Hyerdahl wrote:
> Boy Scout Scandal Hits Home
>
>
> By Brad Taylor
>
>
>  Posted on: January 26, 2005
>
> The Greater Alabama Boy Scout Council has recently been the target of
> an FBI investigation to determine if the council falsely inflated
> membership numbers in order to receive funding. Several events led up
> to this revelation, including attacks from homosexual activists.

Oh for God's sake.  With all the evil in the world, can't the
homosexual activists of the world find someone better to pursue?  Can't
the frigging FBI find someone else to investigate?  Apparently not, so
intead of looking for hidden AQ cells, they go after .... the Boy
Scouts, as if it were some paramilitary group conspiring to vandalize
the Lincoln Memorial.

> Having grown up in Alabama, I was a Boy Scout under the Tennessee
> Valley Council, part of the Greater Alabama Boy Scout Council. While
I
> never excelled in the program in terms of rank, I greatly enjoyed all
> of our activities and rarely missed a camping trip or troop hike. I

They do a lot of good things for boys.  I wonder if this is why
feminists and their lackeys pursue it so much.

> have fond memories of my scouting experience. Thus, it pains me to
see
> the program embroiled in this most sordid scandal.

And me as well, although this needn't really be a scandal.  See below.

> The scandal is a result of Boy Scout volunteers raising issues with
how
> the membership figures are being reported by the central office. Tom
> Willis, a boy scout volunteer, stated that it appeared someone was
> listing false members to boost enrollment, because 20 scouts on the
[...]
> FBI is investigating because the membership numbers are used to apply
> for federal grants and for United Way funding.

Well here's an earth-shattering idea.  If they apply for funding, and
you think they use untoward application methods, deny them funding and
move on!  How hard is that?  Instead you launch an inquisition that is
very obviously driven by politics.

> Trouble has been brewing for the Boy Scouts, ever since they took a
> stand against allowing homosexual scout leaders a few years ago. My

Indeed.  Apparently, the following has been added to the Bill of
Rights: "Thou shalt not offend any homosexual anywhere."



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