Hints:
- It’s a world-wide organization.
- It celebrated its 100-year anniversary this week.
- It discriminates against applicants that are gay, agnostic, or atheist.
- A lot of senior members have been convicted of pedophilia. An average of 1 such member is removed for pedophilic activity every other day–that’s 180 every year.
- While it claims the privileges of a private organization, it is glad to accept money from public charities like United Way.
- Of the top twenty sponsors of this group, 9 of them are organized religions.
Be nice to the Boy Scouts. All societies have their good and bad side: some Scouts turn out to be astronauts, scientists, military officers and, yes, Presidents. See I told you good and bad
One need not be a Boy Scout to turn out to be a scientist or such. Why, the Hitler Youth did just fine with Dr. Wernher von Braun.
I remember a line from Vonnegut’s “Happy Birthday, Wanda June”: “‘It’s a very strange kinda kid that does make Eagle Scout. They always seemed so lonesome, like they’d worked real hard to get a job nobody else cared about.’”