I don’t think the scouts in the US started as religious (or at least not strongly religious), but there was plenty of molestation going on even back then. Or maybe I’m not remembering everything correctly–it’s been awhile since I listened to the Behind the Bastards episodes on it
I don’t think the scouts in the US started as religious (or at least not strongly religious), but there was plenty of molestation going on even back then. Or maybe I’m not remembering everything correctly–it’s been awhile since I listened to the Behind the Bastards episodes on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT2xoNCWd10
It was started by Baden Powell in the UK. He wrote a book called “scouting for boys”. A lot of scoutmasters took that literally.