After threatening to sever ties with Scouting America and kick the youth group off military bases worldwide, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday gave a six-month reprieve to the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America.

Hegseth made the announcement in a video posted to X, framing it as an ultimatum to Scouting to conform to the Trump administration’s anti-DEI agenda. He detailed his many criticisms of the group, saying Scouts had “lost their way” by changing the organization’s name and “watering down” what he called “the focus on God as the ruler of the universe.”

He accused the Scouts of promoting “an insidious, radical, woke ideology that is anti-America and anti-American.”

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I wonder if this stupid Faux News host has ever even bothered to learn anything at all about the Scouts and their principles.

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      20 minutes ago

      I have received information from our sponsors that the Scouts’ rules have changed. We now have one rule, and one rule only! Absolute and unquestioning loyalty to Donald J Trump! This goes double when he summons you to Mar a Lago for an interview.