I think what’s going to happen is that people will start asking questions about how and when did a boy under the age of concent figure out he was gay.
I think parents of ‘gay’ boys will still probably avoid scouting, unless, of course, they are the adopted sons of two gay parents.
When that activism starts to root, I think you’ll see a backlash.
I also think the current board is going to end up getting fired.
This is the first shot in the war, not the last.
There was a line from High Plains Drifter that comes to mind:
“Promisin’s one thing, payin’s another.”
Once this hits their pocketbook, I think they’ll take another look.
I would agree with everyone here in saying that the world is getting worse. I guess that’s what has to happen before it ends.
That is the reason for this change in the first place. Gay activists alone could not have directly brought this about. Instead, they have pressured numerous corporations who make up a substantial amount of the funding for the Boy Scouts. It was the corporations that pressured the national board. Several on the board are heads of very large public companies.
You just have to wonder if those same corporations will pay for the litigation when the 17 year old gay Scouts age out, want to become leaders and are turned down. I doubt it. Within 3-5 years they will change the rules again and allow openly gay leaders as well.
Unless they want to get the ever living @$#% beat out of them.