The Boy Scouts of America announced after 114 years that it will change its name and will become “Scouting America.” This is an apparent effort to run from bankruptcy, falling membership, masculinity, and restrictive morality. The new organization will welcome girls, homosexual leaders, and homosexual boys.
What will the new organization do with the Scout Law? Especially the requirement to model reverence before God? The organization was founded to be a preserve of training in manhood, virtue and male responsibility. That emphasis began to dissipate in the 1960s along with the demoralization of boys in the government school classroom.
The old Scout Law: "A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent."
As plague hysteria begins spreading across headlines around the world, there is one detail almost nobody is talking about: governments and military biodefense programs have already poured major resources into developing dozens of plague vaccines.
More than 21 plague-vaccine candidates are under development, spanning mRNA, self-amplifying RNA, recombinant protein, viral-vector, live-attenuated and other technologies.
--- Nicholas Hulscher