The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon church, has announced it is cutting ties with the Boy Scouts after 105 years.
The Boy Scouts will lose 425,000 boys once the Mormon church departs for good.
The announcement comes a week after the Boy Scouts announced it was accepting girls and changing its name to BSA Scouts of America.
The Mormons decision to sever ties with the Boy Scouts will take effect December 31, 2019, the Salt Lake City Tribune reported.
The Mormon church’s decision comes 5 years after the Scouts voted to allow openly gay boys.
The organization caved to liberal pressure and will begin allowing girls to join the ranks this year.
Three years ago, the Boy Scouts admitted openly gay Scout leaders into the fold. The Mormons said it would continue to participate after the Boy Scouts confirmed “the right of all religious chartered organizations to select their Scout leaders in accordance with their religious beliefs,” the Deseret News reported.
In May of last year, the church decided to drop Scouting from its church programs for boys aged 14-17, after the Scouts’ decision to accept “transgender” boys — i.e. girls pretending to be boys — into the organization, according to the Deseret News.
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