Boy Scouts

We the undersigned ask the Boy Scouts of America to release a statement recognizing that it will stay true to its spirit as a national organization.

Dear MoveOn member,

During his address to the 2017 National Scouting Jamboree, Donald Trump delivered a highly politicized and divisive speech that is against the patriotic spirit of the Boy Scouts of America.¹

Will you join me in demanding that the Boy Scouts of America stand by its values and honor by denouncing Trump's jamboree speech that was filled with explicitly partisan rhetoric?

We the undersigned ask the Boy Scouts of America to release a statement recognizing that it will stay true to its spirit as a national organization where efforts are made for all to feel welcome and that the explicitly partisan rhetoric of Donald Trump's speech, such as encouraging "boo's" of his predecessor, was wrong.

I am a proud Eagle Scout who was an active Scout for twelve years, from Tiger Scouting through Cub Scouting and into Boy Scouting. As someone with different political values than the current president, I found his remarks at the Jamboree to be alienating and the use of the Boy Scouts as a prop by him to be dispiriting.

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—Michael Fox

Source:

1. "Donald Trump's political jamboree," CNN, July 25, 2017
http://act.moveon.org/go/11452?t=17&akid=186892%2E10220574%2E3MokXo

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