That said, the BSA has its own own membership issues. As I noted back in May, "The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod severed its ties with scouting in 2015, and Franklin Graham, the influential evangelical pastor, reacted to the news of the Mormon decision by writing that 'all churches' should 'pull out of the Boy Scouts organization completely.'"
Boy Scouts failed to protect nearly 800 from sexual abuse, new lawsuit says . The decline of Boy Scouts and a culture that's failing young men. Though the church offered few details about its reasoning the Human Rights Campaign and other LGBT groups attacked the church for the move nonetheless. One out of every five Boy Scout troops in the country is attached to an LDS congregation, Boy Scouts have been a central part of the church's youth program for over a century, and the president of the Mormon church, Thomas S. Monson has been on the Boy Scouts board for 47 years. The BSA seems to understand that alienating the organization's religious base was self-destructive and this is why they initially resisted accepting gay scoutmasters. ", The Boy Scouts of America said in an email: "We care deeply about all victims of abuse and sincerely apologize to anyone who was harmed during their time in Scouting. And the cold, hard statistics tell me I'm far from alone in writing off a cherished institution no longer dedicated to the notion that there are special leadership qualities and responsibilities unique to men. With more than 4 million Boy Scouts during the peak, the BSA is down to about 2.3 million scouts (and there were 2.6 million as recently as 2013).
But on another level, declining membership may not be the primary motivator behind this radical departure from the Boy Scouts stated mission of exclusively cultivating skills and morals in young men., . A Christian ministry in Colorado is suing Gov. On some level, the decision to include women is, if you'll forgive the pun, a Hail Mary to reverse the trend in declining membership. Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan said he won't voluntarily testify before a House Special Investigating Committee set for Tuesday in Springfield. It would be very easy to imagine the Mormon church, which has abundant financial resources and awesome organizational capability, is drawing up contingency plans to create its own men's youth program and pull out of the organization rather than continue to tolerate BSA's leftward drift. “The values of Scouting – trustworthy, loyal, helpful, kind, brave and reverent, for example – are important for both young men and women,” Surbaugh added. Louisiana officials on Friday temporarily avoided triggering the business tax increases and worker benefit cuts that could be needed to replenish the state’s shrinking unemployment insurance trust fund, though no one has yet proposed a permanent solution. The Boy Scouts of America announced Wednesday that they would admit girls into the organization for the first time ever. Jared Polis, alleging that the state’s COVID-19 executive orders violate its constitutional rights by arbitrarily restricting religious gatherings and services. "BSA knew for decades that sexual predators of boys had infiltrated scouting," the complaints states. © 2020 CNBC LLC.
Stewart Eisenberg, one of the lead lawyers in the case, told CNBC that he hopes this new lawsuit will force Congress to act and to hold the Boy Scouts accountable for their abuse against young men.
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