Keep The Boyscouts

Posted on October 16, 2005

The two monster hurricanes smacking our shores recently should reminds us that, sooner or later, conflicts or disasters make survival too much the issue for certain pointy-headed philosophical debates to matter, and we simply need disciplined leaders of grace and grit.

So we’d best be preserving the Boy Scouts. Why trouble ourselves about the Scouts now, you ask? Because discipline, grace, grit, skills and morality are the special stuff of the training ground that is Scouting. And this hallowed institution is currently suffering ungodly persecution from an organization that professes to “protect civil liberties.”

I was a Boy Scout. Even before that, growing up in Nashville, I was a Cub Scout. So was my brother Nick. Mama was a den mother, and my two sisters were Brownie scouts. Daddy participated when and how he could, helping us kids earn our merit badges and always being at every event to cheer us on and let us know he was proud of us.

Can I describe what the Scouting experience meant in the shaping of my whole life and personality, my sense of duty, priority and self-esteem? Those few fleeting years emerge in the panorama of my memories as among the most precious and valuable of all. I truly believe I would be a lesser man today if the institution of Scouting had not been in my boyhood.

Remember the Scout Oath?

On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout Law;

To help other people at all times;

To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.

That’s it. Simple, huh? A pretty good credo for a young person, wouldn’t you say? If a young boy or girl, at a very impressionable time in life, is motivated to try to live up to and employ these guidelines, the result should be a clean-living, courteous, responsible adult. What every community and every parent hopes for. Right?

Not according to the ACLU legalists (known increasingly as “The Devil’s Advocates”) who have carried on a relentless campaign to reshape, and to impose their idea of political correctness upon, the private, venerable Boy Scouts of America. They want to force the BSA to welcome professing homosexuals and even to recruit gay Scout leaders. They’d also like to erase the mention of “duty to God,” since not every boy necessarily believes in God, and a few have even been taught not to.

By the way, among the vast array of notables who have benefited from their old-fashioned Scout experiences and publicly attested to it, you can count Steven Spielberg, Bill Gates and Sam Walton; add in Hank Aaron, Bruce Jenner, Nolan Ryan and astronaut Sally Ride. And then ask yourself … any of the ACLU’s darlings in there anywhere? Why, do you suppose?

In the parlance of warfare, the ACLU is waging more than just a battle; it is waging a campaign. Since 1981, it has participated in at least 14 cases against the Boy Scouts, amounting to 89 years’ worth of court proceedings so far. Tactically brilliant at it by now, the ACLU has argued here that the Scouts are a religious organization and there that the Boy Scouts believe too little to qualify for First Amendment religious protection from governmental intrusion. It has learned that merely threatening to sue an institution or an arm of government does often work to “blackmail” officials into complying with its demands.Read it all

Look folks, the old saying is as true today as ever: “Our children are our future.” Will we let our future be molded by the ACLU and its terrorist sympathizing ways? Or will we help mold our own future by fighting to protect the moral integrity our children grow up in? No matter which one we do, it will be the next generation that determines the future direction America goes in. If the influence of the ACLU takes hold, I fear we will be diving into even more immoral and dangerous times. Can we reverse the politically correct trend we are headed in? Only if we stop sitting on our hands, and start fighting for what we believe in! America’s future is being molded in the now! Do something about it!

Keep The Boyscouts

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