Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts suffer
huge declines in membership
Posted By: Ribicon, 6/30/2021 11:46:35 AM
America’s most iconic youth organizations–the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the USA–have been jolted by unprecedented one-year drops in membership, due partly to the pandemic, and partly to social trends that have been shrinking their ranks for decades. Membership for the BSA’s flagship Cub Scouts and Scouts BSA programs dropped from 1.97 million in 2019 to 1.12 million in 2020, a 43% plunge, according to figures provided to The Associated Press. Court records show membership has fallen further since then, to about 762,000. The Girl Scouts say their youth membership fell by nearly 30%, from about 1.4 million in 2019
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The focus on homosexuality and Marxism certainly didn't help, particularly in the case of the Boy Scouts. That's thanks to the legendary patriot Rex Tillerson.