/hot rodding, NASCAR, Son/Daughters of the American Revolution, everything has been left to rot. No sustainment. Nothing for the boomer generation to be proud of. Some of these organizations existed for over 100 years, just to be consumed and thrown away by the boomers.
The real story isn’t the Boy Scouts. The real story is the gay pedophile rapists who look for any public institution that can be exploited in the quest for young boys.
“ I feel so conflicted about whether I still want it there.l
Why? You earned it.
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More than 130,000,000 boys have been Boy Scouts.
Sadly any organization that does anything With children will attract predators.
Some will get through and some of the abuse will come from the boys themselves.
I don’t know what the allegations of “cover up” are in this documentary, I was a cub master for a few years and the training I received from the Boy Scout organization to recognize and report abuse was quite good.. so at the time I was active (2000s)it was clearly not passively permissive about the dangers of predators.
I can tell you stories about folks we actively had arrested who tried to infiltrated our summer day camps etc.
No boy should ever be abused, however 82,000 represents .06% or less than 1 child per 1700 boys who wen through the program.
The overall national average for sexual abuse of boys in the United States is estimated to be 5.1% - 7.5% (https://uwjoshuacenter.org/how-common-child-sexual-abuse#:~:text=Estimates%20of%20prevalence%20of%20CSA,boys%20in%20the%20United%20States.) or 5-7 kids per 100. So the Boy Scouts rate of sexual abuse is around 1/100th of the national average. So that speaks to a very strong record of preventing child sexual abuse as an organization.
As I said I do not know what this documentary claims in terms of “covering up” the abuse that did happen. I have no doubt that there were almost certainly efforts to keep certain things quiet or minimized over the 113 years the scouts have existed, as things like this were kept quiet and covered up as part of general societal pressures and norms for a great portion of that history. This is to an excuse for it, but context does matter.
The tack record of the organization overall appears to be far far superior to the general population when it comes to child sexual abuse. And I can speak first hand to my experiences with it, that they did not eff around when it came to such things. However at the end of the day it is an organization of men (and I mean men as in mankind) so it will have failings and faults. It is possible that individual BSA councils did knowingly allow things to go in and turn a blind eye just like it could be possible The national council may have as well… but based on the numbers I am hard pressed to see that there was an epidemic of child
Sexual abuse within the scouting org that they allowed to fester.
Is the film a leftist attack on the BSA where they play up the abuse but conveniently omit the gay pedo aspect, kind of like how they attack the Catholic church? Or is it a real documentary that includes the whole picture?
It would be interesting (and disgusting) to know how many of these incidents occurred AFTER they forced the Boy Scouts to allow homosexuals in as leaders. But somehow, I doubt we'll ever get that information.
Jerry Sandusky was married to a woman.
Jerry Sandusky had a Beard.
I left ten years ago when BSA caved to homosexual scoutmasters and decided to help start Trail Life USA.
Ten years later, we are growing every day.
How many Scout Leaders had “Beards”?
OK, not sure how that is relevant. I understand there are men who are married, who otherwise seem to be "straight", that are also child molesters, even homosexually. But my point, or question, is how much did these incidents increase (if they did) once the BSA was forced to accept openly homosexual men to be leaders?
I don’t know
A Beard is a spouse a homosexual has to provide cover/disguise for their homosexuality.
“Trail Life USA”
I knew many guys who took their kids to Trail Life instead.
Sandusky is a gay pedophile.
Being married to an actual woman does not change that.
The people pushing for homosexuals in the Scouts also criticize the Scouts for abuse. They pretend not to get the connection.
Point being, you can’t just go by excluding homosexuals, that’s no guarantee that it will stop the abuse.
Good point. My scout master was married when he was molesting my friends. His wife dumped him and he ended up in state prison where he belonged. Died in disgrace and alone a few years after he got out.
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