Just to be clear, "morally straight" does not mean "sexually straight".
And yes, "mentally awake" literally means "woke". (Seriously. The scouts have been literally teaching "woke" for over 100 years. It's actually a very progressive organization.)
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Does your son play Rec or Select baseball. My kid plays on a select team and I don't know any team that does no travel at all.
(There just generally aren't enough local tournaments to even make that possible and still fill out a season.)
No overnight trips?
You haven't had a kid in sports yet, huh? (Not that there is anything wrong with that.) Over night trips are generally pretty common for any kid in sports over 6th grade.
What's... better?
So here is all of the Scout is Reverent requirements for Cub Scouts.
What specific lesson can you identify here that you disagree with? (Please actually cite the specific activity you take issue with. Don't just make something up.)
So let's back up.
What specific actual virtue of the Scouting America do you have a problem with?
Here's the scout law to get you started:
A scout is: trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
Which one of these virtues do you want your kids to have? (And for gawd sakes, please read something about what "reverence" means before knee-jerking to that one."
That was literally a nothing announcement. Virtually nothing actually changed about the program.
Literally one merit badge was removed and one elective merit badge was added. That's it. And all of the requirements in that one removed merit badge are repeated in multiple other merit badges, and those other merit badges didn't get charged at all.
I promise you. No one is checking kids birth certificates when they sign up and no child is being turned away from the program.
You are upset about literally nothing because an algorithm on the Internet told you this was something to be upset about.
(I don't understand Lemmy people. Who down votes child protection policies?)
The child protection policies in Scouting America (previously Boy Scouts) are very rigorous today. If a troop or pack today is following the policies there really isn't any opportunity for an adult to abuse a scout. If you are still interested in scouts you should take the scouts Youth Protection Training to learn for yourself the policies. (I'm a Cubmaster and I strongly recommend, practically beg, all my parents to complete the training.)
But the truth is, there is just no youth organization that doesn't have a history with abuse. It's amazing to me that parents that have every reasonable reservation against putting their kids in scouts seem to have no issues with, like, youth sports -which have way more opportunities for child abuse and instances of it.
I didn't understand your disagreement. Yes just like a bar shouldn't be responsible for a person that gets plastered drunk after they leave, Facebook shouldn't be responsible for the actions of a predator that goes to a porn website to lure kids. Just like the Catholic Church shouldn't be responsible for a public school teacher that rapes her students at school. The only times any of these organizations are responsible is when the abuses happen while using their services.
I don't get why this is controversial.
I can't speak for the military's recruiting practices. Yes, I fully agree that the military's recruitment practices are very predatory, and should be reigned in. Politically, I personally think "enlistment" shouldn't be an option at all. It should be random draft. Every year the military should tell Congress how many new recuits they need, and Congress should approve a draft of 18 year olds for that many new recuits. The draft should be random, with no deferments or other ways out of service other than health reasons as determined by a military physician. (But that's way off topic.)
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The Supreme Court literally ruled that racism was over when they overturned the voting rights act.