Baden Francis, 12, said he’s happy he can keep going to camp, have fun with friends and hopefully Online Cigarettes Store USA one day become an Eagle Scout like his big brothers.
Mark Francis called the split a good move for both sides. The church gets the global youth program it long wanted, and the Boy Scouts of America gets rid of kids who didn’t like it.
“Scouting will be smaller, but stronger,” he said.
As of 2013, there were more than 430,000 Latter-day Saint boys in the Boy Scouts. The latest tally Newport Cigarettes Shop of the Scouts' total youth membership was about 2.2 million last year, and its press office confirmed that the church exodus would push that number close to 1.8 million.
The Scouts declined to estimate the financial repercussions of the faith’s departure, saying the church paid a flat fee that varied from year to year, rather than paying based on individual membership fees.
Boy Scout membership has been declining steadily for several decades, due to a variety of factors, including the allure Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes of video games and the proliferation of youth sports leagues. Even with the admission of 150,000 girls, and the extension of the Cub Scout program to kindergartners, there’s been no sign that the decline will end soon.