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9 in 10 Scouts are Open to violating the Scout Oath

March 17, 2008 |

What happens when you don’t instill in children virtue and integrity? You are more likely to instill  values that find these common denominator. It results in values of cheating, experimenting in the basest of human desire. The Scouts once known for a scout is “trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, cheerful, thrift, brave, clean and reverent” may find that new words better describe the newest generation.

Scouts and Girl Guides are open to pre-marital sex, drugs and gay experiences, according to a new survey.

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About 50pc of those surveyed said they would commit adultery

More than 2,500 Scouts from across Europe, aged between 16 and 22, were questioned by researchers as they attended a convention in Italy.

The results might have surprised Lord Baden-Powell, who founded the Scouting and Guiding movement more than a century ago.

The movement bars homosexuals from its ranks, but one quarter of the girls and 12 per cent of the boys said they would consider a same-sex experience.

More than 80 per cent said they were happy to get drunk and almost half said they would smoke marijuana if offered.

Nine out of 10 Scouts and Guides said they expected to have sex before they got married, and almost half said they would be happy to commit adultery.

“There was an open-mindedness about breaking the rules that is common among young people,” said a spokesman for the Institute of the Innocents, a government-backed body which conducts research into children and families, and which compiled the results.


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  1. King on March 17, 2008 10:49 am

    I got to admit… as a scout my troop was pretty bad.

    Got kicked out of Jamboree for pulling pther troop tent stakes and putting dish liquid n their water cooler.

    We routinely hazed new kids and pulled some pretty good stunts. Wiped poison ivy on persons underwear, melt a persons boots together by the campfire, when sleeping - took them & sleeping bag and locked them out of cabin, etc. Yes there were also times when we got older that we would sneak a few beers to camp outs in our back packs, and even smoked.

    Our troop met at the corner church that sat up on a hill overlooking a commonly used road. Come winter many snowballs were thrown at cars and people walking. We would have a guy shimmy up a little alcove to the top of the church to be a watch out if cars turned around to come back. Occasionally they did and if we got caught our scoutmaster would crack the crap out of all of us.

    When we pulled our other above listed stunts, when & if we got caught - our scoutmaster would crack the shit out of us. Only a few times did he tell our parents on us. We either dealt with the punishment he gave or our parents were told.

    KP duty and/or chopping for our troop and/or another troop (usually the one we did something too), loss of participation in events, camp clean up, garbage duty, etc. To say the least he was very creative in finding things for us to do when we screwed up. In the end he always refer to the Scouts Honor and show us right from wrong.

    This taught us two things –

    If you do something wrong there is a price to pay. It also taught us being responsible for our actions.

    Oh one other thing - taught us to be more creative in thinking so we would not get caught. BUT under his vigilant eye that rarely happened. Later we found out that our parents knew everything, they trusted him enough and were silently involved in the process.

    I would not have traded those lessons for anything in the world!

    Kids will be kids - they just need guidance to learn from their mistakes.

  2. Phil on March 24, 2008 9:57 pm

    The implication in this article is that it’s a “rule” to not consider a same-sex experience?

    Perhaps the scouts are a little less ignorant than their leadership?

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