[Wallace T.]

Perhaps the long term goal is to turn the Boy Scouts into an essentially defunct organization receiving funds from corporate sponsors and nonprofits that are leftist dominated. Assuming the LDS church ceases its support of the organization, and the Catholics do similarly in the more conservative dioceses and parishes, the number of troops will be drastically reduced. Evangelical Protestants have largely withdrawn support from the Boy Scouts. Parents who send their sons into the BSA tend to be culturally conservative. Cultural liberals place little stock in the old school values the Boy Scouts formerly inculcated. They also have fewer children.

In a decade, membership will probably be south of one million, about half of what it is now. However, the bureaucrats who run the BSA will have access to corporate largess that will in turn allow them to enjoy big salaries. As membership declines, the organization will sell off campgrounds that are no longer needed.

What will happen to the BSA is what has happened to the liberal, mainline Protestant denominations. When liberals take over, conservatives leave. An example is the Presbyterian Church, USA, with 1.7 million members in 2014, down from 2.5 million at the beginning of the century.

[madprof98]

What will happen to the BSA is what has happened to the liberal, mainline Protestant denominations.

Good analysis. Makes no difference to them that nobody much attends their so-called services. Their endowments go a lot farther that way, and hardly anyone questions what's happening to the money/property.