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littlemissmartypants

(34,339 posts) Sat Sep 20, 2025, 08:39 AM Sep 2025

Scouting America's latest data, faith-based organizations account for 42% of 40,000 chartered organizations

According to Scouting America's latest data, faith-based organizations account for 42% of the nearly 40,000 units operated by chartered organizations.

https://religionnews.com/2025/09/18/how-faith-based-support-is-helping-scouting-america-stabilize/

According to Scouting America's latest data, faith-based organizations account for 42% of the nearly 40,000 units operated by chartered organizations.
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Scouting America's latest data, faith-based organizations account for 42% of 40,000 chartered organizations (Original Post) littlemissmartypants Sep 2025 OP

That's not too shocking. Their LDS-forced policies in the early 2000s forced them out of public schools. Gore1FL Sep 2025 #1

Got to have space and continuity. Igel Dec 2025 #2

Gore1FL

(22,981 posts)

1. That's not too shocking. Their LDS-forced policies in the early 2000s forced them out of public schools.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 09:00 AM

Sep 2025

They played the victim, but it their anti-inclusion is what caused it.

Igel

(37,613 posts)

2. Got to have space and continuity.

Reply to Gore1FL (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 25, 2025, 06:37 PM

Dec 2025

Around here it's mostly churches (and perhaps a synagogue and an "Islamic center"--to not use the word "mosque&quot that sponsor them.

Officially they're open to all, but often LDS or mosques will have practices or restrictions that non-believers would find inconvenient or their parents find incorrect or vaguely preachy.

Some elementary schools sponsor cub scouts. That's permitted (neither encouraged nor discouraged).

More political organizations shouldn't.

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