Posted on 07/27/2021 9:39:34 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The news over the past few years has offered little to cheer about, but a recent story reporting an unprecedented 43 percent decline in membership in the Boy Scouts of America from 2019 to 2020—from 1.97 million Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts to 1.12 million—was especially dispiriting. To make matters worse, the Associated Press reports that BSA membership has fallen even further since 2020—to about 762,000. For purposes of comparison, combined enrollment in the BSA—Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts—peaked in 1972 at 6.5 million members and as recently as 1998 was 4.8 million. These numbers are shockingly grim. The once-robust BSA is on life support, with a seemingly fatal malady.
What happened to this venerable youth organization, brought to America in 1910? The BSA was once an iconic institution, producing as Eagle Scouts prominent Americans including President Gerald Ford, astronaut Neil Armstrong, filmmaker Steven Spielberg, animator William Hanna, businessman Ross Perot, television host Mike Rowe, and many others. More than 130 million Americans have participated in the BSA since its inception. The immediate cause of the precipitous decline in membership is a triple-whammy of the Covid-19 pandemic, highly-publicized litigation involving charges of decades-old sexual abuse against 60,000 alleged victims (leading to an $850 million settlement and BSA’s Chapter 11 filing in 2020), and the aftermath of the national organization’s decision in 2019 to admit girls (resulting in the withdrawal from the program of its largest participant, the Latter-day Saints (Mormon) Church, ending an association that began in 1913).
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Elegy - a word I don’t see often - Def:: a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead
Not surprising that the Boy Scouts are almost dead as an organization. What father in his right mind would let his son go camping in the woods with a know Sodomite scout leader?
The Boy Scouts went terminal when Rex Tillerson and the rest of the woke warriors demanded to let homosexuals be Scout leaders.
Nowadays “success” means getting rich as a grifter.
The Girl Scouts aren’t in a lot better shape - and for the same reason.
The Boy Scouts problem began when it started taking big corporate money to pay for expensive campgrounds, a new HQ building and big salaries for top staff. After that, they were bought and paid for and there was no turning back.
Bush’s deep-state careerist head of CIA and Defense (and Obama’s too), Director of National Intelligence and Council on Foreign Relations member Robert Gates then removed the ban on “Gay Scoutmasters” in 2016. When he left, he was replaced by the CEO of AT&T
It seems almost like a long-term CIA plan to control, disrupt and undermine one of the most well-known and independent civic institutions in America.
The corrupt BSA kakistocracy turned the organization into a leftist perversion.
One of those kakistocrats was former U.S. Secretary of Defense and former CIA director Robert Gates, who supported Obama’s withdrawal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that prevented gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.
Gates should be held in complete and utter contempt.
“It seems almost like a long-term CIA plan to control, disrupt and undermine one of the most well-known and independent civic institutions in America.”
Part of the cultural Marxist attack on men and their leadership roles, and on boys learning to become men. Another leftist program of social division, so we can soon be socially conquered.
A scout WAS
Trustworthy
Loyal
Helpful
Friendly
Courteous
Kind
Obedient
Cheerful
Thrifty
Brave
Clean
Reverent
Note: WAS
These days the Girl Scouts are primarily an organization that sells over priced cookies .....with the vast majority of proceeds going to fund inflated administrative salaries
As soon as Obama and Romney supported gay scout leaders the BSA was done.Obama and Romney are the tag team of destruction.
Of course it was a purposeful act. Only leftwing pervo looting organizations are to be allowed.
The scouts fought valiantly to keep the faggots out but were eventually overwhelmed due to lack of money. Most chapters were financed by church money and private money so they eventually had to allow sodomites to have sleepovers in the woods with known homosexuals due to court rulings. Naturally the sodomites raped the children,.....because that's what pedophiles do. Now the scouts are bankrupt due to payouts from lawsuits coming from sodomites that were allowed into the scouts.
What did people think would happen if pedophiles forced their way into the ranks of the scouts?
Now there are no more Eagle scouts to learn patriotism and responsibility. No more scouts to be raised up in a Godly fashion and know right from wrong. No more cub scouts to learn the outdoors or how to treat a girl. No more boys becoming American patriot men.
The downfall of America is assured now with the batch of unknown pronoun sissies that hates America. Boys unable to go outside their own home at night or even fix their own dinner. I can't imagine what we are sending to boot camp for a drill sergeant to try and train to even save their own life let alone save the world.
Just think about how difficult it would be to start your own "scouts" organization today to raise young men into American citizens. Half of them would be wearing dresses and saving for their operation to remove their own penis. They couldn't feed themselves in the woods and wouldn't be able to kill and skin a squirrel. America is almost over. The writing is already on the wall. When you think of the caliber of men today, a thousand random men my produce 100 real men, but that isn't enough to save what's left of our inheritance. Loosing the scouts over just one or two Generations will be a big part of why America is destined to fail. God cannot allow America to live after He judged Sodom and Gomorrah so long ago.
I see America on a tightrope, blindfolded, with one hand tied behind it's back. shaking the other hand up at God, screaming "What are you going to to about it now!" There is no net.
“...producing as Eagle Scouts prominent Americans including President Gerald Ford, astronaut Neil Armstrong, filmmaker Steven Spielberg, animator William Hanna, businessman Ross Perot, television host Mike Rowe, and many others...”
And Bonemaker.
A magnificent, noble organization. Unfortunately, we are witnessing the attempted destruction of the BSA, Americana as a whole, and the very concept of America. Something has to give folks.
Trail Life USA is a much better choice. Conservative and God based.
Let’s just cut to the chase: The queers and their sycophants in the government, the media, academia, and the entertainment industry KILLED OFF all of the Scouting organizations. Now they’re in the process of killing off all of the college and professional sports organizations.
These days the Girl Scouts are primarily an organization that sells over priced cookies .....with the vast majority of proceeds going to fund inflated administrative salaries
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I wouldn’t take possession of a box of those cookies if they were offered to me by my own granddaughter. Of course that’s not going to ever happen because she will never be selling any of those cookies!
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