The Boy Scouts of America has found itself at the center of shifting American mores over the last few years, and it has responded in kind. In 2013 the organization announced it would allow openly gay boys into its membership. In 2015 it allowed gay men to be scout leaders.
Some church-based, and often less-experienced, scout leaders also lack the appropriate amount of respect or appreciate for the wilderness they’re climbing through. The leaders who knocked over ancient rock formations in Goblin Valley State Park in 2013 are painful reminders.
Its easy to conclude that the church made its decision based on the BSA’s controversial, and increasingly liberal, decisions over the last few years.