re: #409 TedStriker

Because, to my understanding, unlike the GSA, the overwhelming majority of chartered organizations for BSA units are churches:

en.wikipedia.org

Until those numbers flip, any progress on allowing atheists and agnostics as BSA members will be very slow. Also, in the same vein, Scouting is very much a big thing out in Red State America, outside of the urban centers, and those units (and their chartering organizations) can be just as socially conservative.

It’s a long row to hoe, but, in the long run, it do believe major changes will eventually be made IRT to atheists and agnostics in Scouting; hell, if you’d told me that Scouting would at least let gay youth be members (for shame on the still-in-force prohibition of gay adult members, though, but that’ll change too eventually) even ten years ago, I wouldn’t have believed you, but it was way overdue.

Ah, I did not know that. I didn’t know that BSA wasn’t an independent organization, i.e. chartered its own chapters. Thanks much for the explanation.