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To: jboot; Scoutmaster

Just an update, I found this from Wikipedia, it mentions enrollment, but not financials.
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“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a longtime supporter of the Boy Scouts of America, teaches that homosexual activity is immoral.[91] The LDS Church is the largest single sponsor of Scouting units with over 30,000 units nationwide, which comprise about 13% of BSA’s youth members.[6][92] The LDS Church has stated that it would withdraw from the Scouting program if it was ever compelled to accept openly homosexual Scout leaders.[6][93] This does not differ from the LDS Church policy of allowing “non practicing” self professed gay members to enjoy all the same rights and privileges as any other Church member.

The United Methodist Church, the second-largest sponsor of Scouting units, has taken no public position on the controversy surrounding allowing openly gay leaders in Scouting, although in recent years the Church itself has had an ongoing internal debate regarding whether or not to accept LGBT clergy.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_membership_controversies


61 posted on 06/07/2012 2:08:04 PM PDT by JDW11235 (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/ AND "The fat, spoiled, complacent kid is going on a diet." -Unkus)
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To: JDW11235; jboot; SZonian
LDS Scouting is an important part of Boy Scouting. However, as Szonian pointed out, LDS Scouting is unique and this leads to the statistics for LDS Scouting being unique.

The LDS Church has adopted a modified form of the Boy Scouting program as the official program of the church's Youth Men's program. As part of this, each ward automatically charters Scouting units, which is what leads to the number of LDS Scouting units being so high while the average number of youth per LDS unit is far below the national BSA average of youth per unit.

The number of LDS youth in Scouting is so high because its not exactly a youth choice. If you're a male LDS youth, Scouting is an official program of your Young Men's church program.

What you heard about financials is almost certainly true for certain Councils. It's not at all true for the BSA and the overwhelming majority of BSA Councils. I've served as the Council Commissioner of one of the BSA's largest Councils.

70 posted on 06/08/2012 9:28:39 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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