I think what we’re looking at, is that none of the religious groups except Baptists, appear to give a cr@p about the Boy Scouts themselves.
Perhaps I’ve just been out of the program for long enough, I just have a different view of it, but I don’t think so.
People held to the Boy Scouts as an unwaivering view of right.
Boy Scouts, do you hear me?
You have been the source for many, many, many Americans throughout their most formative years - of what is right.
You under some sort of threat, abandoned that now.
Either correct your mistake, or your group is going to shrivel away to nothing.
More rapidly than any of you imagine.
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A few other denominations have stood up to the BSA in the last several weeks = AoG (Assemblyof God), LC-MS (Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod), and PCA (Presbyterian Church in America). There will be a few Catholic and Methodist parishes to disaffiliate.
... Either correct your mistake, or your group is going to shrivel away to nothing. ...
You share the opinion of many others on FR. However, the BSA National Executive Committee announced back on 4/19/2013 that based upon the end of year 2012 total membership of 2.6 million, their worst projection showed a loss of 13% of the membership due to the new membership standard. Their best projection was a membership gain of <1%. Clearly, they reconciled that they could accept the collateral damage. BSA will continue, just like the Girl Scouts-USA has continued in spite of it having embraced cultural Marxism (lesbianism, militant feminism, anti-capitalism) 20+ years ago. It will just continue to get smaller.
BSA has been in membership decline since 1973. On top of the projected 13% loss due to the new membership standard, the gradual decline will continue. It is well known that the non-white populations have not embraced Scouting as a viable youth program for a host of reasons. The white slice of the U.S. popoulation pie chart is also getting smaller. You cannot change these demographic trends in short order.
It used to be that when you called someone a real boy scout, everybody knew what it meant. I meant something good. You would want your daughter to marry a former boy scout. Now what does it mean?