The love of money....... evil.
It's all about the money.
I have been involved in scouting for most of my life. I have never been part of a troop that has received the slightest bit of funding from a corporation. But we've supported many corporation through 'fundraising' drives where we sell over-priced merchandise and keep a tiny portion of the proceeds. I've seen trust funds set up for troops that had survived for 40-50 years swallowed up by councils which drained it in months.
I've seen councils claim poverty from supposed large payouts for victims - who only got hit with those large suits because they grabbed all the monies set aside for camps, activities and troops and made a healthy target for lawyers to drain.
I've attended a retirement dinner for the head of one council, and drew a few boos and quite a lot of clapping when I urged him to do what he should have done when he lead the council and turn over the retirement money back to the troops, and set an example to end all retirements and benefits for volunteers.
And I've fought tooth and nail to end professional scouting, AKA 'we will do anything for money' whoring to corporations, service groups and anyone else who might write a check.
Scouting only works if it is what it was designed to be; a volunteer organization run by community minded people, in a reverent and thoughtful manner. Instead it is run by a professional cadre which has managed to lose billions in lawsuits, billions more in heavy benefits payouts, and watched hundreds of camps close across the nation.
All that said, scouting is asexual. No scout is supposed to be classified as being heterosexual or homosexual; sexual conduct is contrary to the scouting way. But now the door is open for the next generation of pedophiles to fill the ranks, and set up the next round of lawsuits.
Homosexuals have been part of scouting in the past, leaving a massive trail of abused children in its wake. And once again, they are back. All to feed the professional organization, and with zero funds actually reaching the troops. End professional scouting, do not support financially in any shape or manner any council which has any professional staff. Only support volunteer led groups. Get the sickness out of scouting, and there's a chance that this new policy might not lead to thousands more victims.
You are so correct;the professionals ruin all voluntary and co-operative efforts.
Professionals demand huge salaries like their fellow leeches in the Red Cross and Goodwill ,basically perverting the original service goal to that of providing high-pay jobs for themselves and their friends.
I have also seen farm, electric, and telephone co-operatives turn from affordable basic services to their owner-members to promoting all kinds of un-needed,expensive changes at the behest of professional managers hired by boards of directors who succumbed to the fallacy that an industry “expert” is always better than the local person.
And those co-ops have either ceased to exist or become indistinguishable from other corporations.
By accepting open homosexuality ,American society has embraced failure.