I agree with a lot of what you said! It saddens me too. In Utah, I don’t really think there will be a large problem, at least for now. Most scout troops and councils are run through the prominent churches. (both the Mormon church and R. Catholic churches and others are running scout programs)Most leaders (men and women in both org.s) are still pretty much conservative family people.
And like you said, most the volunteers are still family-church-faith oriented people. Oh Utah has it’s far-left freaks here and there. (especially Salt Lake City, strangely)And yes, I’m aware that even in the churches there are people who pretend to be upstanding members and are actually creepy in private! But for now, most scouting is still run and volunteered by fairly conservative concerned citizens and leaders.
In our Roman Catholic parish, one of our deacons runs the BS troops through the parish! We had a lady who once ran (and maybe still does) a GS troop through the parish. I don’t know what they’re going to do. They have scouts in uniform present at Sunday Mass services, and have their meetings there too! I’m wondering if some of the older scouts will be aware of anything going on when they are at camps. I’m hoping they(in parish and in other places) will be watching over the younger boys to make sure there is no funny business!
They might be even more aware now, and will assist the leaders in keeping their eyes on younger and other older boys to be sure things don’t happen! Many of them are older brothers who watch the younger ones anyway. That might go a long way to reassure the parents who are not able to be there!
Oops, so sorry for the double post! I thought I had forgotten to hit the “Post” button, so hit it again! I wish they had a feature on here to get rid of the extra “goof-up” posts, especially after posting!