Does it Take A Village?

I’m sorry but when I hear the phrase “It takes a village” I have to really stop and think hard about what is being said. Does it really take a village to raise your children to do right, to not bully, to respect their peers? My thoughts on this subject are, and a lot of people agree with me, is this: when we have the right family structure in the home our kids will not do a lot of these things they are doing now. The problem is we have had the village and our government raising our children for some time and where has that taken us. We always want to create new programs. Put forth new ideas, when the answer is already given to us. For the most part, there is no family structure in this country. No fathers to guide the kids the right way. When there are family structure and guidance in the home we had very few of these problems. It is the family unit that makes or breaks our kids. Now we have homes with no fathers, no guidance, no structure and the outcome of this is shootings in school, bullying, the lack of proper dress, and disrespect for the school teachers, and the list goes on. Lastly, I read nothing about spiritual guidance, something many do not want to talk about. There is a saying “The family that prays together stays together.” How true that is. I was raised in a small village in Caroline County called Harmony and there were many good people who lived there, who I respected and looked up to, but they did not raise me, my parents did. The village did not raise the kids, the parents did. The village had the boy scouts, Church functions for kids and the family, softball teams, and the like, but the parents raised and disciplined their children. It was the structure and the building blocks of the families that made Harmony a great village. Until we have structure, discipline, spiritual values, and most of all love in the family home we will continue to have the types of problems we see today. Not the government or the village, nor psychology, are needed to raise our kids. It has never worked and never will work. From the very beginning of time, it was the parents (the family unit) who raised the kids, not a village. 

The Politically Correct Boy Scouts

The national leaders in charge of the rules and regulations for Boy Scouts of America, voted yes, in May of this year, to allow the membership of openly gay Boy Scouts. They can now come out of the closet. Professor Beth Galley said, “It brings the Boy Scouts back into the mainstream of America.” In other words it now makes the Boy Scouts Politically correct in the country that we live in. But in fact this ruling will destroy the Boy Scouts as an effective moral compass for our youth. Just like giving condoms and birth control pills to children will destroy their moral compass. What is really going on here is there are people in this country that wants to get rid of God and His biblical standards. They have succeeded in our government, most churches, and many other groups. 

Scouting is a private organization that has been around for at least a hundred years. It teaches young men a standard of living, a belief system and a moral compass to live by. I remember when I was in the scouts and at that time it was a place where parents could send their young men to learn moral and spiritual values plus many other earthly values that would help them as they grew older to become a good moral fiber in our society. Because of the latest ruling from the leaders of the scouts those things are now going to go down the drain. Another victory for the politically correct crowd that it seems is trying to dominate our culture and to do away with God’s standards.

Now as a direct result of the pressure from activists of the gay community, the Boy Scouts have lowered and changed their mission statement. The Boy Scout oath of “On my honor, I will do my best to keep myself physically strong, mentally alert and morally straight.” On my honor, mentally alert and morally straight are strong words with high standards and keep values high. What will happen now?

The Boy Scout’s national committee said, “The organization will not sacrifice its mission and allow the organization to be consumed by a diverse and unresolved societal issue.” I’m sorry but that's precisely what has happened. As a society this country, for the most part has started to change the meaning of words today to meet the needs of being politically correct, doing away with many years of living by God’s standards and His moral compass. As I remember Boy Scouting stood for something; but let me say this, when you change your standards, you will stand for nothing. The Scouts, as well as the people of this country, need to lift up a standard.

Changing and twisting the rules, giving a new definition of words, which are the core of Scouting, is wrong! Boy Scouting will never be the same as it once was! The Scouts at one time was a mark of excellence! This country is no longer at a cross road. The country has chosen to take the broad road of destruction.