The Boy Scouts Did Not Live Up To Their Own Principles

The recent announcement that the Boy Scouts will shortly change the name of the organization to "Scouts BSA", and with the change will now come the admission of girls to the ranks brought a bit of sadness to me. The Boy Scouts have taught generations of boys how to grow up to become gentlemen. How to be a man is simple enough.  Biology takes care of that.  But to become a gentleman is a different matter entirely, and the old Scout Oath and Scout Law embodied these ideals. Scout programs then taught these boys how to live these ideals in everyday life through doing. Many scout activities involved enduring pain, hardship and  frustration, and forced a boy to face himself and decide who he was going to become. It also taught responsibility. I remember one year I was the "logistics officer" for our Scout Troop and had charge of the camping equipment. Besides keeping an inventory of the camping equipment, I also had to clean everything up, dry it out, and pack it up after every use so it would be ready for the next trip. It was a big responsibility for a boy of 12.

With these thoughts in mind, I read Paul Kengor's piece over at The American Spectator entitled The Marxist Progressive War on the Boy Scouts. Kengor shows, through links to original sources that the Communists have had a goal of destroying the Boy Scouts of America since at least a year after its founding. The first article against scouting appeared in The Young Socialist Magazine in 1911! You need to read the whole article, and follow the links to the original sources. Even Kengor admits that this story will sound like the old red scare stuff of the 1950s, but the original sources prove its all true. Finally, the Marxist have marched through the institution of the Boy Scouts and as they always do, have left their trash thrown about, have shat on the carpets, and urinated in the corners. What is left of a fine organization is not worth joining.

The Boy Scouts of America thus points out once again the folly of any organization giving an inch to the left.  Just as gun owners have said "not one inch" so should every American institution do.  Yes, the Boy Scouts were under near constant attack from so called "gay rights" and "transgendered" groups, and the cost was no doubt expensive.  But appeasement is not an option.  The idea that if you throw a bit of flesh to the jackals that they will be satisfied and go away is not reality.  From the start, they want it all, and a bit of flesh will just encourage them.  The Boy Scouts, being a private organization, could have withstood the onslaught, but they didn't live up to their own principles.  The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has done the same thing, by not living up to Martin Luther's theology, they have soiled the name of Lutheranism, and become a shell of what they were.  Do not give an inch.