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"Bring us back to why we should like the BSA (or not) ... \n  \n\n\"First reason why: Fruits of the Spirit (FotS) explicitly only applies to Christians. In the USA, only about 73-76% of the population self-identifies as Christian. So in the classroom, FotS would only apply to three-quarters of the students. What about the other 25%? You'd have to tell them that it doesn't apply to them, since they're not Christian. You would effectively be telling them that those ideals are not for them So what are you tell them to aspire to?\" \n  \n\nPutting aside how many Christians actually have a clue about the Fruit of the Spirit (let alone it's context or that it is singular) and that it may possibly apply to them as they build their communities (a much smaller figure than DW's generous count above) .... \n  \n\nThere are probably far fewer people who have said the Scout Law even once.  Certainly not most women (not even our Venturers, yet).  So, much less than 50%. How popular does an institution have to be before it becomes part of of an American school student's lexicon?  I've heard the occasional public speaker refer to it.  Membership statistics aside, has it become a bit of a national Icon?  So much so, that if the institution continues its decline, will it be an inexorable part of our history books? \n  \n\nOr is it just a blip on the radar of progress? \n"
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