Site Redesign in Progress.

The Scouting for All Web Site was hacked on January 7, 2009. Whoever did the hacking was running a spam server off of our site. Thankfully, due to dilligence on the part of our web host and my own "anal-retentiveness" about backups, the site was not lost.

However, I have spent literally hundreds of hours before and after this hack trying to "work around" problems with this site. I have temporarily closed the security holes, but research has only told me that there are more problems with the site than I was aware of.

The amount of time I have spent trying to "fix" this site is immesurable. A large part of this is due to a previous designer's use of iFrames, which is problamatic at best, and has become a major problem at worst.

I have given up on trying to "fix" or "work around" cumbersome design from the past. I am currently working on a technically simpler, though visually similar version of this site, which should be live by the end of January. Once this is live, the time I have spent trying to "work around" the site can better be spent trying to develop other portions of the site and updating the many things that need to be updated.

Thank you all for your patience.

M.J. Christensen
Gay Eagle Scout, Atheist
Web Site Manager
Scouting for All
webmaster@scoutingforall.org

Message of the Moment

Scouting for All is not against the Boy Scouts of America. In fact our organization was founded by an Eagle Scout and our team is made up mostly of Eagle Scouts and prior BSA members. Scouting for All opposes a policy that is harmful to youth, discriminatory, and bigoted, which BSA National in Irving, Texas imposes on all of its members. The BSA National leadership has corrupted both the Scout Oath and Law. We are just trying to change that. Lord Baden Powell the founder of the world scouting movement in 1907, intended scouting to be for all youth not just some youth. In fact where scouting was founded, in England, Girls, Atheists / Freethinkers, and Gays are accepted into the program. If you also believe in Scouting you'll not sit back and ignore the discrimination of the BSA, but step forth and speak out. Support Scouting for All for healing change within the Boy Scouts of America.

Steven Cozza, Eagle Scout Cofounder of Scouting for All, age 15, photo taken 2000. Steven's courageous stand as a 12 year old Life Scout, against the discrimination of the BSA helped inspire the grass-roots Scouting for All movement.

Steven Cozza's Website.