There are certainly complaints to be made about the BSA policies as an organization but I wouldn’t hold that against someone who went through scouting.

From one side its overt religious bias. From the other it's being too inclusive by admitting girls.

Hmm yeah, one of those seems a lot more rational than the others... but I suppose if I were to say which one someone would claim that it's just my partisan bias.

i think it was the 90s or early aughts, there was a lot of media-heavy and forth about gay scoutmasters. and I guess gay scouts too.

For the big ones, read about the history of scouting, including when BSP visited Portland OR. You'll understand right away.

That is the worst homework assignment ever: read the complete history of Boy Scouts, including when an unexpanded not-common acronym visited Portland.

Was a link asking too much?

https://scoutingmagazine.org/issues/0811/d-wwas.html I assume this is a reference to the political fracas that Baden-Powell encountered with a group of Socialists in Portland.

what's BSP?

I assume this is a malformed initialism for Baden-Powell, scouting’s founder.