According to at least one Mormon Facebook friend, the BSA ignored repeated requests to reschedule Monday's vote until August when their church representatives could attend. Gates and the leadership wanted to stack the vote when they knew the opposition had previous commitments.
If true, it shows what they think of their major customers and made a break-up inevitable. Hopefully, it will come sooner rather than later so that BSA has such a financial shock they will have to sell many of their camps and other facilities to successor organizations in order to remain afloat.
I'm not hopeful that they will unite into a single alternative organization given what would be involved in a limited time. But I am hopeful that they can at least enter into some sort of time share agreement. For example, a Mormon troop in Utah lends their camp for a week to a Catholic troop there in exchange for a Catholic troop lending their camp to in Pennsylvania to a Mormon troop.
Eventually, the smaller alternative organizations would find it in their own interests to merge or at least sign these type of mutual exchange agreements.
Why can’t they be kicked out and the motions revisited?
I read where the Mormon reps were denied a postponement, so will say this is true...reprehensible, but not unexpected.
The BSA no longer tolerates dissent within the ranks.
Your suggestion about “time sharing” camps is a good one and will probably come to pass...the BSA is already losing money...sure, corporate donations help, but losing camping fees at camps, membership fees, FOS funds, popcorn sales and concession sales at trading is going to hurt.
In our area, they rent out scout camps to non scout organizations/groups to help make up for some of those losses...Scouts actually have to COMPETE with outside groups for access to Scout camps in some instances...indicates how desperate they’re getting.