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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 369.430973
EAN: 9780805431803
ISBN: 0805431802
Label: B&H Publishing Group
Manufacturer: B&H Publishing Group
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 196
Publication Date: July 15, 2005
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Sales Rank: 264303
Studio: B&H Publishing Group
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Hans Zeiger may represent the hope for the future. He is not the typical postmodern young twenty something. You don't see his type portrayed on The Real World on MTV. But he isn't alone. He is part of a movement that is alive and well-and thriving.
Nineteen-year-old Hans is a Boy Scout. More specifically, he is an Eagle Scout. And he is tired of the attack on the Boy Scouts by those who would like to see it assimilated into the politically correct culture that dominates many of our nation's institutions. Get Off My Honor! analyzes a half-century of events leading up to the present struggle for the soul of the Boy Scouts. Hans shows how those who wish to destroy the scouts are attacking it for what it represents at its core-Christian values. With biting commentary, Zeiger paints a picture in which the Boy Scouts have been spat upon and cursed by its critics. Groups as diverse as the United Way, ecumenical church denominations, unions, educational and medical organiztions, judges, members of the Clinton administration, and left-wing activists have labeled the Boy Scouts as bigots and homophobes. Hans Zeiger is ready to let the world know the truth about scouting and the truth behind those who wish to destroy it.
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Rating:  - People need to get a life and get off the Boy Scouts!!
I bought this book for my husband and he loves this one also. He can't believe some of the attacks on the boy scouts. He is only half way through and he loves it. Some people just need to get a life and leave the Boy Scouts alone. Just a thought: This is the only guidance that some of these boys get, being raised by a single parent or grandparents. The Boy Scouts ROCK!!
Rating: - Great Reading
Every scouter should read this book.If we don't speak out for what's right. We will have no scouting or any youth program . Loose the youth,we loose the country.
Rating:  - Hans = Bigot
The scouts need to be freed from idealogical idiots like the one who wrote this book.
Rating: - Assaulting America's Mainstream Values
Lt. Col. Oliver North's foreword to Zeiger's book says the Boy Scouts have come under fire for promoting "what many of us euphemistically call traditional values." (p.vii).
Euphemistically???
North's choice of words inadvertently reveals what he and other "social conservatives" obviously know in their hearts -- that the Boy Scouts of America's current campaign against gay youth and religious liberals is grounded in something other than America's proudest traditions and values. Hans Zeiger removes any doubt, by launching a spiteful attack not just on religious liberals, but on the American mainstream's respect for religious pluralism and the rights of minorities.
Zeiger denounces as "superficial" the values "espoused from the mainstream pulpits," for example, charging that "Christian churches are largely to blame" for destroying "manly virtue" with a "gutless ecumenism." (pp. 40, 56). Zeiger apparently prefers sectarian strife to the loving acceptance of our neighbors that Jesus preached.
Zeiger lauds the BSA's adoption of policies hostile to the values of religious liberals in particular. "At the beginning of American Scouting," Zeiger acknowledges, "progressive Social Gospel churches were among the biggest supporters of the movement." (p. 147). Zeiger oozes contempt for what he calls the "sissified, watered-down Social Gospel" of churches that originally fostered Scouting. (p. 147).
As it happens, the BSA was launched ... Read More
Rating: - A Standard of Truth in the Fight Against the Moral Decline of Our Youth.
When I first heard about this book, I knew it had an important message, but I never expected to have to quell the urge to highlight or underline nearly every sentence in the book.
This book succinctly summarized numerous ails of our society, and explains not only the root of the problem, but the solutions for fixing the problems that threaten our youth, our nation, and our very way of life.
Scouting is not about bigotry, or discrimination. (A scout is a friend to all) It is about internalizing a moral code that makes boys into men. Not herculean, testosterone-crazed, muscle-bound, abusive men, but men with values, morals, and character worthy of admiration and leadership.
Many of the worlds leaders would do well to implement even a small portion of these ideals into their own life.
If the Boy Scouts ever fall, it will be yet another signal of the irreparable damage done by the "liberal left's" policies of appeasement and persistent alleviation of responsibility and accountability for one's own actions.
Leaders, Teachers, Parents, and young men around the globe would do well to read and internalize the instruction contained in this book.
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