Exactly the Point on the Boy Scouts

The closing paragraph of a front-page article by Matt Sheley in Monday’s Newport Daily News (not online) captures exactly the point on the question of girls’ joining the Boy Scouts:

“I was listening to the radio the other day and a young woman was speaking about the changes with the Boy Scouts and she said something like, ‘I go to school with boys, I go to dances with boys, I go to functions with boys, so how is this going to be any different?’,” [Middletown troop leader Jim] Fowler.

That’s exactly the point I made the other day, only with a different inference.  Maybe it’s important for boys to have a space for boys, where they can interact with each other and develop their character without the complications that co-ed activities bring to the interactions of teenagers and young adults.  If the Boy Scouts don’t provide that, then how is scouting fundamentally different from any other activity?

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As our society has moved increasingly toward structured, formalized activities for children, deliberately building such places becomes critical.  If, instead, we allow the radicals to continue deconstructing our society, we’re sure to reap the consequences of refusing to respect human nature, allowing our civilization to work with it, rather than bury it.  Bury enough corpses, and you’ll find you’re building over a future sinkhole.

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