If I remember correctly they did NOT have to admit gays. The courts ruled in their favor as a private organization. They were pressured by groups like the United Way ( I believe that was one) who provided financial support to the BSA. They are the perfect example of what happens when you let the camel’s nose into the tent.
That’s exactly it.
Correct. SCOTUS decided in 2000 that BSA, as a private organization had the right the set its membership rules. That all fell apart in JAN 2013 when BSA Past President Rex Tillerson led a rogue delegation of BSA National Executive Committee officers to change the membership standard to include open homosexual youths.
They were pressured by groups like the United Way (I believe that was one) who provided financial support to the BSA. They are the perfect example of what happens when you let the camel’s nose into the tent.
Correct again. I recall reading an article back in the early 2000s that >70 local chapters of the United Way (mostly located in east and left coast major cities, with a scattering of upper mid-west major cities) had voted to withhold funding from local BSA councils who had filed their annual grant requests.