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But that is not what is going to happen.

Not every town is like here where there are multiple options for each activities. Our neighborhood has around a dozen boy scout troops within a five minute drive. My home town and many other have one, maaybe two. What you are going to have in many parts of the country is a situation where a girl who wants to be a Boy Scout will need to drive 45 minutes or more to find a troop that accepts girls.

So what are these girls going to do? They are going to fight (and likely take it online, viral or to the media) to fight to force these single gender Boy Cout troops to become coed. Separate but equal will not be equal or fair at all, especially as it takes time to get a critical mass of people to create a program. Tye first time a girl is told they cannot join their local Boy Scout troop or Cub Scout pack and have to drive an hour to find a girls' Boy Scout troop or coed Cub Scout den, there is going to be a huge battle, bigger than what they dealt with on the gay scout issue because BSA is starting off by telling people they can have separate, boy only Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts. Tuey are opening Pandora's box and it is not going to result in the membership bump they are hoping for.[/quote]

But now they have an option -- they can be invited to start their own Cub Scout for Girls Pack.

If the only Pack in town has decided to be a Cub Scout for Boys Pack, then they could even decide to start a Cub Scout for Families Pack. And if they did a decent job, they'd probably steal away the boys in the Cub Scout for Boys pack, but that's not their fault.[/quote]

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