Logic does not work on liberals. It is the defining characteristic.
Totally fair question. Might be better asked should an adolescent spend that private, intimate time with an adult who finds him or her sexually attractive?
Why should an 18 year old be sharing a tent with a 13 year old, isn’t that a bit weird anyway? Just because someone hasn’t come out as gay doesn’t mean they aren’t attracted to younger boys.
While Cashill earned his Eagle at some point back in the mists of time, the Scouts are not what he remembers. Boys can join at age 10-1/2 if they are graduating from Webelos. Eighteen-year-olds are ADULTS and may not be in a tent with any younger teen nor may they shower together. All this is well-established in the protection policies that have been in place going back to at least the 1980s when I got involved as a parent and leader. I absolutely disagree with the recent choices made by the National Council. They squandered their best resource, the Dale ruling, and chose the path of least resistance.
I am a former Life Scout.
I want nothing to do with the program now. Someone really needs to present a new organization, with the principles the old one (had).
The destruction has now been complete. Frankly, some people on our side of the article, seem to even have been responsible.
Scouts can’t share tents with adults. 18 is an adult
The people advocating gay scout leaders would never consider letting their sons sleep in a tent with a Catholic Priest.
The logic here would be letting your 12 year old son sleep in a tent within earshot of 2 men rutting in the next tent
I’m no supporter of BSA. The volunteers are great but management of the organization is toxic.
I was a Scoutmaster who left in January 2014 to form a Trail Life USA troop.
But, at no time may an adult share a tent with a youth, unless it is the boys father.
I do believe BSA is setting themselves up for major failure and the heartache of boys who will be molested by homosexual predators as a result of this decision. However, in very few instances will it be in camp.
Camp will be the place where trolling and recruiting occurs. The actual crime will be perpetrated outside of the camp setting.
This was a horrible and unforgivable decision by BSA and they will pay the price.
Other scouting organizations like Trail Life USA will reap some benefits. Sadly, the real losers will be the boys whose parents choose to not enroll them in any outdoor adventure program.
He didn’t get my drift,
I really find it hard to believe that "liberals" don't get this. I really believe they're being intentionally > 90 degrees.
Not in our troop. We allow no more than a two or three-year gap between ages of kids in tents.
I recall a week long summer canoe trip where one of our campsites got completely inundated in an hour long torrential downpour. Everything that wasn’t in a garbage bag got soaking wet.
Our scoutmasters said to heck with worrying about it and stripped off their clothes and went swimming, followed by the rest of us.
would you let your 14 year old daughter sleep in a tent with a 17 year old boy?
No but the opportunity might arise in a venture patrol of older scouts in which girls are members. The same is true for queers but those involved would shun if not outright not permit such an arrangement
The coolest thing in this article is the pointing out of the left’s position on the Catholic Church vs the Boy Scouts.
They despise “pedophile priests,” which was extremely rare: it was 90% young pubescent boys molested.
At the same time, they want gay young men IN TENTS with these same boys.
DOES NOT COMPUTE with any logic, unless you realize, as Cahill does, that the left’s actual goal is the destruction of traditional society. Great point and it really makes you think. Do the lefties and their media winged monkeys REALLY want what they say they want. Or are they just trying to break down good traditional values?
Use this on any libs bringing up these points.
But would you let your twelve-year-old son sleep in a tent with a or several twelve-year-old homosexual boy(s) or with a or several twelve-year-old transgender “boy?” (Honestly can’t begin to figure out what to call this. Ex.: A born boy identifying as a girl or a born girl identifying as a boy, whom may or may not possess girly or boy parts, and/or transitioning and/or fill in the blank). What comes next?