A Boy Scout is TRUSTWORTHY . . . (Scouts LIED about black membership)

[Bluebear]

ATLANTA - An independent investigation of the Atlanta-area Boy Scouts found that the organization inflated its number of black Scouts by more than 5,000 in a program for inner-city youth.

The executive director of the Atlanta Boy Scouts resigned after the report was released.

Auditors said Scout officials assigned to inner-city areas may have felt pressure to demonstrate membership growth, which is a part of their performance evaluations. Membership numbers also are used to help determined funding from the United Way, a major Scouts donor.

The audit found that former Scouts too old to participate remained on the memberships lists and that boys who had only attended informational meetings about the program were signed up.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050531/ap_on_re_us/boy_scouts_blacks

[Bluebear]

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[immoderate]

2. My scouting experience was wonderful!

Too bad what happened to them.

Just as an ironic aside:

1. There was no shortage of gays in the scouts when I belonged. Though it was covert and I only realized it later, some fine scouts and leaders were gay.
   
2. I belonged to two great troops. The first was extremely well run. But, being sponsored by a religious institution, there was just too much religion for some of us. We splintered off and formed a secular version of the original. We were lucky to have the participation of a group of fathers, mostly WWII vets who knew how to rough it, and had other skills and resources.

I can't support the scouts like I used to because of their discrimination. I used to be a merit badge counselor.

--IMM