The policy of discrimination requires some people to discriminate, when their own religious beliefs forbid such discrimination. As a social matter, discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation has recently been a divisive question in many communities. A number of communities have enacted anti discrimination ordinances. It seems clear that the national debate relating to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is well under way, and that such a national agreement is emerging. The BSA is utterly dependent on such support.
Troops meet in schools and churches, and go camping in parks, without paying rent.
To pay rent for these facilities would be well beyond the means of most troops. Access to facilities is also access to the boys who use those facilities. The BSA is dependent for its membership on the good will of school and church officials. If the BSA looses access to the facilities of only a few denominations, and of only a few of the largest school districts, it could loose access to more than half of the boys in the nation. By pursuing a policy that alienates school districts and churches, the BSA is also cutting itself off from its source of members.