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The #BoyScoutsOfAmerica filed for #bankruptcy in 2020 after spending >$150M to settle hundreds of #abuse lawsuits between 2017 & 2019, acc/to court records. In 2022, a federal bankruptcy court in Delaware approved the reorganization plan, clearing the way for the #BSA to reemerge & creating a fund to pay survivors.
#SCOTUS #law #rape #ChildSexCrimes #SexAbuse #pedophilia #BSA
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#SCOTUS on Monday declined to review a $2.4 billion bankruptcy settlement for the #BoyScoutsOfAmerica, rejecting an appeal from a group of #childhood #SexAbuse survivors who said the deal unlawfully blocked them from suing groups that ran local scouting programs.
#law #rape #pedophilia #BSA
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/12/politics/boy-scouts-supreme-court-settlement -
Pete Hegseth, No Boy Scout, Reportedly Wants to Put the “Boy” Back in Scouts – Vanity Fair
A Boy Scouts of America Certificate of Registration from 1959. Robert Alexander / Getty Images.SCOUT’S DISHONOR
Pete Hegseth, No Boy Scout, Reportedly Wants to Put the “Boy” Back in Scouts
The Department of Defense won’t comment to VF on the possibly leaked “predecisional” documents, which would push Congress to cut ties with Scouting America
By Kase Wickman, November 25, 2025
Robert Alexander / Getty Images.Remember the good old days, when men were men and scouts were boys? US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth apparently does, and believes that, in fact, the sun set on those golden days in 2018, when the organization then known as Boy Scouts of America amended its rules to allow girls to join. Things got darker still on February 5, 2025, when the entity officially changed its name to Scouting America.
Hegseth is now reportedly prepared to order the government to cut all ties with the organization, ending a relationship that dates back more than a century.
NPR reported Tuesday that the outlet had received drafts of memos Hegseth intends to send to Congress mandating a severing of ties with Scouting America. Hegseth, who never participated in Boy Scouts, wrote in the draft that the organization now serves to “attack boy-friendly spaces,” accusing the group of being “genderless” and promoting “gender confusion.”
“The organization once endorsed by President Theodore Roosevelt no longer supports the future of American boys,” Hegseth reportedly wrote in a memo.
According to the Scouting America website, “The mission of Scouting America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.”
Hegseth, however, reportedly believes that the group’s mission is to “cultivate masculine values,” per one memo, and that they are failing at it.
When contacted by Vanity Fair for comment, an official from the Department of Defense said, “The Department will not comment on leaked documents that we cannot authenticate and that may be predecisional.” Representatives for Scouting America did not immediately respond to Vanity Fair’s request for further comment.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Pete Hegseth, No Boy Scout, Reportedly Wants to Put the “Boy” Back in Scouts | Vanity Fair
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Scouting America 'surprised and disappointed' after U.S. military threatens to cut ties
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/military-boy-scouts-partnership-ended
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:youtube: #BoyScoutsOfAmerica
🇺🇸 General James N. #Mattis (Retd) provides his opinion and pointers on #Leadership, #russia / #Ukraine and #Scouting, in this fascinating and rapid-paced 25 minute interview full of content, from May 2022
📝 This 25 min interview is also packed with valuable insights into today's situation in #Ukraine
** Not To Be Missed **
https://youtu.be/UFLX1LdhRN4?feature=share #Military #History #News
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"The officers accused of abusing teenagers spanned the ranks, from patrolmen to police chiefs. Some were department veterans cited in news articles for their community work."
Lakeidra Chavis, Daphne Duret, and Joseph Neff for The Marshall Project investigate a #police youth program created by the #BoyScoutsOfAmerica: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/05/01/police-explorer-sexual-abuse-boy-scouts
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"Boy Scouts of America announces new gender-neutral name – and conservatives aren’t taking it well"
I'm happy with this decision. I was a boy scout, in Canada. I don't see why the whole thing needs to be gendered in the first place.
I do support the conservatives' right to boycott the organization. More fun for the rest of us.
#USNews #USPol #FuckingConservatives #Conservatives #BoyScoutsOfAmerica #GenderBinary #GenderNeutral #NoSatire
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/08/boy-scouts-of-america-rebrand/
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CW: Long thread/14
Next up are the #BoyScoutsOfAmerica. Like the Bishops, the Scouts want the Court to remember that the decades of sexual abuse committed by scoutmasters who were protected by the BSA while their victims were marginalized and silenced would have destroyed the Scouts if the victims had been able to get justice. It was only through the magic of the Third-Party Nonconsensual Release that the BSA was able to live on, even decades of unspeakable crimes.
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Let's at least make an attempt here, to make this more scientific than it has been.
Are you a Transgender Eagle Scout?
Please Boost.
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"I'm here to tell you that the organization is still not safe for boys and girls. I am not gonna sit here and be quiet while I know kids are still at risk in scouting."
Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America. Netflix. September 6.
From the documentary film team, including my wife.
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
DONAHUE - 7/12/1991, Syndicated
In this clip, Phil Donahue interviews people fighting the Boy Scouts of America's ban on atheist, agnostic or homosexual scouts and scout leaders, and women scoutmasters.
The gay ex-Scouts seen in this clip are Tim Curran (who had sued the BSA in 1981 over discrimination) and Rob Schwitz (a 20-year-old who was thrown out of both the Boy Scouts and the Air Force ROTC for being gay).
In the 2010s, the Boy Scouts of America finally stopped discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. However, it still bars open atheists from membership. As recently as 2018, the BSA was putting out statements to the effect that atheists are bad citizens.
#BoyScoutsOfAmerica #BoyScouts #scouting #gay #queer #LGBTQ #atheism #atheist
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#BoyScouts’ $2.4 billion bankruptcy plan upheld by judge
A $2.4 billion bankruptcy plan for the #BoyScoutsOfAmerica has been upheld by a federal judge, clearing an important hurdle in the legal challenge by certain insurance companies and dissenting #SexAbuse survivors.
The plan would let the #Texas-based organization keep operating while it compensates tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as children while involved in Scouting.
https://apnews.com/article/boy-scouts-bankruptcy-child-sexual-abuse-f6359f826b98d471c290598573ebc5da
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@ryan you and your kids could get involved in Scouting (aka #ScoutsBSA / #BoyScoutsOfAmerica ). It’s extremely rewarding as an adult and a ton of fun as a kid.
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With one month of summer left, our #BoyScoutsOfAmerica district isn't slowing down even a little! In fact, you can even set sail with Sea Scout Ship 17 while simultaneously earning a merit badge! Read this month's #newsletter for info about where things stand between BSA and the UMC, training opportunities including BALOO, activities like Cub Shooting Sports Day, and the Georgia Master Naturalist program.
https://www.indianspringsbsa.org/newsletter/2022-08-21-newsletter/
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🗞 For anyone in the west #Georgia area, check out what’s happening in the Indian Springs District of #BoyScoutsOfAmerica by way of our May 2022 newsletter
https://www.indianspringsbsa.org/newsletter/2022-05-26-newsletter/
[ #Atlanta #Scouting #CubScouts #ScoutsBSA #BoyScouts ]