When I was a boy, scouting was about building character, honoring God and country, and teaching life skills to young men. Sadly, the board of directors voting to cave in to political and legal pressures of the current era seem to have forgotten the portion of the oath pertaining to honor. It would have been better to lock the doors and send the boys home, letting the organization pass into the scrapbooks of history with honor intact, than to do what has now been done.