The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) are in trouble. Membership is sinking like a stone, and the causes should be obvious to everyone except the brass at the BSA itself.
From the Christian Post comes the numbers,
"Eight years after lifting a ban on homosexual youth when it boasted more than 2.7 million members, the Boy Scouts of America now has just 762,000 members as it continues to grapple with some 82,000 sexual abuse claims from former Scouts, court records show."
"In just one year alone, from 2019 to 2020 amid the pandemic, the BSA’s flagship Cub Scouts and Scouts BSA programs lost 850,000 members dropping from 1.97 million to 1.12 million over the period. Since then, membership in those programs have fallen a further 358,000 to the current 762,000 according to figures recently reviewed by The Associated Press."
I must admit that I never made it past Cub Scouts. Back in the mid 1960's if we wore our uniforms to school we were called "gay". That was before the LGBT revolution! Kids knew (we also knew about the Catholic priests). My first encounter with a Boy Scout was with one who came to mentor us, and he set off my "gaydar". Later, I did become an Assistant Scoutmaster for a few years to watch over my kid, and we had some good, safe times with the scouts. By then the BSA had instituted the "Two Deep Policy" in order to keep boys from being in abusive situations.
Another report from the Christian Post tells how much BSA is shelling out for their past abuses,
The Boy Scouts of America has reached a historic settlement agreement with some 60,000 sexual abuse victims that legal experts believe is likely to exceed $1 billion in compensation, a restructuring support agreement filed Thursday in a federal bankruptcy court in Delaware shows.
I think the number wound up being $850,000,000.
These reports do not mention the lifting of the ban on homosexual men serving as Scoutmasters, nor do they mention the acceptance of girls and transsexuals as Scouts.
Fortunately, faith based groups are picking up some of the slack.
So, I shall wave a not so fond farewell to the Boy Scouts of America.
Bye, Bye!
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My husband is an Eagle Scout and former Scoutmaster, but in recent years he's declined to involve himself in Scouting. Like you and your son, his Scout years were supervised by his father, who made sure it was safe and constructive.
ReplyDeleteHe sounds like a wise man.
DeleteSounds like the modern episcopal church full of homosexuals and membership crashing.
ReplyDeleteThe leadership of TEo certainly has more than its fair share of them, and that drags down the whole organization.
DeleteWoke and full of homosexuals with membership crashing. Just like the modern episcopal church.
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