From The National Review
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) was founded 114 years ago by men who were concerned about the disappearance of traditional boyhood and the cultivation of masculine virtues as America rapidly urbanized. The organization received a hearty endorsement from the adventurer and popular former president Teddy Roosevelt and became a pillar of American culture for much of the 20th century. Although America is currently undergoing another acknowledged crisis for boys and men, the Boy Scouts of America won’t be there to meet their needs.
This week, BSA announced that it was changing its name to Scouting America. The president of Scouting America, Roger A. Krone, insists that “our mission remains unchanged, we are committed to teaching young people to be prepared for life.” Would that it were true. In reality, the renaming reflects changes that have already taken place — including the admission of more than 180,000 girls — and changes to come. CBS News reports that the rebrand is specifically aimed at recruiting more “diverse members” from the LGBT community.
For many, the name change is only further confirmation that the Boy Scouts have abandoned their traditional role of instilling traditional masculine virtues in boys, becoming yet one more arm of a progressive culture-war blob. In the past eleven years, the Boy Scouts have been utterly transformed. They ended a ban on gay adult leaders in 2013, welcomed girls who identify as boys to enroll in their boys-only program in 2017, and settled massive sex-abuse lawsuits. While Krone rambles that Scouting America is now dedicated to helping young people be their “authentic selves,” leaks online show that even the nominal separation of boys and girls in older troops is likely to be ended in favor of co-ed arrangements.
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3 Lessons From The Boy Scouts' Name Change
Boy Scouts of America recently announced it was changing it’s name to Scouting America. The rebranding move was announced as a small change that helps the brand better align to its values.
Five years ago, the organization changed its policies to allow girls to take part. Since the evolution of that policy, more than 176,000 girls have joined it’s programs, including 6,000 who’ve earned the Eagle Scout rank.
Back in 2017, Scouting America also made a change to welcome in transgender children into its programs.
Boy Scouts Petition Calls for Organization to Reverse Name Change
An online petition is calling for the Boy Scouts of America to reverse its planned name change.
On May 7, the organization announced a plan to change its name to Scouting America, which it said would reflect "the organization's ongoing commitment to welcome every youth and family in America to experience the benefits of Scouting." The name change, which is expected to go into effect on February 8, 2025—coinciding with the organization's 115th anniversary—sparked fierce backlash on social media.
A look at some of the turmoil surrounding the Boy Scouts, from a gay ban to bankruptcy
Founded in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America achieved a vaunted status in the U.S. over the decades, with pinewood derbies, the Scout Oath and Eagle Scouts becoming part of the lexicon
In 1990, the Boy Scouts of America expelled James Dale, an Eagle Scout who had become an assistant scoutmaster, after discovering he was co-president of Rutgers University’s gay and lesbian organization. He sued in 1992 accusing the Boy Scouts of discrimination, and lost at the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that the organization could maintain membership and leadership criteria that excluded homosexuals.
In 2017, the Boy Scouts announced that they would allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll in their boys-only programs.
That came after an 8-year-old transgender child was asked to leave his Scout troop in New Jersey after parents and leaders found out he is transgender.
When it sought bankruptcy protection in February 2020, the Boy Scouts of America had been named in about 275 lawsuits, and told insurers it was aware of another 1,400 claims.
Last year a federal judge upheld the $2.4 billion bankruptcy plan allowing the organization to keep operating while compensating more than 80,000 men who filed claims saying they were sexually abused while in scouting.
Killing The Boy Scouts
'We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.' - CS Lewis
Since its inception in the early 20th Century, the Boy Scouts of America has strived vigorously to make Men out of Boys. Not wimps, not degenerates, but honorable and upstanding men to fill the shoes of our forebears. Rabid Feminists loathe this notion and feel threatened in their psychopathic misandrism
Liberal Progressive Fascists despise the Boy Scouts - Making men [and women] 'with chests' makes it a lot harder to impose their will. It's a lot easier to lead sheep around by the nose than it is people with their own minds and the courage to speak it.
A Boy Scout pledges to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. These, apparently are traits despised by the American Left, it's because of these very traits and the organizations policies enforcing them, that the Boy Scouts are under a continual siege from Loony Liberals, rabid feminists and assorted Left wing Culture warriors. Read More
