June 2018

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Liberal Media Helped Corrupt and Kill The Traditional Boy Scouts of America


A once great American institution, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), went co-ed this year and in May it officially changed its name to Scouts BSA. The “boy” part, the masculine identifier is gone. An iconic organization that started in 1910, led by men to train boys to be men doing their duty to God and country is effectively no more.

It has been corrupted and transformed into another liberal social incubator to instill left-wing ideology in the minds of America’s youth, our future leaders. This has happened rapidly over the last 18 years and with the untiring help of the liberal media.

Because of constant attacks from activists and the liberal media, the once iconic organization that started in 1910, led by men to train boys to be men doing their duty to God and country is effectively no more.

The leftist press — taking its cues from gay activists, radical feminists, and the corporations that kowtow to them — have attacked the Boy Scouts at every turn. In the last five years alone, the Scouts morphed from a traditionally father-son, God-fearing, “morally straight” organization to one that accepts — and promotes! — openly gay scouts, openly gay scout leaders, transgender scouts, and now girls, including lesbians and any other genders the left cares to invent. 

It’s not your father’s Boy Scouts anymore, and you can thank the liberal media for that. Let’s look at what they did.

For decades, activists had pressured the BSA to let openly gay men join the organization. Based on its Judeo-Christian morality, the BSA said no. The issue went to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000 and the court sided with the Scouts, ruling they could set their own membership policy.

Then the liberal media pulled out their knives, as the MRC documented and exposed. ABC’s Peter Jennings labeled the BSA policy an “embarrassment.” CBS’s Bryant Gumbel was caught on tape calling a social conservative a “f***ing idiot” for defending the Scouts. In 2001, PBS used taxpayer money to produce a pro-gay, anti-Scout documentary, “Scouts Honor.” The New York Times dutifully described the Scouts as “discriminatory.” 

In 2012, the liberal media ratcheted-up their attacks. CNN, for instance, gave multiple softball interviews to a lesbian Cub Scout den mother who had been removed from the den. CNN also interviewed the woman’s seven-year-old son, asking, “Do you think it’s cool to have two mommies?” 

CNN’s Carol Costello wondered, “The world is changing. Will the Boy Scouts change with it?” 

When Family Research Council President Tony Perkins was on CNN and asked why the BSA should change its policy, anchor Soledad O’Brien screeched, “Because it’s discriminatory!” She then asked Perkins, “Do you worry you are on the wrong side of history on this?” 

O’Brien also illogically compared the Scouts’ anti-gay policy to the military’s World War II racial segregation, a popular straw man with the left. CNN’s Costello grilled Frank Page of the Southern  Baptist Convention, “What about ‘love thy neighbor’? Do you love your gay neighbor?” 

In 2013, the BSA – because of a decline in corporate support and endless media attacks — gave in. They ended their 113-year-old ban against openly homosexual scouts. The Washington Post’s Petula Dvorak cheered, “Welcome to this century, Scouts.”

ABC, NBC, and CBS hailed the “historic change.” But they also complained that it didn’t go far enough because gay Scout adult leaders were still excluded. NBC’s Pete Williams allowed fellow homosexual James Dale to lecture on-air, “The Boy Scouts have to make sure that they’re teaching America and they’re in step with American values of equality and not discriminating.”

The attacks continued. In 2014, the Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC, ended its funding of the BSA. The Daily Beast applauded, trumpeting that “word travels fast when you maintain anti-gay policies.”

In 2015, the Scouts caved again and announced that openly homosexual men could join. The leftist press cheered. Slate’s Mike DeSocio called the change “a huge step forward” and ominously added, “the BSA has a unique opportunity to shape the minds of our nation’s youth, and we must do so carefully and purposefully.”

Again, the activists and the press were not satisfied. In 2015-16, the left demanded that girls and transgenders be allowed in the Scouts. CBS This Morning and the AP, to oblige, peddled the story of 8-year-old Jodi who had “transformed” into “Joe” and wanted to join the Scouts. 

“Joe” sued the BSA and the Scouts surrendered in December 2016. The group confessed, “We realize that referring to birth certificates as the reference point is no longer sufficient…. State laws are now interpreting gender identity differently.” 

CBS and NBC were giddy: “The new transgender policy is groundbreaking.” 

In October 2017, the BSA announced it would start accepting girls in 2018. In May, it was reported that more than 3,000 girls had joined the Cub Scouts. The Scouts BSA program for older girls is being developed. 

A week after the group announced its new name, the Mormon Church declared it was ending its 100-year association with the Scouts. About 425,000 Mormon boys are leaving the BSA to join a new organization set up by their church. 

Since the activist and liberal media onslaught, BSA membership has fallen from 4 million to 2 million. Revenues have also declined. The leftist press has made the BSA so inclusive that millions of parents have dropped out. They dealt a death blow to the Boy Scouts, a once iconic American institution. It’s fading fast and will never come back. 

The liberal media undeniably are poisonous. They can permanently harm the country. Every day, the MRC battles against these radicals. We document, expose, and neutralize it. You can join in this fight by making a donation to the MRC. 

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