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The Boy Scouts of America are considering filing for bankruptcy in the wake of sexual abuse lawsuits and declining membership.

The Wall Street Journal reported Boy Scout leaders have hired Chicago law firm Sidley Austin for help in a potential Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing

The Scouts, which are based in Irving, have faced numerous sexual abuse lawsuits in the past few years.

On a national level, a lawsuit filed in Stamford, Connecticut, said the organization should have done more to stop a former scoutmaster from allegedly molesting boys in the 1970s. Another lawsuit filed on Dec. 4 in Muncie, Indiana, says a volunteer engaged in sex acts with a 15-year-old Scout, the Star Press reported.

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The Boy Scouts has also reportedly lost two-thirds of its members — about 4 million boys — since the 1970s, the Wall Street Journal reported.

In other struggles, the Mormon church recently denounced the Scouts and pulled its 400,000 boys from the program, AP reported.

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https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state...e223031525.html

This is, in part, the legacy of Rex Tillerson who, when President of the BSA, argued long and hard for the Scouts to accept out homosexuals as members. Such a policy violated that part of the Oath that scouts are to be "morally straight" and it caused churches like the Latter Day Saints to withdraw from participation.