Good Grief! BSA! WTH is going on?!

[70mackMB]

What kind of fire is the Boy Scouts teaching kids to start? Angry parents want to know now that the organization is making condoms an official part of its World Jamboree. Almost five years to the day that they threw open doors to homosexuality, BSA leaders are making their leftward lurch complete with the announcement that birth control would be provided at their next 12-day jamboree where 12- to 17-year-olds will convene.

A document from the three-country planning committee is making the rounds — and the hosts of the West Virginia event have an interesting mandate. Jamboree organizers must now guarantee that “condoms are readily and easily accessible for all participants and IST [staff] at a number of locations on the site. Heads of contingent must be informed in advance and made aware of their responsibility in communicating this policy to their participants, unit leaders, and IST in an appropriate way.” While drug possession and/or alcohol consumption is forbidden for minors, sexual encounters are not.

Obviously, the jamboree’s three hosts — Scouts Canada, BSA Scouts, and the Asociacion de Scouts de Mexico — wanted to give campers a real feel for the event’s theme: “Unlock a New World.” Unfortunately for the 160 participating countries and territories, this is exactly the kind of irresponsibility Scouting has historically discouraged. But, as most people who’ve caved to the Left’s demands will tell you, accommodation is a slippery slope. Now, a half-decade into this new social experiment, the Boy Scouts has lost members. It’s lost money. It’s lost its moral compass. And it’s lost most people’s respect.

Of course, if it’s a wilderness experience the Boy Scouts is looking for, its dwindling numbers have given it plenty. Down 1.7 million members from its high-water mark, the Scouts doesn’t seem to have gotten the message that sexualizing kids is the best way to lose support. After barely surviving its clash with parents over same-sex scouting, the century-old group now seems intent on traveling the path to complete irrelevance. As if putting out the welcome mat for kids who identify as homosexual wasn’t unpopular enough, the organization knuckled under and let openly gay scout leaders serve too. Boys who identify as girls were next — until it threw out gender altogether and, this month, invited girls to join. Earlier this month, the organization even announced it was dropping “boy” from its name.

Now, the program is in a national nosedive — and leaders think the best way to revive it is to throw a two-week sex party? John Stemberger, who chairs the board of the BSA’s thriving Christian counterpart — Trail Life USA — couldn’t believe it.

“It’s not clear how far down the rabbit hole the Boy Scouts will continue to fall. With the addition of condoms and alcohol, the World Jamboree is starting to sound more like a 1960s Woodstock festival rather than a campout that parents would want to send their children to. All of this should be deeply disturbing to the churches that are chartering Boy Scout troops. The fact that they are requiring that condoms be ‘readily accessible’ and are communicating this to everyone … shows that the BSA is both anticipating and facilitating sexual conduct between minors at this event. These policies are both outrageous and completely irresponsible.”

After the BSA opened up its ranks to gender-confused scouts, the mass exodus was already well underway. Even the Mormons, who stuck with the Scouts through some of its worst decisions, are calling it quits. Inviting girls to join, the LDS Church finally admitted, is a bridge too far.

The Girl Scouts isn’t exactly a fan of the idea either. “We both need to increase our membership numbers,” a GSA spokeswomen said. Like the boys, it’s had a terrible time recruiting and retaining scouts after this period of intense radicalization. Now, the thought of having to compete with the BSA for girls is giving GSA headquarters fits. “The Boy Scouts’ house is on fire. Instead of addressing systemic issues of continuing sexual assault, financial mismanagement, and deficient programming, BSA’s senior management wants to add an accelerant to the house fire by recruiting girls.” Of course, the GSA took a faster route to controversy than anyone, partnering with Planned Parenthood, welcoming boys who dress like girls, and handing out copies of the sex manual “Healthy, Happy, and Hot.” Now, after a decade of promoting every cultural extremism, both national organizations are in a frantic search for scouts.

And thanks to decisions like the World Jamboree’s, that’s not going to change any time soon. In the end, even the Boy Scouts might not have the survival skills to weather this kind of storm. Fortunately, there are very good alternative organizations for boys and girls. Trail Life USA is a great scouting program for boys, and it’s growing by leaps and bounds. American Heritage Girls offers the similar values-based opportunities for girls.   --Tony Perkins--

[Red Horse]

Unreal-have difficulty understanding how things have gone this far.  Then again when you look at the crap we accept on TV,  the lack of good roll models, the decline of the family, it is not hard to understand why things are trending the way they are.

Just heard West Hollywood was giving Stormy Daniels some sort of good citizenship award!

[Mack Technician]

I and a buddy chartered a Lutheran Pioneers group for our kids. No issues, solid curriculum, faith based, absolutely loving it. Exclusion is key. 

[harrybarbon]

My daughter is traveling on a bus from N York to  Pennsylvania summer camp to do her second year as a group leader, after camp last year she told me that there were strict rules of behaviour for all students attending 7 to 16/17 years AND all the staff, there are about 800 students at her camp and 200 staff, the girls and boys have their separate dormitories, the group leaders are supervising their allocated groups from 7 am to 11 pm and there were no problems - camp for the students was 8 weeks. The rules don't change and many parents have their children attending every year from age 7 to 16, because they are confident of the safety and secure about the behaviour

My son did scouts for 3 years and there was none of that nonsense at the jamborees, the rules were made known to all, and the leaders did their jobs

The rules have worked for many many years, why change - to create division and invite problems?   

[james j neiweem]

Thank the Loony left.

[Mack Technician]

11 hours ago, harrybarbon said:

My daughter is traveling on a bus from N York to  Pennsylvania summer camp to do her second year as a group leader, after camp last year she told me that there were strict rules of behaviour for all students attending 7 to 16/17 years AND all the staff, there are about 800 students at her camp and 200 staff, the girls and boys have their separate dormitories, the group leaders are supervising their allocated groups from 7 am to 11 pm and there were no problems - camp for the students was 8 weeks. The rules don't change and many parents have their children attending every year from age 7 to 16, because they are confident of the safety and secure about the behaviour

My son did scouts for 3 years and there was none of that nonsense at the jamborees, the rules were made known to all, and the leaders did their jobs

The rules have worked for many many years, why change - to create division and invite problems?   

Exactly.

There are two lines of thinking that fundamentally never intersect, the progressive and conservative. The conservative wants change only if the fruit is a progressive improvement. The recklessness is that the progressive who just wants something new. 

We have two states in which all Boy Scout (liberal-driven) lawsuits have taken place.....California and New Jersey.

Exclusion is key, maintain your sovereignty. BSA failed to do that, which may bring growth when considering the state of the country. Don't be fooled to think they are going to dry up.......conforming to culture does not cause extinction, it more often brings rapid growth. Like rotting road kill that has started to bloat.   

Edited May 25, 2018 by Mack Technician

[HeavyGunner]

I’ll just stick to my World War II era scouts handbook. Sounds like it likely hasn’t had any improvements over the year. 

[Lmackattack]

Its Changes in the BSA like this that will lead to a new type of organization aimed to keep it focused on Boys only. I have always felt that at early ages it is best for boys and girls to learn from there same sex peers away from the co-ed school playground. Simple life things women do that we as men dont have a clue about and likewise with Men that women just would not understand. There is nothing wrong with that in my opinion. its the reason we all have character and why men do things differently than women. Its why we were taught to hold the door for them. walk closer to the street when accompanying them. It also gives us a reason to explore life as it has been done for 1000s of years. the men hunt and the women cook. its not that they cant shoot and we cant cook but more that the men do the danger work unless they insist to join us. its more of a sign of respect but they may try to tell you diffrently

 

[grayhair]

For many years Boy Scouts helped boys develop into respectful, well-mannered, young men.  And likewise Girl Scouts helped girls develop into well-mannered, respectful young women.

It is a sad day indeed that the leaders of the BSA cave in to the demands of loony fringe groups.  How many Dads will encourage their sons to become a Boy Scout?  And how many Moms will encourage their young daughters to go on intramural camping trips?

Tee BSA should have stood their ground against the gay activists, and, if unable to prevail, they should have disbanded the organization.  Sad day indeed...   

Edited May 25, 2018 by grayhair

[41chevy]

This is just an other step to gentrify the males, make them docile and not libel to oppose any changes or rebel.  Most have no father or positive male roll model to teach them any male skills. The reasoning is that feminizing boys will take the "violent" tendencies away...appears to be working well    NOT.  The Scouts started changing their image when Clinton was president. It was him who declared the Scout a "para military" group because they wore military style uniforms and learned survival skills. 

 

 

Edited May 25, 2018 by 41chevy