Time to Quit the Boy Scouts AND the Girl Scouts?

Time to Quit the Boy Scouts AND the Girl Scouts?

 

There are alternatives to joining the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and the Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA) and now is a perfect time for our young people to consider those options.

Following the resolution passed last May by the BSA National Council to break with its century-old, Christian moral tradition of prohibiting membership by “open or avowed” homosexual boys and the implementation of that resolution as of January 1st, 2014, the Boy Scouts of America are no longer your father’s or grandfather’s Scouts and your sons just may be forced to bunk with an “open or avowed” homosexual kid on their next overnight scouting adventure.

Likewise, the GSUSA, which has long promoted itself as ”the world’s preeminent organization dedicated solely to girls” but which, due to the adoption of “progressivism,” is now plagued by declining membership, revenues, and volunteers, disagreements among its leadership and its grassroots, and upheavals over plans by various local councils to sell their summer camps, incredibly chose abortion advocate Wendy Davis, an unknown Texas state senator, as a woman deserving of inclusion on the Girl Scouts’ list of 2013′s “incredible women of the year.” 

In addition, the GSUSA caved to unrelenting pressure from the LGBT lobby in 2012 by admitting a 7-year old “transgendered” Colorado boy into its ranks, provoking a nationwide boycott of (vastly overpriced) Girl Scout cookies.  That politically-correct decision calls into question their boast that they are “the world’s preeminent organization dedicated solely to girls.” 

Suellen Nelles, head of a local Scout council based in Fairbanks, Alaska Scout contends, “We have a leadership at the top who are toxic to this organization and need to go” and believes the source of that toxicity is emanating from the national CEO, Anna Maria Chavez.

The BSA will still exclude atheists, agnostics from membership and, interestingly for what it suggests, they will still exclude adult homosexuals from participating in the organization and interacting with the kids.  The GSUSA has tried to backtrack on Davis’ inclusion after incredibly characterizing her on the official Girl Scouts Twitter account as “incredible” simply because Davis had filibustered against prohibiting abortions of pre-born Texan infants after 20 weeks gestation. 

The purpose of this post, however, is not to castigate the BSA for abdicating its responsibilities by admitting young homosexuals into the Boy Scout ranks, (while judiciously prohibiting adult homosexuals.)  Nor is the intent here to demean the GSUSA . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=35039.)