[enraged_camel]

>>> The Scouts are a great organization on a local level... > However, the BSA at a national level is a pretty awful organization.

Note that the BSA is not unique in this regard.

At the local level, people genuinely care about the sense of community enabled by the organization.

Whereas at the national level, the only thing people care about is politics. And politics attracts all kinds of assholes.

[jlgreco]

It is not run the mill asshole politics, it is rather extreme bigotry. For a long period of time they maintained that gay people could not be troop leaders because gay people were likely child molesters. If I understand correctly, they actually still believe this.

[homosaur]

Yes, BSA believes this while ignoring things like this: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ex-cop-s...

This was in my hometown.

This fat fucking sack of subhuman dogshit was also a resource officer at the school and the interim chief of police. When he was the resource officer at my high school, everyone called him "Baby Huey."

The reference, for those that aren't over the age of 60 in the US: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkkTbOs6pmA