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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

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

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

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Scouting America to reinstate ban on trans children to appease Pentagon

Former Boy Scouts cave to Pete Hegseth as he laments move from ‘focus on God as the ruler of the universe’

The Guardian - US

Hegseth says Boy Scouts agreed to his ‘Back to Basics’ demands over DEI and transgender — and will add a new merit badge

Secretary Hegseth has accused Scouting America of losing their way since allowing girls and LGBTQ+ boys to join

The Independent UK

Pentagon threatens to pull military support from Boy Scouts unless they restore ‘core values’

In November, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth expressed opposition to Scouting America’s ‘attack on boy-friendly spaces’

The Independent UK

Hegseth’s Pentagon ready to cut ties with the Boy Scouts over perceived wokeness and ‘attacking boy-friendly spaces’

Navy Secretary John Phelan reportedly said the proposal could be ‘too restrictive’

The Independent UK

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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

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

Religious Hiring and Expressive Association

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

Reason

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

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

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

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.

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Reason

Private Voluntary Bar Association Has First Amendment Right to Discriminate Based on Race, Sex, Sexual Orientation

Dec. 20's N.J. appellate court decision in Saadeh v. N.J. State Bar Ass'n (opinion by Judge Allison Accurso, joined by… The post Private Voluntary Bar Association Has First Amendment Right to Discriminate Based on Race, Sex, Sexual Orientation appeared first on Reason.com.

The Guardian - US

Two inveterate US clergy abusers preyed on same victim in New Orleans

Legal records show Lawrence Hecker and Gilbert Gauthe targeted the same altar boy in 1970s before later being convicted of other crimes

The Independent UK

Boy Scouts sell off famed Norman Rockwell paintings and earn $3.7m to compensate sex abuse victims

The Boy Scouts filed for bankruptcy in 2020 and auctioning off the art is a bid to survive the barrage of sexual abuse claims

The Independent UK

The Boy Scouts inspired Norman Rockwell. His works will now help pay abuse survivors

Works from the Boy Scouts of America's art collection, including some paintings by Norman Rockwell, will go up for auction to help compensate tens of thousands of people, mainly men, who were sexually abused while in scouting

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Family Sues Boy Scouts for $10 Million, Allege Employees Led to Child's Jet Ski Death

Parents of a 10-year-old boy are suing the Boy Scouts after they allege employees of the group were negligent and led to their son dying in a jet ski collision.

WEKU

TikTok sues federal government over free speech; U.S. pauses an Israel bomb shipment

TikTok is challenging a new law that would ban the app if it doesn't find a buyer, citing free speech supression. The U.S. paused a shipment of bombs to Israel over fears they could be used in Rafah.

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US Supreme Court Allows .46B Boy Scouts Settlement

US Supreme Court decision allows .46 billion Boy Scouts sex abuse settlement to proceed, providing compensation for victims.

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"In five years the music industry will be viewed the same way as the Catholic Church or the Boy Scouts - a powerful force that also enabled and shielded sexual predators for decades": Anti-Flag’s Justin Sane sued for sexual assault

Anti-Flag frontman Justin Sane is being sued for sexual assault

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