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1033. Scouting without a Compass! From Meridian Magazine -- shocking!

This article from Meridian Magazine is another reason it is an inspiration for the LDS Church to leave scouting after 2019.

Scouting without a Compass

By United Families International · May 24, 2018
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The advertising for the Scouting event is powerful and enticing. The photos and videos show young people from all over the world at breathtaking locations sharing outdoor adventures together with these words: “ The theme, Unlock a New World… invites you to unlock new adventures, new cultures, and new friendships” as Scouting brings “together the world’s young people to promote peace and mutual understanding and to develop leadership and life skills.” What parent wouldn’t want to provide his or her child such an experience? And since Scouting is always mindful of keeping its young charges safe and protected, you can rest assured knowing your son’s (and, now, daughter’s) every need will be provided for. Maybe a little too much…
A new Guide to Safe Scouting?
When the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) brings its Worldwide Jamboree to the United States in 2019, it will be packing condoms for distribution to the estimated 40,000 young men and women attending the 12 day event in West Virginia. Condom distribution is nothing new at the Worldwide Jamboree. They were available in 2002 at the jamboree held in Thailand, and the handbook from the 2011 jamboree made sure to inform the Scouts about the laws regarding sexual intercourse in Sweden (illegal under the age of 15) and where to obtain condoms (free at the Health Centers or for purchase at a local pharmacy). The availability and distribution of condoms is now mandated for all host organizations of a Worldwide Jamboree. Since Boy Scouts of America will be a cohost for the 2019 event, it is responsible for providing condoms for Scouts wanting to engage in sexual intercourse.
For years, the BSA fought the good fight to keep the mission of Scouting focused on the unique needs of boys with the aim of producing upstanding citizens and men with moral character. In the 1970s there were approximately 6.5 million registered Scouts. Today there are only 2.3 million. That’s down from 2.8 million in 2012. In recent years, hoping to boost its ever-dwindling numbers, BSA has given in to the demands of activists, thereby disaffecting Scouting families and charter organizations, many of which are religious organizations.
An end to Baden-Powell’s dream
Over one hundred years ago, Robert Baden-Powell began the Scouting movement as a means of instilling Christian character in boys and young men. Scouts were taught that they had a “duty to God.” Part of that duty was to serve others and to be “physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight”. In choosing to host a Worldwide Scouting Jamboree, with its mandated enabling of teen hook-ups, BSA has turned a deaf ear to those families that sought out Scouting as a means of training their boys to be men with integrity and virtue who could resist an ever-degraded culture.
While BSA and the Worldwide Organization of the Scout Movement may have lost its way, we cannot and will not. Remember, a Scout is brave and “…smiles and whistles under all circumstances.”

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