I oppose rampant sexualization of all children’s organizations
and entertainment (checked out ABC Family’s new show “The Fosters” with 2 women caressing each other in bed?)
and schools public AND private
I choose to stay and take a stand, lead a morally straight troop as long as I can with the support of like minded parents, and not pack my tent and surrender all the Scouts have built and stand for, to a few radicals and an out of touch paid leadership of agenda driven professional fundraising pandering idiots
We are the parents and we are volunteers who lead the troops, the paid staff needs us, we don’t need them
Mr Feeley starts a troop with his husband, my kid not in that troop. Harry Horndog or Sally Slut joins the troop and hits on another kid and they are out for misbehavior
Look around... fewer and fewer places to run and hide
You think your kids’ sports clubs, school clubs, and church youth ministries are pure? Look harder, you face the same risks and you have to make the same choices
someone’s got to take a stand soon or you will all run out of places.
You're not taking a stand if you stay. You're just telling the radicals and agenda driven professional fundraising pandering idiots that what they did is ok.
(These are the thoughts of a one-time Boy Scout and the father of two Eagle Scouts.)
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I agree with you 100%.
That is why, as a former scout myself, I say either the Boy Scouts reverses this bone-headed screwup, immediately.
Or an organization is found to replace the Boy Scouts.
It is that simple.
Every family needs to make its own choice. Ours was to leave scouting.
Myself - Scoutmaster
Wife - Committee member
2 sons - Life and Star
I will not be associated with an organization that promotes homosexuality as normal.
This is not the last change. Adult homosexuals will be next. There will be changes to merit badges, most specifically the Family Life badge, which is Eagle required and centered around the old definition of the nuclear family. The homosexual activists will not let that stand. They will demand it change to include the ‘new normal’ of homosexuality and families. BSA will be teaching every Eagle that homosexuality is normal.
Baden Powell is weeping.
The emotional “investment” that many folks have in Scouting is understandable. Scouting’s roots run very deep in some circles and locations because of its long and storied history.
But Scouting sealed its fate about 13 years ago when they rolled out Wood Badge for the 21st Century. Diversity is a prime component of the course and is a mandatory component of one’s “ticket” in order to earn your beads. I earned my beads in ‘93 and staffed 2 courses between ‘07 and ‘09. Diversity is a component of PC and PC is cultural marxism.
However, endorsing National by your continued participation only confirms to them that they were “right”. Only the cranks, bigots, haters and whiners would leave Scouting and the “reasonable”, “diverse” and “accepting” ones would continue.
For me, it’s not so much about the queers, they can be dealt with any number of creative ways. It’s about National’s deliberate and deceitful betrayal to the program. They welcomed the corporate scum into their circle and the influence the corporate scum wielded was/is substantial. At almost every turn, the BSA has its hands out asking for more $$.
As an anecdotal example; Our Council has been neglecting and outright rejecting the Scouts and Scouters access to camps so that outside groups can pay more $$ to use them. In addition, our Council did not permit the names of our delegates to be known so that they could be petitioned regarding the so-called sham of a “vote”.
How does National claim they “listened” to the rank and file who went 60%+ against the policy change and then you get 60%+ of the delegates to “vote” for the change? I’ll posit this, Councils stacked the decks to ensure some illusion of legitimacy was given to this process.
As far as I am concerned, the BSA is no longer trustworthy, I have lost complete confidence in the leadership at almost all levels of Scouting with the exception of my District. They have lost sight of the purpose, vision and aims of Scouting.
As for me, I’m out. I have already notified National and Council. Summer of 2013 only because parents and Scouts asked me to hang on long enough for their boys to earn their Eagle and get through either summer camp or Philmont.
I will find other ways to teach young boys and teens how to become good men. I’ll use all of my resources to do so, up to and including many of the Scouting materials. Just sanitize it a bit.
A shiny badge ain’t the end all be all some folks think it is. It’s about the young man who made that journey. That journey can be traveled many different ways.
Best,
SZ