The Boy Scouts Will Begin Accepting Girls Next Year

There’s Boy Scouts and there’s Girl Scouts. One’s for boys (they sell popcorn) and one’s for girls (they sell cookies laced with crack.) Seems simple enough to me.

NOT SO FAST! Some little girls wish they were boys, and “gender is a construct” or whatever, so now it’s GENDERLESS SCOUTS…..or something.

Yup, we’ve come to this, folks.

As reported by ABC:

The Boy Scouts of America will soon begin accepting girls.

 

The Boy Scouts of America Board of Directors announced its unanimous decision that they said comes after years of receiving requests from girls of all ages to join the iconic organization.

 

“This decision is true to the BSA’s mission and core values outlined in the Scout Oath and Law. The values of Scouting – trustworthy, loyal, helpful, kind, brave and reverent, for example – are important for both young men and women,” the BSA’s Chief Scout Executive Michael Surbaugh said. “We believe it is critical to evolve how our programs meet the needs of families interested in positive and lifelong experiences for their children. We strive to bring what our organization does best – developing character and leadership for young people – to as many families and youth as possible as we help shape the next generation of leaders.”

 

Recent surveys of parents involved in scouting show over 90 percent wanted their daughters to join the Boy Scouts, according to a press release on the BSA’s website.

 

“The BSA’s record of producing leaders with high character and integrity is amazing” BSA’s national board chairman Randall Stephenson said. “I’ve seen nothing that develops leadership skills and discipline like this organization. It is time to make these outstanding leadership development programs

available to girls.”

 

The changes will take effect in the 2018 program year, according to the BSA.

Girls will be able to enter scouting at the rank of Cub Scout and progress all the way to Eagle Scout.

 

Nearly 2.3 million boys between the ages of seven and 21 are currently active in scouting, according to the BSA.

“Recent surveys of parents involved in scouting show over 90 percent wanted their daughters to join the Boy Scouts, according to a press release on the BSA’s website.” I have a legitimately hard time believing that…. unless it’s 90% of the liberal parents we chose to ask want their daughters to join the Boy Scouts.

Can’t they join Girl Scouts? Isn’t that the point?

Do any of y’all have sons in Boy Scouts? How do YOU feel about this? Are you that “90%”?

PS I used that picture so we could all reminisce about the good ol’ days when everyone’s A$$ was stick-free.