Seeding a new troop?

[Sentinel947]

We seeded reasonably amicably. The Catholic troop does not allow non-Catholics to join, so when they learned that some of their members weren't Catholic we were shown the door. Some of the Catholic families left too. Of the 5 families that left, three of us joined a Methodist troop that was down to two boys (there was a mass exodus when they hired a woman pastor.) When the catholic troop realized that they just lost all of their active members, they approached us about being a "sister troop" and we do fundraisers, etc. jointly and split the profits.

As a Catholic, it always drives me nuts to see Catholic only units. One benefit to the Church in sponsoring Scouting is that it helps our Church build positive relationships with the people who join the unit, that's valuable regardless of whether they are Catholic or not.

[perdidochas]

We seeded reasonably amicably. The Catholic troop does not allow non-Catholics to join, so when they learned that some of their members weren't Catholic we were shown the door. Some of the Catholic families left too. Of the 5 families that left, three of us joined a Methodist troop that was down to two boys (there was a mass exodus when they hired a woman pastor.) When the catholic troop realized that they just lost all of their active members, they approached us about being a "sister troop" and we do fundraisers, etc. jointly and split the profits.

Sentinel, I agree totally, as a Catholic. That, and if our Catholic church sponsored troop just had Catholic boys, we'd only have 4 or 5 out of 30.