Not only no but hell no! This is why I've folded my BSA tent and gone home. (And, as of today, so have the Southern Baptists. Wonder if the Mormons will stay or go?)
(These are the thoughts of a one-time Boy Scout and the father of two Eagle Scouts.)
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The mormons signed off the policy change. The BSA National President is a mormon. I seriously doubt he would have gone against SLC's position in his push to have the change implemented. There's too much $$ at stake with the mormons.
This is why I believe National made the change only after they had been granted assurances by SLC that SLC would back the change.
The mormons are portrayed as some great advocate of Scouting because of their numbers. But those numbers are hollow. They register EVERY youth of Scouting age is who on their church membership roster at every ward, regardless of activity or participation.
So for example, BSA gets the money for 10 Scouts from the mormons but only has to support about 3-4 because the rest don't "use" any resources.
When you roll those numbers up to the actual figures, you can see how much $$ is at stake here.