Given the schedule of most families, the fact that the BSA can now offer programs for EVERYONE in the family works better for me.
For ME, its about logistics and not ideology.
For the parents, if any of them starts getting uppity about that sort of thing, the others are there to deal with it. Everyone is sick of the politicization of Scouting in my units, and they are active on rooting out bad actors.
Again, I live in an extremely liberal place, which, again is a huge advantage for me. I provide a place for traditional family types to find rich program for kids.
Not easily done.
I feel like a gun manufacturer, and the world is trying to ban them. Serious demand driver.
For other units, their mileage may vary.
The Boy Scouts was and should be a way that culture can affirm and promote masculine behavior in little boys with true masculine role models in a safe environment, free of sexual tension. Teaching boys how to be moral adult males and how to master skills and the environment is its purpose. Boys need affirmation, separate from females at times, for creating individualism (agency), since they are not the same and not in competition with females (ever, in physical way).
Males and females are complimentary (Christian rational ethics) and culture should never pit them and “pretend” that they are the “same” and interchangeable (Marxist ethics which destroy reason and logic in children—dehumanize them).
In a rational world we should ban Marxist “ethics” in a true “Justice” system of Law which we did until the 50s. “Rule of Law” can never promote irrational, vile behaviors and irrational ethics to little children—particularly that “sodomizing” others is “good” and “natural” as it was in Sparta and today’s Afghani “cultures” of “man-boy love” sick cultures.
BTW, that is how the Marxists are destroying us: They are removing Rule of Law for Rule of Marx for the last 100 years in America starting with the Federal Reserve and Marxist Income Tax Act (both unconstitutional/null and void). The nail in the coffin is “homosexual marriage”—complete removal of Reason, Natural Law Theory (Our Constitution) and “Justice”—the Queen of Virtue.
Removal of Right Reason and Natural Law for compete irrationality promotion to little children 24/7 creates irrational, ignorant “bots’ like serfs and slaves of old. Embedding Vice as “Good” to little children in our unconstitutional Pavlovian indoctrination centers to destroy children’s ability to use reason and logic (be human) is unconstitutional and evil. Yet, we allow this evil “System” to progress and destroy Christian Ethics in our children to return satanism, paganism, etc......irrational cultures. Age of Reason and Age of Wisdom was only possible with the Christian worldview of free will and individual Natural Rights only from God—never the State or Marx.
Parents are giving up embedding virtue into their children: they are too lazy and it is “easier” to allow government to raise (destroy) your own children. So-called “parents” today allow others to do their Natural Duties—which means there are no Natural Rights anymore, since Duties are necessary for all “rights”. Evil and Lazy is embedded into all children now in “public schools”, who are raised without any virtues and devoid of Reason (where Up is Down, Boys are Girls) which will make them slaves to the state for life.