Category: when BSA screws up

The Order of the Arrow, a weird, racist, secret society in Scouting America (SA), is self immolating. Despite increasing scrutiny over its 109 years of mockery of American Indians, OA clings to racist playing-Indian activities. Its recent pattern is to express interest in correcting its sins, only to take de minimis measures unguided by strategy.…

Boy Scouts of America recently chose a new name, Scouting America (SA). This will be a doing-business-as arrangement (DBA), so the underlying corporate name says the same. SA means sexual assault. With its new name, BSA spotlights its devastating past. That past is why it just made a $2.4 billion bankruptcy settlement. BSA’s marketers ham-fistedly…

The Order of the Arrow’s core ceremonies–the call outs and inductions–are pretendian parodies of American Indians and their culture. The USA has a racist legacy of destroying American Indian tribes with forced Westernization. While that failed, OA’s core ceremonies celebrate the racist legacy’s goal: a dystopia with fully debased tribes, with nobody to own tribal…

BSA’s Summit Bechtel Reserve (SBR) is a fantastic spot for quadrennial Jamborees. It has a dark side. Protecting BSA’s bigotry is its raison d’etre. With program revenue a tiny fraction of expectations and staggering debt, it’s worth less than zero and is a major fiscal strain on BSA’s fragile national organization. BSA has never shared…

BSA uses its Declaration of Religious Principle (DRP) to bar atheists and agnostics. This graceless, bigoted policy is offensive to the core of Christianity. Jesus’s words and deeds command Christians to radical grace, compassion, and inclusion. Those are the opposite of BSA’s Declaration. Those who follow Jesus cannot support a policy of excluding those who…

Roger Mosby turned BSA into a risk-management and fundraising organization.

BSA’s leadership vacuum comes form decades of careerist-bureaucrat CEOs.

BSA mocks Native Americans and parodies tribal customs.

Time to cancel NESA?