re: Boy Scouts of America changing name to be more inclusive

BSA Executive: How do we shed our image of being perverted, sex-obsessed pedophiles?

Outside firm: Allow openly gay men to watch children and let girls go on overnight campouts with boys. Oh, and change your name.

BSA Executive: Sounds great!

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Our troop is 200+ and managing the separate girl troop was not as hard as you think.

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well, I don’t care - our troop leaders don’t want to deal with the girls, the priest at the church was fine with it (the church holds the charter), and I think it’s great that our troop goes out and does boy stuff together with just boys

Although at district events - the council favors the girls

At camporee last year a girl squealed bc there was a snake in the boat - she and the other Girl Scouts wouldn’t go near the boat until the snake was gone - my oldest son got it out the boat

That’s Boy Scout material?

I don’t like it bc it sets a precedent that girls can do anything boys can do - and in many respects we can - but we need more MEN not women that can do male things

I don’t care about this at all.

The patrols are segregated not co-Ed and the standards aren’t relaxed or modified for girls.

If a girl can do all of the requirements then good for her. A buddy’s daughter got her Eagle and is going to the Airforce Academy - she earned every bit of it.

Wow. SBD and I agree on something.

I always thought the boy scouts were a gay cult group

Girls win all the camporee competitions- the judges are too easy on the girls

The girls rightfully won cooking, but knots?

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The girls rightfully won cooking, but knots?

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At our district wide winter campout they had a girl win the shooting competition. She shot a legit 0.5" group with 5 shots at 25 yards. After wards I got to see the target, and all of her shots were touching each other. I think her dad takes her to the range quite a bit. I'm guessing there were 200-300 scouts at the event?

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You do know that once you hit troop level that the sexes are separated, right?

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It does not matter what the curriculum states. I am talking about how events like campouts are coordinated.

Because there are fewer girls - the administrative (volunteer) parents spend an inordinate amount of time catering to the needs of the few.

When you finally get two moms who will commit to going on a camp out - one has a family emergency and can’t go. Then you can’t only go with one mom because you have to have two adults at all times. (Good rule to keep out the pervs).

So guess what??

The entire campout gets modified or cancelled.

But that is just my opinion from a decade in local Boy Scout leadership including Scoutmaster. Maybe I don’t understand how girls in Boy Scouts is better for everyone.

Maybe the hundreds of young men that I tried to challenge and encourage their character development don’t need it. Don’t need to: learn how to take care of yourself, your environment, and your fellow man. How to be a leader. How to love unselfishly. How to develop a clear vision and not let hardship deter you. Some of these principle apply to both sexes but there are no organizations speaking to the heart of young men. We think differently and need to learn differently.

I left scouting when I had a district representative tell me it was not a good idea to pray with these young men. I let them know every lesson I taught was rooted in truth and my only motivation was for their benefit.