How are they going to keep the same group that bullied the Boy Scouts into becoming the Boy/Gay Scouts from doing the same to Trail Life USA? Is Trail Life more tied to churches and thus has freedom of religion protection?
My suppositions:
1. The membership is different.
2. Learning from the BSA’s mistakes, Trail Life will not hire scads of professional “scouters” who are willing to sell their souls to keep corporate donations coming in.
By steadfastly refusing to become dependent on any donations. What happened to BSA is they got themselves in a situation where they had corporate sponsors they couldn't afford to lose.
They won’t become dependent upon corporate sponsorships whom subsequently got all skittery when the 1.5% started squawking that it was “unfair”...
There are other alternatives to the Boy Scouts that are entirely religiously based, which gives them more protection than the Boy Scouts did.
Conservative Boy Scout Alternatives
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/Conservative-Boy-Scout-Alternatives
I suspect that the progressive groups targeted BSA as much for their part in American tradition as they did for their disallowing homosexuals.
TrailLife should be a less appealing target.
I’m skeptical of TL’s long-term durability against the Gaystapo as well. Every assurance we are given about Trail Life was once true of the BSA, which has (had) at its core a belief in and reverence for God. The vast majority of Troops are sponsored and deeply influenced by local church bodies after all.
The BSA was also once decentralized and supported by the grass-roots local interest in boys’ development. But the lust for money can insideously invade any organization. It only takes a tiny inroad.
That said, I heartily support Trail Life and hope/pray that it will remain steadfast against the coming onslaught, for without AND from within.