Well stated Ed. Scouting is what YOU make of it, if there is something wrong join and change it! IT CAN BE DONE>
There are bad apples everywhere, if you find some in scouting, take that information to the district or council level, if your still not satisified, (yes Virginia, sometimes there is an “old boys network’) take it to National. They usually don’t put up with any inytollerence, especially when it involves the child. I know this works, I’ve done it!
Thank you Ed Darrel, for clearing up the rank versus character part of things. I don’t think Sara’s experience is representative of Eagle Scouts in general, though I’m sorry she experienced that. The Scouting experience doesn’t make saints, unfortunately.
@TokyoRose: Scouting does teach religious tolerance. Only belief in a supreme being is necessary to be a Scout: it’s not a religious organization. This creates common ground for all members, allowing the Oath and Law to be rooted in a Scout’s reverence for his creator, and a desire to act in accordance with that reverence.
The BSA also does not want its scouts compromised sexually, meaning they don’t allow leaders that define themselves as such, or act as such. When leaders do, they are banned from scouting.
Sara, you should have reminded him of his oath. I find that works with most Eagles, a few Republicans excepted.
Earning 121 merit badges is a great achievement; so is earning Eagle. My experience is that both achievements tend to improve the kids who make them. I’ve known a few Eagle Scouts I’d liked to have strangled; in one case, I knew his brother. Earning the Eagle made a huge difference.
It’s not the Eagles who make bad policies for the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. I do wish more of those who complain about those policies would have the good grace to sign up as an adult leader and make the changes necessary.
Our government frequently gets populated by twits, to note another organization that has high ideals it too often fails to live up to. Sometimes people organize and get out votes to make serious change. Oddly, serious change is almost always achieved by those who get in and work, and almost never by those who carp from the sidelines.
Too bad there are people intolerant of decency and morality.
The Boy Scouts are our best people. To slam them because they do not allow and rejoice in immoral homosexuals, pedophiles, bestialphiles and others is remarkable only in it’s bigotry and intolerance.
Well stated Ed. Scouting is what YOU make of it, if there is something wrong join and change it! IT CAN BE DONE>
There are bad apples everywhere, if you find some in scouting, take that information to the district or council level, if your still not satisified, (yes Virginia, sometimes there is an “old boys network’) take it to National. They usually don’t put up with any inytollerence, especially when it involves the child. I know this works, I’ve done it!
Thank you Ed Darrel, for clearing up the rank versus character part of things. I don’t think Sara’s experience is representative of Eagle Scouts in general, though I’m sorry she experienced that. The Scouting experience doesn’t make saints, unfortunately.
@TokyoRose: Scouting does teach religious tolerance. Only belief in a supreme being is necessary to be a Scout: it’s not a religious organization. This creates common ground for all members, allowing the Oath and Law to be rooted in a Scout’s reverence for his creator, and a desire to act in accordance with that reverence.
The BSA also does not want its scouts compromised sexually, meaning they don’t allow leaders that define themselves as such, or act as such. When leaders do, they are banned from scouting.
Sara, you should have reminded him of his oath. I find that works with most Eagles, a few Republicans excepted.
Earning 121 merit badges is a great achievement; so is earning Eagle. My experience is that both achievements tend to improve the kids who make them. I’ve known a few Eagle Scouts I’d liked to have strangled; in one case, I knew his brother. Earning the Eagle made a huge difference.
It’s not the Eagles who make bad policies for the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. I do wish more of those who complain about those policies would have the good grace to sign up as an adult leader and make the changes necessary.
Our government frequently gets populated by twits, to note another organization that has high ideals it too often fails to live up to. Sometimes people organize and get out votes to make serious change. Oddly, serious change is almost always achieved by those who get in and work, and almost never by those who carp from the sidelines.
The boy who tormented me in high school, slandered people who did not share his views, and was an all about twit was an Eagle Scout.
Joining some silly organization and working at its goals does not a good person make.
Too bad there are people intolerant of decency and morality.
The Boy Scouts are our best people. To slam them because they do not allow and rejoice in immoral homosexuals, pedophiles, bestialphiles and others is remarkable only in it’s bigotry and intolerance.
If only there was a Boy Scout badge for religious and sexual-orientation tolerance…
Now that’s the kind of Boy Scout who we could be proud to have as president