The Boy Scouts will no longer be The Boy Scouts

Posted by Solver 7 years, 6 months ago to Culture
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“After 108 years, the Boy Scouts program is set to drop the gender from its name and re-emerge as "Scouts BSA," a more "inclusive" group that will also soon welcome girls in its ranks...”


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  • Posted by brkssb 7 years, 6 months ago
    Why don’t you all let each girl or boy decide if he or she would like to join an organization that is focused on survival skills, or domestic skills?
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  • Posted by tdechaine 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And as I said before, the Left will consider that a victory in the name of collectivism and equality.
    Let's hope such actions backfire on them.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    One thing about the left, give them a morsel and they will make it their life’s goal to take the whole thing.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It used to be a "badge" of honor to say one was an Eagle Scout and employers considered it a mark of honesty and high praise. The military automatically ranks you up if you are an Eagle Scout - even the enlisted folks. That will all disappear now that there will be no exclusivity and no meaning to what was once a singular honor.

    Your daughter won't be joining the Boy Scouts, she'll be joining an organization no one cares about any more because it was destroyed by leftists.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Similar to the Bell Curve controversy, i.e., another similarly irrational controversy. Feminists following the racist path.
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  • Posted by tdechaine 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    But it's not about inclusion; it's about individual rights - the right of separation of boys and girls.
    We simply should not succumb to liberal pressures like this.
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  • Posted by tdechaine 7 years, 6 months ago
    Pure collectivism - as with everything else in this growingly liberal/irrational country.
    Presumably, the girl scouts - and gays and transgenders - will be assimilated into the "Scouts"; then no one will have to buy GS cookies, and perhaps enough boys (properly defined) will drop out which will destroy the intended initial good of the organization.
    Liberals always choose destruction over the "unequal" and "discrimination" (of a moral kind). People need to push back on the so-called gender crisis of differentiation.
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  • Posted by ArtIficiarius 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not many years ago there was a raging argument about IQ test performance and its consequences. This considered Mensa membership and "Ms and feMs or Mensa and Densa" (sic).
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  • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 6 months ago
    As an Eagle Scout and Scoutmaster, this was disappointingly inevitable, but the result of electing to the Scout Board individuals who never believed in Scouting they way Lord Baden Powell envisioned - as a place to train boys to become real men with leadership and life skills and a focus on morality and hard work. That's anathema to the leftists because it is contrary to everything they stand for. The leftists started off by getting them dropped from United Way funding, then had a temporary setback with the Dale decision (Supreme Court) so they decided instead to infiltrate the Scout Board and change the policies from there. There is effectively zero official Boy Scouting organization as of this decision.

    You will see the Boy Scouts effectively dissolve as an organization in the next two years because the mainstay of Scouting has been Christian Churches, especially the Baptists and Mormons. Once those two organizations drop out, Scouting is done - no matter how "inclusive" they want to be. There were already a host of Christian churches which dropped support after the policy about homosexual scouting leaders. This will be the final nail in the coffin.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What will you now do, given the change to a mixed-gender youth group?

    I would have an alternative to recommend, but I doubt most here would appreciate knowing about it.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Don't need to. That organization was co-opted by the left 30 years ago. The only thing left of that organization is the cookies.
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    Posted by evlwhtguy 7 years, 6 months ago
    It is a great idea. The boys will now have someone to cook and wash for them on camping trips.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 7 years, 6 months ago
    That hurts more than you know. I was (and arguably am) an Eagle Scout.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 6 months ago
    He is a "Boy Scout" that was an analogy for a well prepared thoughtful young man . Boy Scouts came under attack because that's what the left does....they attack good and positive. Cancerous Corporate leaders who clearly oppose family values assist . For example Actions of Disney Inc. who prohibited employees to donate to the organization fifteen years ago. Gay scout leaders hmmmm is that a good idea ? It Probably increases the potential for abuse and now having young girls at over night camp outs.

    Buying Girl Scout cookies a few weeks ago......
    I asked the three young ladies dressed in their uniform if boys can be Girl Scouts? They said that was being discussed . I than asked isn't there Boy
    Scouts already? One girl looked confused the other two smiled knowingly.
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  • Posted by Domminigan 7 years, 6 months ago
    The Girl Scouts is the way that it is because that is the way the people involved over the years have made it.
    That is the way they wanted it, and so they made it into what they wanted.

    The Boy Scouts was the way that it was because that is the way that the people involved in it over the years had made it.
    Over time, some of the programs have changed, others have remained the same or very similar. That's the way the people wanted it and so they kept it the way it was.

    Now it is drastically changing, and it is changing quickly. I expect that they will find a need to integrate the separated boy/girl dens and troops after a while.
    If they really had any intention of creating really separated programs, they would have created the "BSA Girls' Scouting" and created it as a separate set of programs.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, and just who will end up as a Target? Perhaps, a new MeToo recruit, who only came to roast marshmallows over a campfire before turning in for the night.
    Me dino wouldn't let my little girl join such PC BS.
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