BOY SCOUTS ON VERGE OF BANKRUPTCY ... As the organization has made decisions deemed to be more inclusive, such as allowing openly gay scouts in 2013 and scoutmasters in 2015 as well as the 2018 decision to allow girls, membership has continued to decline sharply... [More]I'd also look to declining birthrates among their traditional demographic and the irrelevance of their traditions to the fast-breeding replacement population. And doesn't that have further-reaching implications...?
[Via Mack H]
"Those numbers will likely continue to decline. Earlier this year, the Mormon church announced the end of a long-standing partnership with the Boy Scouts and the formation of its own program for boys"
ReplyDeleteA partnership that came with its own repertoire of problems, as in highly rural areas, the only Scout troop available to non-Mormons within reasonable distance was often run by the Mormon Church, who used it in part as a youth program for their own faith, and were as uncomfortable letting non-Mormons participate past a certain age as many of those non-Mormons were to continue to participate.