Boy Scouts of America may declare bankruptcy

By Max Jaeger December 12, 2018

The Boy Scouts of America is mulling declaring bankruptcy amid flagging membership and an avalanche of costly sex abuse allegations, according to the Wall Street Journal.  Leaders have hired Chicago law firm Sidley Austin for help in a potential Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, sources told the outlet.  The organization has been fending off lawsuits over alleged abuse, including one filed by four former scouts who called the club a “pedophile magnet” and alleged that they were molested by scoutmaster Waldron Ackerman between 1974 and 1976............To Read More....
 

A Little Background: The Marxist-Progressive War on the Boy Scouts.  Today’s progressives have completed the takeover and destruction communists first started calling for more than a century ago.   - Paul Kengor June 1, 2018 - The title of this article will raise eyebrows even among conservatives, but read on. The title is accurate and undeniable.  The left has succeeded in driving a final nail in the coffin of the Boy Scouts as it once was. The organization is now a shell of its self. It capitulated first on “gay” scout leaders, then on “transgender” scouts, and now on girls joining the Boy Scouts.   Progressives bask in their triumph, dancing on the grave of an organization they never wanted to build up; it was an organization they wanted to take down. For the left, this is less about giving something to girls than taking something from boys. It’s another scalp on the cultural-ideological wall. Lest anyone think this isn’t a take-down, or a fundamental transformation, well, consider that the Boy Scouts of America, founded in 1910, will now be called simply “Scouts BSA” for those ages 11 to 18 (a change openly celebrated with puffy propaganda pieces by PC-stylists at the BSA website). This is a coerced inclusion of gender-neutral “Cub Scouts.”........To Read More....

Boy Scouts of America Votes to Allow Gay Scout Leaders  - July 27, 2015 By Pete Williams - The governing body of the Boy Scouts of America voted Monday to end its decades-long ban on gay scout leaders.  The organization's national executive board, meeting in Texas, concluded that the policy of excluding gay adults "was no longer legally defensible." The decision was approved by 79 percent of the board............."For far too long this issue has divided and distracted us," former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Scouting's current president, said in a statement. "Now it's time to unite behind our shared belief in the extraordinary power of Scouting to be a force for good in a community and in the lives of its youth members."..........Gay adults rejected as scout leaders have threatened to sue, and New York's attorney general opened an investigation of the employment policy at the Boy Scouts of America...........To Read More....

Boy Scouts Lose Philadelphia Lease in Gay-Rights Fight - By IAN URBINA DEC. 6, 2007 - For three years the Philadelphia council of the Boy Scouts of America held its ground. It resisted the city’s request to change its discriminatory policy toward gay people despite threats that if it did not do so, the city would evict the group from a municipal building where the Scouts have resided practically rent free since 1928.  Hailed as the birthplace of the Boy Scouts, the Beaux Arts building is the seat of the seventh-largest chapter of the organization and the first of the more than 300 council service centers built by the Scouts around the country over the past century.  But over the years the fight between the city and the Scouts was about more than this grandiose structure in Center City.  Municipal officials said the clash stemmed from a duty to defend civil rights and an obligation to abide by a local law that bars taxpayer support for any group that discriminates. Boy Scout officials said it was about preserving..........To Read More....

 

Liberalism Bankrupts the Boy Scouts - George Neumayr - PC policies can be costly.  The other day President Trump called Rex Tillerson “dumb as a rock.” That was payback for an interview in which his former Secretary of State called Trump undisciplined and a poor study. Trump had selected Tillerson for the job based in part on the recommendation of Robert Gates, Obama’s Secretary of Defense, according to press reports. Gates and Tillerson knew each other largely from the Boy Scouts, where they both held leadership positions during its transition from a traditional organization to a politically correct one.  As president of the Boy Scouts, Gates had endorsed the adoption of the LGBT agenda, urging the organization to succumb to the demands of its critics. He cast adherence to Christian principles, not their betrayal, as the real threat to the organization’s future.

“The status quo in our movement’s membership standards cannot be sustained,” he said. Don’t resist “the social, political and judicial changes taking place in our country,” he argued. Shamefully, Gates presented his counsel of capitulation under the guise of dutifulness, putting a perverse spin on the Boy Scouts code: “Our oath calls upon us to do our duty to God and country. The country is changing, and we are increasingly at odds with the legal landscape at both the state and federal levels. And, as a movement, we find ourselves with a policy more than a few of our church sponsors reject, thus placing Scouting between a boy and his church.”.............As once-great institutions teeter under the weight of failed liberalism, you would have to be dumb as a rock to stake their “survival” on even more of it. And yet that is often the counsel given by everyone from Gates and Tillerson to Pope Francis and his hapless bishops. If history has taught us anything, it is that liberalism is not an agent of expansion but an acid that burns through everything it touches...........To Read More.......

My Take - What do those who promoted this have to say now?  Ooooops? 

 

The position of the BSA has been know since it's inception, and yet no one noticed anything "discriminatory" about their policy since it's founding in 1908 in Britain and in 1910 in the United States.  Foundationally the Scouts promoted the moral concepts "To help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight"............[to be] "brave, clean, and reverent"......"Boy Scouts of America believes that no member can grow into the best kind of citizen without recognizing an obligation to God."

 

So everyone knew that was foundational to their organization and everyone thought it was fine, until now.  Now it's discriminatory!  We've lost our minds because the nation's churches have abandoned the very moral foundations they claim is foundational to their faith.   The nation's "Christian" churches have abandoned the Bible, betrayed their oaths to God, embraced leftist heresy and the nation has followed and is paying the penalty for the failure of it's "leaders".

 

Imagine that!