Commentary: LDS boys will lose when Mormons leave Scouts

(Rick Egan | Tribune File Photo) Boy Scouts say the scout oath, at Provo's Stadium of Fire, in Lavell Edwards Stadium in Provo, Saturday, July 3, 2010. A record number of Boy scouts got their Eagle Badges tonight,I am saddened and disappointed by the LDS Church’s decision to leave the Scouts BSA (formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America).

I have fond memories of scouting in my LDS Church-sponsored troop as a young boy. I remember attending summer camp at Steiner and East Fork of the Bear, where I learned to rappel and paddle a canoe. I broke both of my legs in (separate) accidents on scout trips and once had to be airlifted out of Big Cottonwood Canyon in a helicopter, but that didn’t…