WorldNetDaily has long been resistant to change that challenges its far-right worldview, and the Boy Scouts altering its name was greeted with unsurprising rage. Bob Unruh wrote in a May 7 “news” article:
In what is being viewed by many as a final plunge into wokeness, the Boy Scouts of America has announced a name change.
No longer will the name include “Boys.”
It will be just “Scouting America.” Effective next year.
USA Today reported the organization said its goal is to be more “inclusive.”
To which one social media commenter noted, “What exclusion has there been? There’s ‘The Boy Scouts’ and ‘The Girl Scouts’ … Am I missing something?”
Actually it already was several years ago that the Boy Scouts agreed to allow girls to join, actually drawing a lawsuit from “The Girl Scouts.”
Homosexual youth were allowed to join 2013, and a ban on homosexual leaders ended in 2015. Girls were allowed to join in 2017.
Unruh quoted nobody claiming the name change was the result of “wokeness,” nor did he define what “wokeness” means in this context.
Homophobe Scott Lively predictably blamed the name change on gay people in his May 13 column:
In the Cultural Marxists’ “long march through the institutions,” perhaps their toughest conquest was the Boy Scouts of America. This past week the BSA finally fully succumbed to the life-draining internal parasites with which it was infected 11 years ago after decades of stalwart resistance.
As with so many aspects of the fundamental transformation America has suffered in the 21st century, the turning point in the takedown of the Boy Scouts was an Obama operation – headed by deep-state swamp creature Rex Tillerson with a major assist by then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
The then heavily besieged but unbroken BSA stupidly allowed these men through the front gate and onto its board during Obama’s second term where they internally orchestrated the organization’s entirely unwarranted and unnecessary surrender to LGBT demands – bypassing and neutralizing the impenetrable shield of legal and cultural immunity that had been granted to the BSA by the United States Supreme Court in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000).
[…]I’ve been in the fight to save the Boy Scouts since the early 1990s, when I was working to pass the No Special Rights Act in Oregon and Colorado (as state communications director of it’s drafter, the Oregon Citizens Alliance), which fell short in Oregon but passed as Amendment 2 in Colorado. Amendment 2 prohibited “sexual orientation” from being granted civil rights minority status; a legal slam-dunk based on existing case law. But Kennedy struck A2 down in Romer v. Evans with no constitutional review of its merits on his bare opinion that Colorado voters were motivated by “animus” (hatred) and thus the ballot measure was not a legitimate exercise of governmental authority. (He taught the left in that case that accusations of “hate” would invalidate every conservative initiative – which advise they have since followed scrupulously.)
Lively didn’t explain why LGBT people having the same people as others constituted “special rights.” After recounting previous columns on the subject, one of which blamed the “deep state” for this state of affairs and equating LGBT people to Satan, Lively concluded by ranting: “Based on this week’s news, reaching that openly grooming stage after a decade of increasing degeneracy apparently represented the final death throes of the once venerable institution that taught ‘morally straight’ boys to become virtuous men. RIP, BSA.”
Robert Knight played the “wokeness” card in his May 15 column:
Drag Queen campfire hour is now quite thinkable in some – not all – areas of the country.
Soon, the so-called leaders at the top may be tempted to ditch the word America, as it is still exclusive and smacks of patriotism. As of now, God is still in the Scout oath.
It’s important to remember that not everyone consents to the wokeness, like the aforementioned people still giving their time and talents to Scouting.
Also, a group of far-seeing men and women have created wholesome alternatives.
American Heritage Girls, based in Cincinnati, is a Christian-focused group founded in 1995 by former Girl Scout leader Patti Garibay and others. They saw the Girl Scouts ditching God in the oath and adopting radical feminist ideology.
American Heritage Girls now has chapters in all 50 states and in 15 other countries.
Trail Life USA is a fast-growing lifeboat alongside the sinking Titanic of Boy Scouting. Founded in 2013, it now has 1,000 troops and more than 50,000 members around the country. It’s basically Boy Scouting – camping, awards, skills – without the wokeness and with an extra measure of faith.
[…]The Scouts have always been a pipeline to the armed forces. As Scouting has cratered, so has recruitment into our woke military. This makes many Americans anxious, but not the rulers in Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. They are very happy.
Somewhere, somehow, these despots are giving a pat on the head to the late Hugh Hefner, the ACLU, George Soros and others that helped birth America’s cultural suicide.
The answer to all this is a full-scale resistance to the forces that seek to fundamentally transform America into a Marxist version of Sodom and Gomorrah.
More and more people seem to be awakening against wokeness.
As for my beloved Boy Scouts, which served me well when I was a boy, and still serve the faithful who remain true to the oath, let’s sadly open one of those handy, multiple-tool jackknives and find the fork.
If nothing changes to reverse the tide toward wokeness, it might come in handy.
Despite all those copious references to “wokeness,” Knight never once defined what it means.
Larry Tomczak used is May 28 column to blame the devil — and LGBT people, whom he equates to the devil — for the name change:
Bible-believing Christians understand the dark spiritual forces behind the collapse of the 114-year-old Boy Scouts of America. Beelzebub (“ruler of the demons” [Matt. 12:24]) orchestrated his “woke” strategy, and now the tottering organization hangs by a thread, rebranding itself as “Scouting America.”
In 1972, when America’s population was about 200 million, there were 5 million Boy Scouts. In 2024, with our population at 336 million, there should be at least 8 million. But BSA has plummeted to 1 million, and 176,000 are girls!
“Gay Pride” kicks off in June. LGBTQ activists formerly told us “Just give us a day.” Then it was, “We want a week!” Then, “Mandate a month!” (along with presidential proclamations, promotions, parades and programs) celebrating homosexuality nationwide and targeting children and youth. As iconic “Sesame Street” introduced two gay dads for the kids and Nickelodeon put on a drag queen reading to preschoolers, LGBTQ activists now celebrate the totally “gay affirming” Scouting America and its new image.
Tomczak tried to justify his raging homophobia by claiming the Bible endorses his hate:
Once executives “woke” to the “progressive” vision of being “gay affirming” and “inclusive,” God’s blessing lifted. The floodgates opened. Severe repercussions flooded in as BSA officially endorsed a lifestyle Scripture calls “moral impurity, degrading, shameless, indecent and unnatural” (Romans 1:24-27).
This is not bigotry – it is Bible. It’s not politically correct, but it puts first God’s design for men and women, marriage and family. For those struggling with and confused with same-sex temptation, God’s remedy is available to all through repentance and His redeeming grace.
[…]The Boy Scout Oath recited for a century states: “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 [emphasis mine].
The time has come for BSA executives to repent for compromise and return to their mission. Their terribly tarnished reputation may be beyond restoration at this point, but there is a chance if they turn around and honor God and the original values that anchored them for a century.
Tomczak, of course, believes it’s “morally straight” to viciously hate LGBT people.