So long Boy Scouts

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Re: So long Boy Scouts

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Dark,

I'm kind of there with you. I was an Eagle Scout and if I'm being honest I didn't enjoy scouting, and I certainly wouldn't have joined had it not been for my Ward. Obviously, it was a sum total positive for me much in the same way taking piano lessons as a kid was. Didn't want it, but didn't hate that I did it looking back.

Scouting will be better served by a small cadre of dedicated outdoorsmen rather than suburban dudes being told to do it.

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Re: So long Boy Scouts

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Scouting will be better served by a small cadre of dedicated outdoorsmen rather than suburban dudes being told to do it.

- Doc

That is so true, well said.
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The church said thatTuesday, when it announced it is ending a century-long partnership and putting together its own youth program based on LDS Mormonism.

The calendar shows that it did so just six days after the former Boy Scouts of America changed its name to Scouts BSA and just seven months after Scouts BSA announced that it would allow girls.

http://fox13now.com/2018/05/08/lds-chur ... f-america/

It seems allowing girls was the final straw.

To anybody that believes the Church is working towards gender equality :lol:
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Re: So long Boy Scouts

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This move by the Utah Cult further separates it from the real world of normal people. Thus we see that the Mormons are a weird counter-culture people who refuse to move with the times because they are so ingrained in their own weirdness and self choseness.

Goodbye Mormons! Nobody wants to join you. Mormonism is a freak show and the temple is absolute proof of that. Bloody freaky.
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Re: So long Boy Scouts

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Jersey Girl wrote:And so long, Girl Scouts.

[SNIP!]

I never in my life imagined I would ever write a commentary like this.

On my honor.

:-(

Unusual to agree with Jersey Girl.....

It's utterly a shame for both programs. There is nothing absolutely wrong with having separate programs for girls and boys.

People NEED to have their own spaces to create their own strengths, they shouldn't "have" to do everything with everyone else not like them.

It's important to work with like others also for development.

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Shades, the LDS church may not have incorporated the Girl Scouts, but they most certainly have had a Young Women's program, in which they do their things including some things the Scouts do such as Girls camp or whatever it's called, a big thing in wards.
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Re: So long Boy Scouts

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ldsfaqs wrote:Unusual to agree with Jersey Girl.....

Did it hurt?

:wink:
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Re: So long Boy Scouts

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ldsfaqs wrote:Shades, the LDS church may not have incorporated the Girl Scouts, but they most certainly have had a Young Women's program, in which they do their things including some things the Scouts do such as Girls camp or whatever it's called, a big thing in wards.

By your logic, the LDS church also had a Young Men's program, so why did it bother with Boy Scouts?
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Re: So long Boy Scouts

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Dr. Shades wrote:By your logic, the LDS church also had a Young Men's program, so why did it bother with Boy Scouts?

Possibly because of the politics of Robert Baden-Powell, plus Bertie Wooster had been informed about the existence of the mysterious "Eulalie". At least that can serve as a working theory.
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Re: So long Boy Scouts

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Jersey Girl wrote:
ldsfaqs wrote:Unusual to agree with Jersey Girl.....

Did it hurt?

:wink:


I'm more wondering if it hurt for you since you're bucking against the side your actually on that created this problem, a.k.a. Leftism?

I'm never hurt by the truth and right and am joyed when people choose it.
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Re: So long Boy Scouts

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moksha wrote:
Dr. Shades wrote:By your logic, the LDS church also had a Young Men's program, so why did it bother with Boy Scouts?

Possibly because of the politics of Robert Baden-Powell....


Are you talking about his racism, repressed homosexuality, or anti-masturbation stance?

- Doc
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