Posted on 01/17/2015 12:09:54 PM PST by NKP_Vet
DALLAS (Reuters) - Membership in the Boy Scouts of America took a steeper tumble during 2014, the first year under a policy that allows openly gay youth to participate, than in recent years of a decade-long decline.
About 2.4 million youth participated in the nearly 105-year-old Texas-based scouting program, representing a 7.4 percent decline over 2013 enrollment of 2.6 million youth, Boy Scout officials said in a statement on Friday.
Enrollment declined by about 6 percent in 2013. BSA officials said that decreasing participation is a trend that most youth organizations are facing.
"There are many factors that go into a family's decision to join and participate in Scouting. This includes, but is not limited to, the limited amount of discretionary time of parents and kids," the BSA statement said.
The number of adult volunteers dropped to 981,000 in 2014, down from slightly over 1 million 2013.
The new membership policy that allowed gay youth in the organization for the first time split the organization between those who embraced the non-discriminatory change and conservatives who stood by traditional values. Trail Life USA was founded last year as a breakaway organization based on Christian standards.
In an effort to increase membership, the Boy Scouts introduced new technology programs and more outdoor activities. Also, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates became national president and a new "High Adventure Base" opened in West Virginia last year.
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Historically it seems open homosexuality is a nearly perfectly correlated sign of corruption and decline in any organization, whether boy scouts or entire governments and States.
“On my honor, I will do my duty, to God and my Country....”
Can they even SAY that anymore?
Queers didn't attract boys voluntarily ?
Watch ... mandatory boy scout participation .... like what the draft USED TO be
Mission Accomplised. The fags knew this would result in the end of Scouting.
As the MSM says every time a progressive idea ends up doing exactly what the non-progs said it would: “unexpected”.
HOMOSEXUALS and LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING THEY TOUCH!!!
>>Watch ... mandatory boy scout participation .... like what the draft USED TO be
They’ll have to change the name something less traditional. Perhaps, “Young Pioneers” would be a good name.
Way to go Robert Gates! He fostered the mess in Iraqi and now he is ruining the BSA. This lame compromise pleased no one. The gay gestapo still is complaining about not having access to boys. The BSA is being abandoned by conservatives.
Here is the 2012 Republican Party’s presidential nominee reaffirming his 20 year campaign for gay scout leaders.
“A campaign assistant for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney confirmed that the former Massachusetts governor’s opposition to the Boy Scouts’ ban on homosexual leaders, which he publicly expressed in 1994, still stands. According to the Deseret News , Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul told the Associated Press that Romney is still holding to the political stand he adopted nearly 20 years ago when he said during an unsuccessful run for Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate that while he supported “the right of the Boy Scouts of America to decide what it wants to do on that issue,” he also felt that “all people should be able to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation.””
Also, child rape mysteriously increased. hmmm
Bet Scout Master applications in San Franisco skyrocketed though...
What's next? Boy Scout Jamboree to be held at Penn State?
The rest of the bad news: How many adult volunteers are single mothers/feminists?
Declining birthrates can’t help either; the “replacement Americans” don’t go for letting strangers take their kids on trips.
In my area there is a general decline in youth-related activities that seems to be tracking the decline in number of youth.
12 Sources, please?
We told them that this would happen, but they wouldn't listen.
And the fat greasy “professional” scout execs rolled over for the homosexuals to protect their fat salaries and cushy jobs. Scouting and is participants were never a factor. Somewhere Lord Baden-Powell weeps
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