“Keep your children out of these organizations. Both GSA and BSA will die sooner or later.”
Exactly what has happened to the canadian scouts:
In 1998, Canadian Scouts (CS) decided to allow females, atheists, agnostics, homosexuals, bisexuals, and transsexuals to join the CS. In 1999, they approved the establishment of an all-homosexual troop, which now marches in Canada’s “gay pride” parades. Within five years, scouting membership dropped over 50 percent, many scouting camps and offices were closed, and staff was laid off.
More importantly is the tragic sexual abuse by leaders in scouting.
http://lastresistance.com/1262/canadas-boy-scouts-warn-bsa-of-homosexual-infiltration/
Thinking they could become more inclusive,
the Boy Scouts of Canada Board of Governors decided in November 1998 to admit females, atheists, agnostics, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals into troops. Despite that established troops were not even allowed to remain all-male groups, Scouts Canada approved the establishment of the world’s first all-homosexual troop in 1999. The troop marches in homosexual pride parades and loudly symbolizes what Scouts Canada calls its commitment to diversity.
Scouts Canada’s new non-discrimination code reads: “Scouting is a worldwide, multicultural movement. We welcome people to membership regardless of gender, race, culture, religious belief, sexual orientation or economic circumstances. Youth members are strongly influenced by the behaviour of adults. We need to be sensitive to the traditions and beliefs of all people and to avoid words or actions which “put down” anybody.”
And so, in its attempt to include everybody and everything, Scouts Canada is effectively dead.
Budgets have run dry. Troop halls and old campsites sit vacant. Professional staff salaries are severed. Membership is mostly decimated. In the past, membership roles consistently exceeded 300,000. Around the peak in 1965, there were 320,000 Boy Scouts. Today, despite a one third population increase in Canada over four decades and a doubling of the demographic possibilities (with female members), Scouts Canada has dwindled to a puny 130,000 and it is rapidly declining.
Open to all, there is a certain liability that accompanies the mixture of sexes and sexual preferences at Scout Camp. It is no coincidence that Scouts Canada’s costs for liability insurance against sexual molestation claims increased dramatically by 2002 when, lacking adequate finances, Scouts Canada canceled its sex abuse insurance, and with it many “high risk” activities. Without the insurance, a single pedophile could potentially annihilate Scouts Canada forever.
http://www.virtueonline.org/canada-death-canadian-scouting
But I need to be a bit of a grammar nazi here:
Membership is mostly decimated.
To decimate means to reduce by 10%. Going from 300,000 members down to 270,000 would be an example of the ranks being decimated.
You would have to decimate the ranks about seven times to get down to 130,000. So the problem is understated by nearly a factor of seven.
I do hope that Trail Life, U.S.A. or other worthy organization can acquire their camps and other assets at bargain prices before BSA finally reaps the bitter harvest of what they have sowed with today's sorry decision.
Thanks for the insight, it’s nice to hear a comparison.