Based on past experience I can see the former temporizing and ultimately caving in as it has on the issue of proabortion Catholic politicians. The latter, though, may show more backbone, withdraw from the BSA, and start their own male youth program.
Withdrawal of the Mormons will hit the BSA right where it hurts so I hope they do it. Withdrawal of the Catholics would be the right thing to do but so would denying communion to the likes of Pelosi and Biden but all the Catholic Church ever does is huff and puff so I am not hopeful.
According to the 2012 BSA National Report to the Nation (which was released in FEB 2013), 63.6% of all registered scouts were in units chartered to religious institutions. The 6 largest were ...
1. LDS 26.2%
2. UMC 22.1%
3. RCC 16.6%
4. Presbyterian (PC-USA, PCA, others) 7.6%
5. Lutheran (ELCA, LC-MS, LC-WS) 7.1%
6. Baptist (SBC and all others) 6.6%
... Based on past experience I can see the former temporizing and ultimately caving in as it has on the issue of proabortion Catholic politicians. The latter, though, may show more backbone, withdraw from the BSA, and start their own male youth program.
Lots of Catholics on FR posting on these threads who strongly disagree with that viewpoint. While the National Catholic Committee on Scouting has essentially accepted it, many within the Church believe it is going to be reversed.
Withdrawal of the Mormons will hit the BSA right where it hurts so I hope they do it.
The LDS church adopted the BSA as its official male youth program in 1913. Informed insiders have said that the LDS leadership is tired of being a punching bag regarding homosexual marriage (Prop 8 in CA, 2008) and is very fearful that continued negative publicity coming from the homosexualist lobby could damage the church's missionary work in converting new members to the faith.
Withdrawal of the Catholics would be the right thing to do.
Agreed. Hope they get around to it sometime during the next 7 months.
With more conservative bishops being appointed by the Pope that may begin to change also down the road.