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09-21-2023, 7:14am | #41 | ||||||
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Aren't Southern Baptists famous for their hatefulness? I believe the Westboro Baptists are in that basic category.
Gayfulness or not I have issues with Scouts because of the groupthink that's central to their ethos including belief in "God" - a point Scouting has an unsurprisingly confused history on as far their official policy internationally and in the US. They now accept gays but still don't accept atheists. I'm guessing they don't advertise photos like these much nowadays - Scouts expressing fealty to their founder Robert Baden-Powell. Presumably later they goose-stepped around the camp. http://whale.to/c/afp7zuxgaaa.jpg http://whale.to/b/d7k3fytk.jpg |
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09-21-2023, 7:29am | #42 | ||||||
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My granddaughter just joined the Scouts.
Girl scouts were lame, did nothing but cookie sales. I think, regardless of what their policy is, gay, lgb, is irrelevant to the kids learning skills, team work, socializing etc. If gayness pops up, my daughter will yank her out. She will not play that pc game. |
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Hooo-reee thread revival.
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This thread is lacking context on the history of the BSA. Any sexual assaults that occurred prior to about 1960 (and I'm sure there were many), were pretty successfully covered up, so it was not a known issue. In the late '60s and early '70s (right when I was joining), the lawsuits for sexual assaults of scouts started becoming common, and VERY public. As a result, the BSA adopted a number of rules, one of which was that "openly gay" men were NOT welcome as scoutmasters or staff overseeing scouts in non-public places. The shit storm from the left was legendary, and has basically ruined the Boy Scouts as it existed when I was young. Now they are REQUIRED to accept gays, trans, and every other freakazoid that walks through the door, or be sued into oblivion. When you think about it, it's really not surprising at all. The BSA when I was in was all about helping pre-teen boys grow up to be confident, capable, self-reliant young men. This is anathema to the whole "liberal" agenda of making everyone weak, gay, and dependent on the government. So they had to attack it, and do the best they could to destroy it. They have more or less succeeded at this point. |
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