“The BSA committed suicide. It will be insolvent inside a year.”
The BSA was in an unwinnable situation. They fought all the way to the Supreme Court and won, but that unleashed the fanatics to relentlessly attack its sponsors. Stay the course, no sponsors, no money. Change course to make sponsors happy, everyone pulls their kids out. Either way they were doomed. This of course is not a problem for the fanatics that attacked the BSA. They never cared about scouting. They pretented to so they could work to destroy it from the inside. The main goal all along was to destroy the BSA since it was a traditional American organization and it opposed them.
” This of course is not a problem for the fanatics that attacked the BSA. They never cared about scouting. They pretented to so they could work to destroy it from the inside. The main goal all along was to destroy the BSA since it was a traditional American organization and it opposed them.”
There is likely a lot of truth to this. I heard the org was being infiltrated over a number of years.
They would have found more sponsors had they stuck it out.
They also could have cut back, IMO there have been some extra programs since I was in in the 60’s and 70’s. We did most of our time at camp. My son’s troop spent most of theirs in a building making crafts and doing meaningless skits. Hence they lost him after hearing my tails of scouting in my youth.
They never cared about scouting. They pretented to so they could work to destroy it from the inside. The main goal all along was to destroy the BSA since it was a traditional American organization and it opposed them.
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I think their goal was not to completely destroy it, but to destroy it as a wholesome, straight organization. They now have it positioned to gradually transform it into a “grooming” organization to transform straight boys into progressive, compliant potential recruits for adult NAMBLA types. It will become a joke to the “morally straight” unfortunately.
They could have survived without sponsors. The administrative structures of these types of organizations just get addicted to the money and careers that spring up within them over time.