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Boy Scouts of America looks to bankruptcy as membership falls, lawsuits mount
Market Watch ^ | 12/13/2018 | By Katy Stech Ferek

Posted on 12/13/2018 7:07:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind

The Boy Scouts of America is considering filing for bankruptcy protection as it faces dwindling membership and escalating legal costs related to lawsuits over how it handled allegations of sex abuse.

Leaders of the Boy Scouts, one of the country’s largest youth organizations, have hired law firm Sidley Austin LLP for assistance with a possible chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, according to people familiar with the matter.

Founded in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America says that more than 110 million people have participated in its educational programs, which promote outdoors skills, character-building and leadership.

The Boy Scouts have been at the center of sexual-abuse scandals in the past, and the organization is facing a number of lawsuits that allege inappropriate conduct by employees or volunteers in incidents dating back as far as the 1960s. Filing for bankruptcy would stop the litigation and would give the nonprofit a chance to negotiate with victims who have sued.

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To: SeekAndFind

Accept homosexuals, what did they expect? Homosexuals and kids do not mix! Not at church, not in the Boy Scouts. Not anywhere.


21 posted on 12/13/2018 7:36:05 AM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: HighSierra5

I think the sodomites did this one in, more than commies.

Although there is a high overlap between sodomites and commies, so perhaps it’s a distinction without a difference.


22 posted on 12/13/2018 7:44:02 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fag-Scouts of America. Who cares???


23 posted on 12/13/2018 7:44:33 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: SeekAndFind

“So, what happened to the Girl Scouts?”

They were wholly taken over by angry lesbians 20 years ago.

No sane parent would let their daughters anywhere near them.


24 posted on 12/13/2018 7:45:06 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: fwdude

Tillerson


25 posted on 12/13/2018 7:45:37 AM PST by onedoug
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To: onedoug
Tillerson

Among several others. I can't remember his name, but the CEO of AT&T was also on the BSA board and was a rabid homo-leftist.

26 posted on 12/13/2018 7:47:01 AM PST by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what it allows with impunity.)
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To: Reno89519
Accept homosexuals, what did they expect? Homosexuals and kids do not mix! Not at church, not in the Boy Scouts. Not anywhere.

So, Anita Bryant was right all along.

27 posted on 12/13/2018 7:48:20 AM PST by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what it allows with impunity.)
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To: Reno89519

RE: Homosexuals and kids do not mix! Not at church, not in the Boy Scouts. Not anywhere.

Which one of these statements are true:

All Homosexuals are Pedophiles

Some Homosexuals are Pedophiles

All Pedophiles are Homosexuals

Some Pedophiles are Homosexuals


28 posted on 12/13/2018 7:56:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

In a flea market recently, I came across an old Bear handbook from my Cub Scout days in the 70s, and just seeing it brought back a rush of memories. Thumbing through it reminded me just how Scouting taught me. Also, nearly every Scout troop in my area met at a church (one met at a VFW), and all of my leaders and den mothers were married, church-going people. Scouting and Godly principles were synonymous. Our minister would attend big events and even - gasp - lead us in PRAYER! Scouting today has abandoned its moral foundations, and it deserves to die.


29 posted on 12/13/2018 7:56:52 AM PST by Restless
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To: MeanWestTexan

Yes, all these leftist organization are really the same and interchangeable. As you said, “a distinction with a difference”


30 posted on 12/13/2018 7:57:14 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: fwdude

Did Anita recant? I know she has spent her later years in obscurity, in OK, I believe it is.


31 posted on 12/13/2018 7:58:17 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: Theodore R.

Not that I’m aware of. Anita lived a quiet life after the sodomites forced numerous sponsors to drop her. She still has a website for public visibility.


32 posted on 12/13/2018 8:01:00 AM PST by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what it allows with impunity.)
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To: Theodore R.
By the way, recanting on a critical expression against homosexuality NEVER, EVER helps you. It just provides an "in" for the sodomites to attack you even more viciously.
33 posted on 12/13/2018 8:05:09 AM PST by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what it allows with impunity.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s see: The BSA was beset by liabilities that were created by child raping faggots and the solution they embraced was to turn the organization over to MORE child raping faggots?

I hope this is the end for the BSA. Once it became a place for faggots to predate on children it needed to end.


34 posted on 12/13/2018 8:08:02 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: fwdude

” (or whatever they call it now) “

The Butt Scouts of America.


35 posted on 12/13/2018 8:09:13 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: SeekAndFind

That was the leftist’s ultimate goal.

They pressured the BSA to swallow it’s own poison.

BSA leadership bowed the pressure and now it’s bankrupt.

The never took into consideration the parents belief systems.


36 posted on 12/13/2018 8:13:11 AM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: SeekAndFind

Congratulation to the perverts for the destruction of what was once a great American institution.


37 posted on 12/13/2018 8:13:36 AM PST by Amish with an attitude
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To: SeekAndFind; Reno89519

“Which one of these statements are true:

1) All Homosexuals are Pedophiles

2) Some Homosexuals are Pedophiles

3) All Pedophiles are Homosexuals

4) Some Pedophiles are Homosexuals

5) All homosexuals are mentally ill sexual deviants who should not be allowed anywhere near children.”

I’m going with #5.


38 posted on 12/13/2018 8:14:03 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Rex Tillerson and his pals have run a once glorious organization into the ground. Nice going, Rex!


39 posted on 12/13/2018 8:17:03 AM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: SeekAndFind

Good. Gay guys.


40 posted on 12/13/2018 8:23:23 AM PST by ZULU (Jeff Sessions should be tried for sedition.)
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