Report: Boy Scouts of America May File for Bankruptcy
By Joshua Caplan
I suppose it was just a matter of time. What with all the ‘include diversity’ BS, the Boy Scouts became the Boy and Girl Scouts for no apparent good reason, except the Girl Scouts seems to have become a training ground for young feminists with cookies. The final straw was I think, being so inclusive the courts decided LGBT Scoutmasters were just peachy. It just got to be too much.
The Boy Scouts of America are considering filing for bankruptcy, according to a report released Wednesday.
The Wall Street Journal states leadership of the youth organization, mired in sexual misconduct litigation, hired the law firm Sidley Austin LLP to explore a wide range of options, including petitioning for relief under Chapter 11.
On Wednesday, Boy Scouts CEO Michael B. Surbaugh released a statement in response to the Journal‘s report, saying, “We are working with experts to explore all options available to ensure that the local and national programming of the Boy Scout of America continues uninterrupted.”
The Boys Scouts of America has undertaken rebranding efforts this year, announcing in May that the nonprofit would rename itself “Scouts BSA” in 2019. In May, the Boys Scouts of America announced girls will be allowed to join the group next year. “We wanted to land on something that evokes the past but also conveys the inclusive nature of the program going forward,” Surbaugh said at the time of the announcement. “We’re trying to find the right way to say we’re here for both young men and young women.”
Another staple of America has crashed on the reef of Political Correctness, and will never be the same. The rest of this sad saga may be viewed here at: Breitbart News
Tip of the hat to Poetrooper for the link.
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The LGBQX Scouts. Merit badges in Transgenderness and X Gender Camping. Bye.
Lefties win another one.
Next!
Ducked into the news linkie thingie, 2100 + comments and they rapidly went off on a “blame/don’t blame the Morman Church.” As AW1Ed would say “that thread tracked like a puppy on a leash.”
Like a number of us, I was in Scouting, Cub and Boy Scouts. We didn’t have gay Scoutmasters and the only girls around were the Cub Scout Den Mothers.
Who didn’t see this coming. smh… I’ll be back in a bit. I got some wreaths to put out.
If some new org emerges, you know, a PC LGBTQ whatever “scouts,” anyone taking bets on how long until it has merit badges in scissoring and a scoutmaster badge for grooming (and we’re not talking about combing your hair).
I will miss those Thin Mints… sort of.
That is Girl Scouts. You can still get your thin mints.
aka Boy Scouts, get with the program zika-commie!
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They are not the same organization. Girl Scouts are not going bankrupt.
You are not the sharpest tool in the shed are you Commissar?
There’s this thing you use to find things on the internet, it’s called “Google”. Find it, then ask it to define a word. The word is “sarcasm “. Then look in the mirror. There you will find an example of “dumbass”.
Squishface, you really are an idiot.
I know where Thin Mints come from, you incredible asshole. I used to sell them at school.
It is unfortunate that you are so completely dense, you can’t even recognize a metaphor when you come across one. It goes beyond being just a social moron with you. Try using that pea-sized brain of yours for something besides a paperweight.
What and ASSHOLE!!!! you are.
I must be really dense too, because I don’t get it. Girl Scouts sell thin mints (and other delicious creations). The article is about the Boy Scouts.
I wanna laugh too
The more I see of his rants, the more I think that “education” Babbles McButthead got at UC Berzerkely was little more than a heavy duty brainwashing!
My wife recently went to Aldis and found cookies that look and taste suspiciously like GS cookies, at about 1/3 of the price. Not to make a commercial about it. That’s where I get my Tag-a-longs.
The gays and girls ain’t the problem. If you are running the Troop right it doesn’t come up, and kids today really don’t care.
According to my son and his fellow recently minted Eagle Scouts, the problem is that we are coddling kids and have taken the challenge, and therefore the fun, out of scouting. When you hear a bunch of 15-18 year olds speak wistfully of ‘back when it was hard’, you have an issue.
Boy Scouts should be pushing kids right up to the edge of their comfort zone. It is a Leadership and Manhood laboratory for boys. They have to get over their fear of the dark, sleeping away from mom and dad, and the elements. They should learn to be self sufficient. There will be bullying and hazing, and boys have to decide if sleeping with their Dora the Explorer pillow is worth all the crap they’re gonna take for it, or if they should just man up.
Boys also learn to value people for the content of their character (sound familiar). and what they can contribute. Scouts in a patrol struggling to set up tents in the rain do not really care who is gay or a girl as long as they are pitching in.
We do things thing so precisely because they are hard (again, sound familiar?).
Boy Scouts BSA is losing membership because it lost sight of those core values. It’s about turning boys into men. If you want your gay son or daughter to be a man, by all means bring them to a meeting and the next camp out. Just don’t complain that the setting is too masculine or that the other Scouts don’t understand your kids’ struggles.
Right on….as we used to say.
“Boy Scouts BSA is losing membership because it lost sight of those core values.”
Yep, a major one being “Morally straight”… all the changes you mention are just more of the leftist bullshit that lead to doing away with the “Boy” in Boy Scouts. as an Eagle Scout, and son of one, I am disgusted with what’s become of the organization, and am not the least bit surprised that it ended up this way.. too bad it didn’t decide to die an honorable death before compromising everything that made it special.
I learned a long time ago about one of the fundamentals of modern communism from my commie, ex-hitler youth econ professor. It is called creating the “new man.” It requires the remaking of the populace with entirely new socialist values and goals. The principles and values of the Boy Scouts are not among them. Therefore, this organization must be exterminated.
So let me get this straight, Red, just so there’s no confusion here: It’s just peachy with you that we should roll over and play dead when the Left destroys another American institution through political correctness? To quote you:
“Boy Scouts BSA is losing membership because it lost sight of those core values. It’s about turning boys into men.”
Where in there do you include turning girls, gays and trannies into men? BSA is in this mess because, unlike their primary sponsor, the Mormon Church, they did the politically correct thing and conceded on every issue to the demands of the Left. Again to quote you:
“Scouts in a patrol struggling to set up tents in the rain do not really care who is gay or a girl as long as they are pitching in.”
No, perhaps the scouts don’t care, but I wonder how you gained the insight to speak for all of them. You may reside in a more fashionably tolerant area than most of us, so that your Eagle Scout son has been bombarded with all this inclusiveness BS in school and is accepting of it, as you appear to be. But more importantly, did it occur to you that maybe, just maybe, parents in the more traditional communities that make up most of America might care who their impressionable young sons in their formative years could be sharing those tents with?
You’re a smart fellow, Red, but in my opinion you’re dead, damned wrong on this issue.
Agree with you Poe, if my son hadn’t decided that Scouts wasn’t for him when he did, I would have for sure pulled him out when this went through.. I’d seriously question any parent that would be ok with their 12 y/o boy, especially if they’re on the smaller side, sharing a tent with a 17 y/o, much larger boy, who can’t figure what gender they are… if that isn’t asking for an increase in sexual assaults, I don’t know what is..
I was an active Cub, Webelos, and Boy Scout for a decade and achieved the rank of Eagle Scout in 1974. I applaud the Mormon Church for deciding to withdraw sponsorship of Boy Scout troops and eventually pulling its 610,000 youth from the program. The Mormon Church sponsors about half of all Boy Scout troops nationwide. Before the Mormon exodus, the death knell for scouting began when public school districts refused to allow troops access to their facilities because of BSA’s discrimination against gay scouts and leaders. The Supreme Court however, affirmed BSA is a private organization therefore it could lawfully ban homosexuals from its ranks.
BSA is no longer an organization espousing Christian values and I refuse to provide financial support. I also encourage my friends to not support BSA – don’t even buy the popcorn during their annual fundraiser. Personally, I hope bankruptcy fails to protect this organization and ultimately it ceases to exist. It’s money over morals. I give the organization my middle finger salute.
As The Kinks sang :
“Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world…”
The Kinks…great band from my day (80s). I think “State of Confusion ” by the same band applies here…
The alphabet freak show of blasphemous anal orifices and heshe’s/shehee’s and the leftist useful village idiots, achieve their goal by corrupting and bankrupting, what once was a fine organization fell into moral and financial extinction was inevitable for caving into political correctness instead of holding fast on to the traditions that made them what they WERE !.
Their leadership turned into COWARDS with no balls
Whom are they going too try to destroy next ? the military, the government ? they’ve been trying
They’ve been working on the military for over 30 years. Where you been hiding?
Was it the courts or Boy Scout leadership themselves that decided LGBTQXYZ… bullshit was just peachy? Regardless, either way they shot themselves in the foot then took a kill shot to the brain.
Their charter was to basically turn boys into moral young men and they have totally failed in the mission.
Get woke, go broke…
I was a Sea Scout. Great memories and sad to see that it has come to this… pathetic new world.
Wow. That is cool. Wish I knew they existed as a kid.
Mark the calendar. The Commissar does NOT know everything about everything.
“As a Sea Scout, I promise to do my best
To guard against water accidents;
To know the location and proper use of the lifesaving devices on every boat I board;
To be prepared to render aid to those in need and;
To seek to preserve the motto of the sea, “Women and children first”.”
No way he would buy that last part. It’s so sexist and paternal.
We always loved wearing crackerjack whites and blues. We really stuck out as a youth organization.
I thought the Power Squadron did all that stuff. Or was that the Power Rangers.
Only at the Power Exchange
You were too busy with the Young Socialists campfire meetings.
That or “The Young Pioneers”, a popular youth organization in the USSR.
Girl Scouts adopted the same policies and divided it ahead of the Boy Scouts.
It was a PR issue. Boy Scouts started taking specific political positions and put politics over scouting and branded themselves as aligned with a specific political party for years.
Then they shifted back and reversed their position.
In a nation so politically divided they alienated both sides of the political spectrum and thus the majority of their customer base.
Girl Scouts managed their PR better and thus are not going bankrupt.
They sell cookies. Follow the money.
Were you in the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts?
Lars is an expert in this, as he is in all things. He states Larsfacts. Larsfacts are bald statements of opinion presented as fact.
Larsfacts. Perfect description of what that asshat does.
I just watched Sammy the Wonderdog drop a steaming pile of Larsfact in my backyard.
Hey Babbles McButthead, what happened to the Great Big Bad Zika Epidemic you were howling about?
You’re right… except that you aren’t. The Girl Scouts haven’t adopted open membership where boys can join the organization.
That’s an interesting hypothesis, Lars, but you’re leaving out some critical elements. What the current news story is about, especially if you also follow all the related links down the internet rabbit hole, is that the Boy Scouts is re-branding itself and likely to file Chapter 11 because of 140 sexual misconduct lawsuits filed against scoutmasters. Such lawsuits follow other confidential reports revealed in 2012 by the BSA that it had 1000 incidents of sexual abuse between 1965 and 1985, but kept the information quiet.
And even though such information about the LGBT pedophile issue was available, the BSA then decided in 2015 to formally lift it’s LGBT ban which, understandably at least to me, led to its biggest benefactor, the Mormon Church, starting to sever ties.
Then there’s this:
My own view is that these are the words of an NGO marketdroid more interested in numbers and cash flow than somebody who has the values of a Baden-Powell who started the thing in the first place. What makes BSA CEO Surbaugh’s position even more egregious is a year-2000 Supreme Court decision which determined that it is not illegal for a private organization to restrict membership even if it involves gender or sexual orientation.
My brother and I got kicked out of Boy Scouts.
We beat up a kid that made fun of our uniforms.
We would wear them to school on meeting days.
I doubt that would be acceptable today.
Probably start calling them Blue Shirt Nazis.
Congratulations, 26. I have no doubt that had I joined the local troop, I would have been booted in short order, most likely for throwing handmade tomahawks at others.
I was a Boy Scout. I got more from the organization than I ever contributed, but I think that was kind of the idea about the organization. It paves the way for the real world. The real world is typically void of safe spaces and mommy’s basement.
I don’t care WHO you want to have sex with AS LONG AS IT AIN’T WITH A SCOUT! That should be the standard for a leader in the Boy Scouts.
They wanted to cave into the bullsh*t so, it sucks but they may have to go……
Then REAL Scout Leaders can resurrect it all.
The word “BOY” in the title “Boy Scouts” should have tipped off the early feminists that this was not a club open to girls.
There was a reason Lord Baden-Powell wanted an organization geared to boys, and why he designed it to be the organization it was.
THe main reason for it’s existence was to build GENTLEMEN; the kind of gentlemen that seem to be lacking in society today; the kind of gentlemen who treated ALL people with respect.
It’s mandate was not meant to be a school for social engineering, and experimentation.
But, you put the male pronoun on something, it automatically becomes bad, and must be mad open to women, then everyone else, regardless of how that may effect the organization in the long run.
I wish we would have had a Venturing Crew in my neck of the woods growing up. I was bored in Girl Scouts and wanted nothing to do with them.