Talk:Boy Scouts of America membership controversies/Archive 10

Vote
"The approximate 1,400 voting members of the Boy Scouts of America's National Council approved a resolution to remove the restriction denying membership to youth on the basis of sexual orientation alone."

Reactions:
 * The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reaffirmed its relationship with the BSA.
 * TheAmerican Heritage Girls dissolved their relationship with the BSA.
 * "Since the change in policy will not take effect until January 1, 2014, the National Catholic Committee on Scouting has adequate time to study its effects."

--  Gadget850talk 02:07, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
 * What is the purpose of this on the Talk Page? I don't get it. GeorgeLouis (talk) 06:58, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
 * It was added on talk before it was added to the article. If Gadget's like me, sometimes you feel bold, and sometimes you feel like sharing a source and letting someone else actually edit the article. --HectorMoffet (talk) 01:12, 25 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Well, it's kind of weird that it was posted here, and then added to the article before any significant discussion happened anyway. The LDS church position is important. It provides massive funding to the BSA. For it to affirm that's its relationship will continue, seemingly largely unchanged, is a big thing. As for a conservative Christian girls group, who really cares? It may call itself a Scouting body, but unlike the BSA, it's not part of WOSM, so not globally recognised as part of Scouting. Its position is not at all surprising, and will have minimal impact. It's almost trivial and doesn't belong in the article. HiLo48 (talk) 01:26, 25 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Included mostly for balance / a token placeholder for "a few people cut ties to BSA over the vote outcome". If a more notable organization breaks ties, I'd suggest pulling the American Heritage Girls mention and replacing it with the more-notable organization.   33% of supporters of the policy said they would quit over a change-- surely there will be at least one council or charter organization that cuts ties over this in the coming days and weeks?  --HectorMoffet (talk) 01:40, 25 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, one wonders about that, but one must not speculate. We must wait. Still think the American Heritage Girls stuff is undue, but I won't fight it. HiLo48 (talk) 01:54, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
 * And some of us would rather gather information before creating brilliant prose. --  Gadget850talk 02:25, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
 * The AHG has less than 1% of the BSA or GSUSA membership. It was the only youth organization with a formal relationship with the BSA, and they are getting a lot of press on this. --  Gadget850talk 16:11, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Depending on what circles you travel in, SpiralScouts and BPSA get just as much or more press than AHG. I've already removed references to AHG and other BSA alternatives, because it is impossible to make a balanced, comprehensive list of such groups. Cwgmpls (talk) 16:17, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I did put a link the the wikipedia "Breakaway Organizations" page in the "Reaction" section. This provides a better overview of the topic of breakaway groups. Cwgmpls (talk) 16:42, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Am I correct in recalling that the BSA have (or rather now, had) a better relationship with the American Heritage Girls than they do with the Girl Scouts of the USA, which is a Scouting organisation, although also not a member of WOSM but is of course a member of WAGGGS, based in part of the fact that the Girl Scouts of the USA have been gay-friendly for a long time? It may be that the BSA will now develop a better relationship with what is its proper female Scouting partner. That will definitely be some something to write about if it happens. If I am correct, it puts the action of the American Heritage Girls in a more notable light. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  03:26, 25 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, a better relationship between BSA and the Girl Scouts would be a notable development. But I can't see it happening all that rapidly. Those girls just don't do the God stuff properly. (According to the conservatives in the Boy Scouts at least.)

--  Gadget850talk 12:16, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
 * The Baptists seem to be coming to an accomodation.
 * Scout executive of Palmetto Council resigning.

first openly gay leader banned, troop disbanded for keeping leader.
Gaijin42 (talk) 16:14, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
 * http://time.com/45697/lgbt-groups-condemn-removal-of-openly-gay-scout-leader/
 * http://time.com/70116/boy-scouts-seattle-troop/
 * http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boy-scouts-ban-church-hosting-troop-led-gay-man-n85391

Historical Membership Data
I added historical membership data from 1960. Since this made the "change since 1999" row odd, I included rows for peak year (overall) and most recent peak year (the last year in which there was an increase from the previous year's membership), and change in membership since those peak years. In an effort to maintain the "traditional scouting" aspect, I did my best to differentiate between Venturing (which split from Exploring in 1998), Exploring (what the older youth program started as), and Learning for Life (which split from Exploring in 1990). In doing so, I'm taking traditional membership to mean "the high adventure program" and not "the work training program" or the "morals and ethics not including the scout oath and law" program. This is how traditional scouting is usually defined in the Report to the Nation and the At A Glance pages from National BSA, so I'm comfortable with this. ArrowmanCoder (talk) 17:38, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * The BSA defines traditional Scouting as Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting (including Varsity Scouting) and Venturing (including Sea Scouting). Learning for Life is a non-Scouting subsidiary and never split from traditional Scouting. Career-based Exploring was moved to LfL in 1998 and the remainder became Venturing. The BSA plans to change the 2014 census report by including Varsity Scouting numbers in the Venturing count.
 * And no one has yet shown a correlation between membership and the controversies. --  Gadget850talk 19:40, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Correlation or causation? However there are almost certainly multiple factors for the decline (now if the BSA/GSUSA could only figure out what UK Guiding and the Scouting Association are doing right [both increased membership last year]).  I've now added the 2014 information from the Annual Report and did the percent changes since 1999 which is when the current structure was established.  --Erp (talk) 03:16, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

BSA rules have changed- ban lifted 7/10/15
http://scoutingnewsroom.org/blog/update-on-adult-leadership-standards/ 66.194.26.66 (talk) 22:07, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

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I've started a discussion at Talk:Boy Scouts of America given some of the recent edits here and on that article on this issue. --Erp (talk) 04:53, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

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