That and the United Way. Stopped giving to them period, when the funds could not longer be directed to the local Boy Scout Council, by their own rule (later stated because of “exclusionary practices”— really.
Was a member of Executive Bd. of Directors for a BSA Council, and candidly, we had to deal with furtive fruits several times-one arrested for cruising bathrooms at a rural park.
One wonders what this decision, should it happen, would mean for a Scouting leader who has a sexual molestation background upon checking. Is he now OK to be around young boys? I think not.
The purpose of this push by the homo agenda is to destroy the Boy Scouts, and to destroy the ethics, the knowledge (merit badges) and the comradery of normally developing young males who would and have grown up to be leaders of this nation.
Along with this agenda is the agenda of the media to “make as truth” whether Lord Baden-Powell (the founder of Scouting) was homo or bi-sexual, or at minimum repressed homo (because uh, everybody is according to the toots in the media). Everybody in a distinct minority (one composed of a lifestyle choice and/or a mental disorder— I don’t care what the psychiatrists say, cause they are even more screwed up) is demanding the rest of society accept their behaviour as normal, when it really is not.
This is very troubling news. And one more example of the marxist agenda (family breakup, and destruction of morals or religion based morality).
What will it take- the maomau in WH being caught with a live boy... or a dead girl (less likely)when he isn’t out shooting skeet “all the time” (LOL).
Also, an Eagle and past council executive board officer. I read B-P's biography 10 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden_Powell
The Boy-Man: The Life of Lord Baden-Powell, by Tim Jeal, © 1990
Baden-Powell founded the world-wide Scouting movement in the UK during 1907. Tim Jeal's biography of B-P discusses his relationship with his close army friend, Kenneth McLaren.[46]:217–218[47]:48 Jeal concludes that there is no conclusive evidence that this friendship was physical[7]:82. He then examines Baden-Powell's views on women, his appreciation of the male form, his military relationships, and his marriage, indicating that Baden-Powell could have been a repressed homosexual.[7]:103 Jeal's conclusion is shared by some biographers and disputed by others, but not yet examined in any detail by scholars.[48]:6 (The evidence has to be viewed in the context of the times (just like studying the Bible, i.e., Victorian England. It is difficult for modern Americans to appreciate this.)
1. His father was an Anglican minister. He died when B-P was 3 years old. His widowed mother raised him along with 6 siblings. She was a strong woman who was determined that her children would succeed in life.
2. B-P had a very close friendship with Kenneth McLaren in their early army service years. McLaren would later marry and die while relatively young.
3. He had very few, if any, female friends over the course of his life.
4. There is no evidence of him ever having a romantic girl friend.
5. His record of correspondence expressed apathy for the female body.
6. His record of correspondence showed a keen appreciation for the male body.
7. His record of correspondence with the headmaster of his old public school, Charterhouse School, included a request to see, again, a photo album of nude male students.
8. As a child, his sense of dramatics was encouraged which developed into a fondness for acting out skits and plays.
9. He was especially fond of the play/book, “Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up” which appeared in 1904.
10. He married Olave St Clair Soames in 1912 when he was 55 and she was 23 (5 years after he founded the Scouting movement in the UK.) Her father thought B-P led her own in hopes of marriage. The evidence does not indicate B-P behaved improprely. Her father threatened to publically humiliate B-P if he did not marry his daughter.
11. The evidence suggested that their marriage was not romantically passionate.
12. After siring 3 children with Olave, he arranged separate bedrooms for Olave and him in their home for the rest of his life.
13. An account of an incident which happened in the early years of Scouting in the U.K. was included. B-P was pioneering the start of a long term encampment for boys (i.e., summer camp) and training center for adult volunteers. His friend, William McLaren, purchased the Cranshaw estate in Sewardstonebury, Epping Forest, close to Chingford, London. He went on to donate the property to the Scout Association in 1919. This property became known as Gilwell Park and is still in use today. Anyway, there was an incident in the 1920s at Gilwell Park where an adult Scouter sexually molested a youth Scout during an encampment. This problem has plagued Scouting since its earliest days.