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National Review: God Decrees Man Should Be Armed to the Teeth

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)1/28/2013 1:28:10 pm PST

re: #140 TedStriker

I’m not normally one to pimp my Pages (it’s not like I post many to begin with, but hey), but I just had to pimp this one:

USA Today: Boy Scouts may end gay ban next week

The (corporate) money talks and, apparently, National is now listening; it’s about damn time.

I was curious about how the current BSA membership is distributed in the US; e.g. is it concentrated in any particular region of the country. Quick Google search did not not come up with anything.

The Wikipedia article on the BSA did supply some interesting facts. It looks like Cub Scout and Boy Scout membership is declining - that would probably be a driving factor here.

The same article also mentioned that the local councils (~300 of them) handle a lot of the day-to-day running in the various regions. And your page indicates that it looks like the national board is going to kick this down to that level to allow action/inaction on this issue. Where that leads is probably that it will be a simmering on-going internal discussion there. There is also a pretty close relationship between Scouting and churches it seems (and PTA/education groups to a lesser extent), so I wonder if this is also part a symptom of the on-going issues some church groups are also having with getting and retaining younger members.