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Entry: Taking Back Our Children Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/taking_back_our_children#4747 Post contents: @John curious what you say of your father's experience. As to the nun's hostility towards the Boy Scouts I can only imagine two things. She must have been instructd that the founder of the Boy Scouts was a freemason, and was striking a blow for orthodoxy. There are people today who object to the Boy Scouts for that reason, that if they go camping and all that, they'll end up in dark conspiracies to destroy Holy Mother Church. Or she might have been Irish. The Irish Republicans did not like Boy Scouts very much, seeing in them the embodiment of British Imperialism. That redoutable woman Constance Gore-Booth, Countess Markiewitz founded the Nationalistic equivalent of the Boy Scouts, the Fianna, where the children were taught camping, woodland skills, handling of firearms, and the glory of dying for Irelan. She also taught them that when they saw a Boy Scout they should beat him up and steal his uniform. So, your father should count himself lucky that she only called him a bolshevik (which, as Conor Cruise O'Brien says, is only an euphemism for "bad Catholic"). Sent at: 2008 08 21