My husband asked, and I don’t know, what is the organizational structure that allowed these turncoat, pro-homosexual leadership to rise up to the level of the executive council or whatever it was called that just made this decision? I don’t know the organizational structure of scouting, but would venture to guess this was NOT the majority opinion at the local scouting level.
Can anyone answer that who understands the scouting leadership structure?
Members of the National Council National Executive Committee, ~23 officers
National President 1
National Commissioner 1
Chief Scout Executive 1
Past National President 1
executive vice-president 1
vice-presidents ~ 11
International Commissioner 1
treasurer 1
assistant treasurers ~
1 National Advisory Council chairman 1
regional presidents 4
National Executive Board: includes 5 youth members, ~ 49
National Eagle Scout Association Chairman of the Board of Regents 1
area presidents 26
council Key-3’s: 3 x 294 = 882
other, including honorary + extra council seats for larger councils ~ 419
Total ~ 1,400
The professional scouters make up a small number of the voting delegates, i.e., the Chief Scout Executive and ~ 292 local council scout executives. The individual councils are represented at the annual business meeting with a range of 3-15 delegates, determined by the number of scouts in the council.
The National Executive Committee, ~23 members, are the officers of the National Executive Board, ~ 72 members. As with any oganization, the power to set the agenda lies with the executive committee/officers. The people who get recruited for these volunteers positions, are by and large, immensely successful business people who agree to donate to the BSA from their own pockets (just like FoS, Friends of Scouting, at the local council level) and get their companies to financially support BSA.
Basically what has happened is that a number of the men on the National Executive Committee are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies whose companies have totally bought into their Human Resources Departments support of all things homosexual. The BSA "suits" in Irving, TX, are addicted to the corporate largess.