What is the meaning of the BSA emblem?

[Novice_Cubmaster]

More importantly, why would a Brit like Baden-Powell pick a "French" symbol like a fleur-de-lys? What on Earth came over him?

 

NC

[emb021]

"More importantly, why would a Brit like Baden-Powell pick a "French" symbol like a fleur-de-lys?"

 

He picked it as it was the north point on a compass, not because it was a french symbol.

 

 

[Gags]

Rumour has it that he had whittled the choices down to either a fleur-de-lis or frog legs.

 

Yet another momentous decision point in the timeline of history that too often goes unnoticed by the ungrateful masses.

 

:-)

[Kahuna]

"he had whittled the choices down to either a fleur-de-lis or frog legs"

 

Wow! If we're unpopular with some groups because of God and Gays, just think what would happen if we had a symbol like that? PETA would be all over us.

[SSScout]

And to think I was surprised to discover that the swatiska was really a hindu good luck symbol, and a sioux good luck symbol, and a Scout good luck symbol...

[sherminator505]

Yeah, there was a time when a swastika was a good thing, before some yahoo with a funky moustache came along and messed everything up.

[Miki101]

The fleur-de-lis is the "peace lily"...quite appropriate for the Movement, actually.