“The only thing that has kept the BSA going the last 20 years has been the adoption of BSA by the Mormons as their primary young men’s program.”
And they fundraise yearly for Friends of Scouting to support local councils.
They also have a backup program ready to go. They already use it in Switzerland because the Swiss scouts have a co-ed program and the church refuses to participate in it. Hence they have their own program, patches, ranks and everything. The Mormons can go on without the BSA just fine.
Interesting that in the USA they gave their consent to the National President at the time (a mormon) and consented to the membership policy change.
And now you seem to be praising the mormons for being able to "go on without BSA just fine".
It only serves to reinforce my position that the mormons are not in this for the good of the WHOLE program nationwide...only as it benefits them.
I hope that this time the Mormon church does the right thing and terminates its 100 plus year relationship with scouting. Unfortunately, I expect the proposed policy to allow local organizations to determine their own membership rules will be good enough to keep going a while longer. It is a sad and disappointing time. My Bishop recently asked me to accept a church calling that worked with scouts. I declined it. When he asked for a donation to Friends of Scouting I told him I was no longer a Friend of Scouting.