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[quote=Anonymous] I find the original post to be a simplistic advertising play I would not normally comment on, but the reaction suggests a comment.

“Discriminatory” …  The BSA is non-discriminatory but does continues its religious principles statement.  You have to believe in “something”.  The past discriminatory membership policies are all blown-away.

“Predatory organization that moved pedophiles around to hurt other children” …  False.  The BSA’s pre-internet system for identifying, removing and banning child predators was imperfect and was unable to block all evil predators – some of who changed their identities and moved around.  There is not a single instance of the BSA knowingly “moving around” a predator.

“Realized they were going broke from lawsuits and started allowing girls in to make up the difference in funding” …  For decades BSA leaders had wanted to allow females into all of its programs, but were internally constrained from doing so because its largest membership block (the LDS Church) was opposed.  As soon as the LDS Church declared they were leaving Scouting, the females were allowed into all programs. There was clear female demand for BSA-style programming as demonstrated by having 80 all-female Scout BSA troops in the DC area and over 300,000 girls belonging nationally.
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