I don't think sexually confused kids were ever being thrown out of the scouts. Gays had been in the scouts for decades just as they had been in the military for decades. They were there existing with a more or less unspoken, Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.
But once activists began demanding that openly gay scouts be allowed in, or allowed to stay in scouts after they "came out", then that's when the scout's policy became an issue on which a stand had to be taken.
Similar developments brought the gay adult scout leader issue to the US Supreme Court, but that one was always more dangerous and more serious that the few in-the-closet gay scouts who participated.
But all this came to a head because activists demanded the openly gay scouts be allowed to be members, not because in-the-closet kids were being pursued and flushed out by any BSA organizations.
I understand. I’m just wondering how the BSA coulda better finessed the situation from a PR perspective.