Did the leadership not anticipate a backlash? Did they not care? Stunning!
They are now ruled by sodomites. And the goal of the sodomites is to tear down every conservative organization. They WANT the scouts to fail.
Of course they expected a backlash.
4/19/2013 - The BSA’s National Executive Committee (~23 voting members) unanimously approved and released its membership standards resolution, which proposed removing the restriction denying membership to youth on the basis of sexual orientation alone and maintaining the current membership policy for all adult leaders of the BSA. Under the new proposal, there is a national standard and no “local option.”
http://scoutingmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/executive-summary-of-study-findings.pdf
Key Findings - excerpts
51% of major donors support the current policy while 33% oppose it. But a majority of Fortune 500 companies want to see the policy changed.
The summary of findings said a policy change would cost the Scouts a minimum of 100,000 to 350,000 (13.5%) members. “It is believed any gain in membership because of a change to the membership policy related to youth and adults would be in the range of 10,000 to 20,000 (<1%) youth.”