Kerping ... As per our conversation at lunch regarding n00bs working FR: you might want to take a look at what this n00b just happens to have filed away for posting at FR. Seems loaded for action don’tchaknow.
Un mentioned is the money, the financial aspect, the costs.
I am soon to be a 50 year registered scout. Most of that time is as an adult leader and much of that was in a senior troop leadership position. We pay out tons of money that is sent to National Council and is budgeted for law suits brought by families of boys abused in one form or another by leaders who join for the specific purpose of gaining access to boys and especially teenage boys.
I have real experience as a Troop executive dealing with young men who moved to our town to become leaders in a troop for the express purpose of getting at the boys. They are known as travelers. They move around, not for a job but for boys. A scoutmaster struggling with out adequate adult help is an easy mark. They jump at the chance to take on an assistant who claims to be an Eagle or Life scout. The threat is real in spite of the tracking.
We are now required to take youth protection training every other year. That is not because we are not adequately trained, but just to keep up with the ever changing methods of those who would do our scouts harm. If you do not present a certificate of training, you can not be re registered.
The cost of queer/predator defense to BSA is immense and a terrible tax on resources that could be much better spent on a myriad of subjects of direct benefit to boys.
BSA is not the Roman Catholic Church. BSA does not have world wide resources to payoff those who bring suit against youth predators. As A scouter I can only dream of the day when the pressure and resources brought to bear on Penn state sinners are used to assist the embattled BSA that is in the same but much less well funded boat.
The day queers are admitted should also be the day they can be stood against a wall and shot for their predation.