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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because the ACLU and other liberal groups decided to attack only the boy scouts and destroy it.  Girls scouts are small potatoes compared to BSA.   Ergo, we have a weird historical development[/quote]

LOL no, not at all. [b]Girls were clamoring to officially join Boy Scouts back in the 90s when I was going through the program[/b]. Lots of sisters of fellow Boy Scouts would attend like 90% of our events, participate, but were not allowed to earn any of the badges or ranks.

Boy Scouts changed to "Scouts" because out of self-preservation. The organization was in its death throes after the child abuse settlement with victims.

The Mormon Church decided to pull out of Boy Scouts when it was clear the organization needed more independent oversight and their boys composed something like 25% of all Boy Scouts in the U.S.

Admitting girls and changing the name to "Scouts" was just capitalism in action. You need to broaden your customer base to save a failing business. [/quote]

NP. Addressing only the bold above: Teen girls did have the opportunity to join one of Boy Scouts' programs then and for decades before that. When I was in high schol in the early 1980s I was in a BSA program called Explorers, which had troop-like groups of both boys and girls organized around a specific interest. I was an an Explorers troop for vocal performance. There were others in our area -- one was about boating, I think another was around something agricultural (rather like 4H). But absolutely, tween/teen girls participated in BSA's Explorers equally with boys. I don't know if Explorers or something similar continued to exist, but the idea of girls in BSA was not at all a new thing, when BSA started advertising that girls could join "regular" troops.[/quote]

Nothing you described says they participated equally. They didn’t earn ranks like boys and so it wasn’t equal. [/quote]

PP: your argument is the Boy Scouts needed to admit girls to achieve equality.

- how is the Girl Scouts excluding boys contributing to equality ? [/quote]

What? Nobody is making that argument. PP said (as others have) that BSA admits girls for financial reasons, not equality. It was a business choice they made. No one forced them. [/quote]

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