One way around this is to limit adult participation to those who have, had, or will have young relatives who join. Gets away from the gay thing while qualifying legitimate volunteers.
Yes. The elephant in the room about BSA is that it’s all really about liability. Even if the BSA were to allow gay leaders in under an explicit zero-tolerance, no strikes policy, they’d still be liable for any assaults/rapes that did occur.
It would very quickly consume and destroy the organization ...