Scouts sell off camps under strain from
sex abuse suits
Associated Press,
by
Pat Eaton-Robb
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
6/4/2022 9:16:58 AM
KILLINGWORTH, Conn. — As the financially struggling Boy Scouts sell off a number of campgrounds, conservationists, government officials and others are scrambling to find ways to preserve them as open space. A $2.6 billion proposed bankruptcy settlement designed to pay thousands of victims of child sexual abuse has added pressure to an organization beset by years of declining enrollment, and the Scouts and their local councils have been cashing in on their extensive holdings, including properties where some of the abuse took place. Developers have bought up some. Preservation groups hope others can be protected and some legislators have taken notice.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
spacer 6/4/2022 9:22:30 AM (No. 1175570)
BSA did it to themselves.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Nashman 6/4/2022 9:29:44 AM (No. 1175577)
Too bad. So sad. What happens when you bow to a minuscule woke minority.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 6/4/2022 9:36:36 AM (No. 1175585)
Eagle Scout here: Reaching deep, looking for sympathy, and I got nothing, NOTHING.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/4/2022 9:41:34 AM (No. 1175592)
When are they going to start on the Catholic Church? I'm sure they hold property a lot more valuable than that of the BSA.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 6/4/2022 9:52:25 AM (No. 1175602)
The Boy Scouts were infiltrated by the homosexual predators and they failed to keep them out. Too complacent, too amateurish, too trusting. And there was a large helping of malice in these lawsuits, many of the lawyers INTENDED to destroy the BSA because they were opposed to their good, Christian political education of young men.
So, between the perverts and the evil leftist lawyers, the BSA has been destroyed. No good deed goes unpunished, as the old saying goes.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
czechlist 6/4/2022 9:55:24 AM (No. 1175606)
Ironic , isn't it?
No defense for the Scouts, the RCC or any other abusers but it seems that "grooming" is in vogue and embraced by a certain political party - what would be the purpose of that movement? Think they want to wait until the age of consent? Guns, alcohol, smokes... age 21; Voting and sexual consent - 16.
Calling Dr. Epstein, STAT!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
sunnyges 6/4/2022 10:04:18 AM (No. 1175611)
Why is BSA being sued for something that is being promoted by the government and taught in schools?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/4/2022 10:05:41 AM (No. 1175614)
Given that years ago the CDC found significantly less than 1% of the population was homosexual, I am skeptical that there were actually thousands of abused scouts. But free money attracts a lot of vultures.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Tusker 6/4/2022 10:08:29 AM (No. 1175617)
Certainly a worthy initiative with which to celebrate Pride Week” and be proud.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Ribicon 6/4/2022 10:21:10 AM (No. 1175636)
Republican stalwart "T. Rex" Tillerson alloed there to be openly homosexual scoutmasters, because deviant sexuality, especially around children, is a core American value.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Sully 6/4/2022 10:35:14 AM (No. 1175656)
So the male Scouts org had a gay pedo problem. The RCC had gay pedo problem. Many young boys were targeted.
If only we could spot a pattern. If only there were some way to predict...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
red1066 6/4/2022 10:36:20 AM (No. 1175661)
I'm with number 8. There were never thousands of cases of abuse. The same with 81 million voting for Biteme. Did abuse take place? Maybe, but from my experience working with scouting, abusing a scout in any form during any scouting activity would be very difficult. Not only are there other adults around, but just keeping control of a bunch of boys aged 12 to 18 is like herding cats. In fact, I received a scout patch as an adult scout leader with a cat on it for doing just that after several camping trips and hikes.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Laotzu 6/4/2022 10:42:06 AM (No. 1175669)
Where are the great industrialists of yesteryear? The Getty's, the Rockefellers, Carnegie? Today's billionaires seem incapable of capturing opportunities like this for real improvement in the physical world. They all talk environmentalist mumbo jumbo, but none come to the table and actually contribute to preservation of opportunities for access to undeveloped land.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
envirodude 6/4/2022 10:49:03 AM (No. 1175673)
I was a scout in the 1970’s. We weren’t as pure as the wind driven snow as scouts want you to believe.
After I got out of college, I was shocked to learn how many of my scout mates were gay.
Which led me to conclude, gays join scouts because it’s where the boys were.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
columba 6/4/2022 11:01:21 AM (No. 1175682)
The purpose of sex is to allow married people to make children. Uses outside of the purpose of sex cause problems.
Use the gift correctly or pay the consequences.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
BarryNo 6/4/2022 11:42:27 AM (No. 1175711)
When BSA failed to follow Christian principles and ideals they failed everyone. The oath became a joke. The troops a stalking ground for perverts.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/4/2022 1:06:12 PM (No. 1175794)
Is that Exxon guy, Tillerson around to speak to the media about this unfortunate turn of events? Rex? Buehler? Anyone?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
smokincol 6/4/2022 1:55:29 PM (No. 1175830)
first, the Catholic Church had to go and now the Boy Scouts of America, the plan is working out very well for the demcommies in the good old USA, on schedule and vividly important
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
SALady 6/4/2022 2:43:48 PM (No. 1175886)
Gee, who could have seen this coming when the Boy Scouts decided to allow sodomite scouts and leaders to have easy access to young normal boys?!?!?!?
Well, besides anyone with more than 6 working brain cells -- which excludes all the lie-berals that demanded the Scouts allow sodomite scouts and leaders...
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 6/4/2022 5:01:29 PM (No. 1176028)
BSA used to be the primary recipient of this Eagle Scout's charitable donations, but that ended when they surrendered to the gay mafia. I knew what was coming. They're paying out big time now for abuse claims, but not with my money.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
TLCary 6/4/2022 5:48:40 PM (No. 1176066)
I was a Den Leader for years, and I believe my efforts did a lot of good for a lot of boys. As soon as Rex Tillerson dictated that we had to allow publicly pronounced perverts into their leadership and tents, I left. There is no BSA without volunteers. If they were going to destroy Scouting, I wasn't going to help them. All the other Leaders disagreed with me. All the other Leaders now realize how right I was. oo bad, if they would have joined me in mass, maybe we could have turned it around instead of watched it die. Sorry Sir Baden-Powell. Sorry Kipling. I tried.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
pensom2 6/4/2022 11:27:30 PM (No. 1176204)
I don't blame the BSA. They changed their position on allowing gay boys to join, and gay leaders to participate with the scouts because they could no longer fund the scores of lawsuits filed by gays who had been refused positions with the scout troops.
When the BSA was held by several courts to be a place of "public accommodation" that could not refuse participation by gays, the handwriting was on the wall. See e.g., 1999 Marquette Law Review, "The Boy Scouts of America as a "Place of Public Accommodation": Developments in State Law," by William F. Grady, https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/mulr/vol83/iss2/6/.
Don't blame the BSA. Blame the culture and the anti-discrimination laws.
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As lawyers enrich themselves these Boy Scout camps will disappear forever.