The Latest Breaking News from the Boy Scouts

Victims of Boy Scouts abuse are seeing small payouts in settlement claims: ‘It’s just like we’re getting abused all over again’

The Boy Scouts of America filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2024

The Independent UK · Sep 3

I was abused as a child – and thought I had healed. Then I began drinking in lockdown

Decades after being sexually abused, the author and doctor Frank Spinelli believed he had moved on emotionally. But alcohol destroyed his sense of security. He describes how he confronted his shame

The Guardian - UK · Aug 18

Complaint seeks answers on Scouting America's transgender policy after Pentagon deal

A gay rights activist is suing the Defense Department to answer a simple question: Did Scouting America actually ban transgender members in a deal with the Pentagon

The Independent UK · Jun 26

Takeaways from AP's report about the importance of faith-based support for Scouting America

For the Boy Scouts of America — renamed Scouting America — recent years have been challenging

The Independent UK · Sep 17, 2025

Despite past challenges, Scouting America stabilizes with support from faith-based units

For the Boy Scouts of America — recently renamed Scouting America — the past 12 years have been challenging

The Independent UK · Sep 17, 2025

Religious Hiring and Expressive Association

Does the First Amendment freedom of expressive association protect religious hiring?

Reason · Aug 7, 2025

Dean Treanor and Georgetown's First Amendment rights

Dean Treanor is right to assert Georgetown's First Amendment right to "teach DEI" in the face of Trump Administration threats.

Reason · Mar 18, 2025

Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action — Part 2

Continuing my serial blogging on whether private universities can use a Boy Scouts expressive association theory to have race-based affirmative action.

Reason · Mar 3, 2025

Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action — Part 1

Maybe some universities can continue to do race-based affirmative action, even after SFFA v. Harvard.

Reason · Feb 28, 2025

How ‘muscular Christianity’ strove to bring men back to religion – and what it can teach us today

Most people recognise organisations such as the YMCA and the Boy Scouts, or events such as the Modern Olympic Games, summer camps and wilderness retreats.

The Conversation · Feb 28, 2025