@Ojo Rojo @Gatorubet@Hagbard Celine
Bringing y'all into the discussion over here so as not to further derail the Tfg America thread.
Regarding the leaving of the LDS, I'm ok with it. They have their own beliefs, one of which included excluding gay people. I was struggling about the concept of rejoining while that whole debate was going on. At that point though, it was theoretical because Chad Jr. hadn't come along yet. Having rejoined Scouting after that whole episode, we've had same sex couples as parents in our Cub unit, but I haven't seen it in our Troop yet. It's a shame the LDS decided to leave over that issue, but I can't see we're worse off for it. All I know for sure is as long as I'm Troop Committee Chair, the only litmus test for kids going camping is whether they want to go camping within the guidelines of the Scout Oath and Law.
Having spoken with my main connection at Scouting HQ yesterday, I get the sense that the super conservative older generation - the ones who stood in the way of co-ed Scouting - are slowly going away. I think that's a good thing for the organization as a whole.
On a more local level, we did have a parent pull their Scout out recently because he thought the Citizenship in Society requirements were "too woke." That's a shame because his son was a real super Scout and was on the fast track to Eagle. Just an all around good kid. Really hated to see him go.