Why has this become a big thing recently?
The Boy Scouts are fine, exactly the way they are.
Do not mess with them.
It was a very systematic effort to penetrate the leadership council, offering corporate money, with the idea of subverting the organization. The left has mastered the technique and used it to destroy organization after organization.
Their threat is if the BSA rejects the agenda, they will cut off the corporate funding they provide. And if they are indeed planning to stuff the ballot box, there is a good chance that they will win, and the BSA will be crippled, its reputation ruined.