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.”

  • jake_jake_jake_@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    They note in the article that all “concessions” were already planned to be implemented. They really didn’t do anything other than give a list of what they already planned to do.