"For two decades, the BSA has been stacking its national board with elitist execs, because they hobnob around in wealthy circles and can collect money for national BSA projects. While most BSA regional Councils like the one I serve are self-supporting, and in fact send a small percentage of locally raised funds to support the BSA corporate office, the national BSA board has obligated itself to major real estate developments that are seriously underfunded -- thus, the pursuit of affluent board members as the solution. But the BSA is, first and foremost, a faith-based organization, and the idolatry of wealth inevitably repels faith as oil does water. Consequently, stacking the national board with corporate elitists has resulted in the same decay in the BSA that it has in other once-great institutions across the nation. Indeed, "The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." And that evil is greatly amplified when such men are in positions of power, because, in the words of Lord Acton, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:58:54 +0000
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