Another Piece Of The American Dream Gone.

Imp, a sexual deviant is a person whose sexual behaviour is beyond what is generally considered to be acceptable. In this case, I was referring to paedophilia.
 

Ralphy1 said:
Are the Boy Scouts still relevant? I know that this is off of topic but I don't know any young boys who join this organization anymore...
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According to wicki..just in America alone...

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with 2.7 million youth members and over 1 million adult volunteers.[SUP][2][/SUP] Since its founding in 1910 as part of the international Scout Movement, more than 110 million Americans have been at one point or another members of the BSA.[SUP][3]


[/SUP]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America

 
Interesting, but you would never know it here...
 

I'm just wondering if the values that were originally taught by Baden-Powell are still emphasized, or is it more like "Urban Bicycling" and "Fast Food Nutrition" ...
 
Nor do I. I tried joining the Cub Scouts when I was a wee imp many moons ago. All I got for two months was sitting at a church schoolroom desk trying to assemble a balsa-wood racing car by myself.

Then when my son joined I volunteered to be a leader, but soon found there to be way too much politics and in-fighting.
 
hollydolly said:
According to wicki..just in America alone...

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with 2.7 million youth members and over 1 million adult volunteers.[SUP][2][/SUP] Since its founding in 1910 as part of the international Scout Movement, more than 110 million Americans have been at one point or another members of the BSA.[SUP][3]


[/SUP]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America

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That may be, but does that make them relevant? I'm sure they must have many updated programs available. Understanding how your cell phone works is a lot more useful than the rubbing two sticks together thing.
 
If I remember some of my B.S. motto and principles, the BSA involved their principles with God and church. In the leader's eyes, having homosexuals as scout leaders may have conflicted with those principles, thus, the reason for excluding homosexuals. Just thinking out loud.
 
oldman said:
If I remember some of my B.S. motto and principles, the BSA involved their principles with God and church. In the leader's eyes, having homosexuals as scout leaders may have conflicted with those principles, thus, the reason for excluding homosexuals. Just thinking out loud.
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Did those principles cause them to exclude other sinners, as well, i.e., adulterers, liars, coveters, etc.? Probably not.
 
Butterfly said:
Did those principles cause them to exclude other sinners, as well, i.e., adulterers, liars, coveters, etc.? Probably not.
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Never said that homosexuality is a sin. And, no one would ever have known if any of our scout leaders were homosexuals. They don't wear t-shirts showing any affiliation. As for 'other' sinners, I don't know. At the age of 13-16, I never cared about such things, but if someone called you a queer or whatever, like John Wayne or whoever it was used to say, "Them's fightin' words." Today, it's just a phrase that nobody really pays much attention to. I think we may be going back to the day when if something is out of sorts, we can say, "That's queer," with impunity.
 
First of all I don't see why the BSA is concerned with religion, God and related. How about just teaching these boy about being good citizens and teach them some basic skills. They have no need for the religious affiliation, they can get that at home in their personal lives or their church. Many I am sure are not into the religion phenomenon.
 
I think it was Baden-Powell that set up the original religious factors, Jim. I could be wrong on that, just what I seem to remember ... he (along with most of the civilized world at the time) thought that without religion you would never be a complete person.
 
SifuPhil said:
I think it was Baden-Powell that set up the original religious factors, Jim. I could be wrong on that, just what I seem to remember ... he (along with most of the civilized world at the time) thought that without religion you would never be a complete person.
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Well we know how that thought turned out...
 
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