These allegation are astonishing to me. I spent seven years in Boy Scouts, in Atlanta back in the sixties. Started in Cub Scouts, then Boy Scouts, then Explorers. My brother was in Scouts with me.
I loved it! I was a suburban kid and my father had no interest in camping out or shooting guns. I loved those camp outs in Scouts and we went out about once a month.
In Boy Scouts, I went to Camp Bert Adams every summer for a week, one summer went for 2 weeks. We had a rifle range at Bert Adams and I got to shoot a .22 single shot, man, I thought I was Wild Bill Hickok. Loved it.
was in Explorers for 2 years and we had all kinds of camp outs, explored caves in n. Georgia etc.
So I knew hundreds of Scouts over the years, and had many many advisors, Scout leaders etc. I never heard a word about any kind of sex pervert stuff going on. Most of our Scout leaders were combat veterans of WW2. These were tough men and certainly didn't seem like a pervert.
You would think, if this stuff was going on, I might have seen a Scout leader luring some kid to his tent at midnight, or someone would have passed a rumor to me about this kind of thing. Hell at Camp Bert Adams there must have been 2,000 Scouts there for a week, but I never heard a peep about any of this kind of stuff.
It started in the 90's when Levi Strauss pulled their funding of the BSA because they didn't allow queer scout leaders. Then the queers started going to other sponsors and blackmailed them into doing the same thing. Instead of standing up to them, the BSA leadership folded and started allowing queer leaders and later queer scouts. Their membership dropped dramatically and they started allowing girls to make up the difference. That backfired, too.
Many troops are church sponsored and Christian churches won't put up with that. 6 or 7 years ago, they formed Trail Life USA and several other faith based programs that are similar to the scouts. Those groups are exploding all across the country. Trail Life has around 30k members and is growing rapidly. All troops are sponsored by churches and they're very anal with their background checks of leaders to insure that queers and pedophiles aren't there.
By the end of this year, the Mormon church will be out, too, taking close to 200k members off the roles. They're forming their own program but I don't know anything about it.