CaT, you wrote:
"Ken - Perhaps scouting is going through a particularly soul-searching or rebuilding time at the moment compared to past decades; but I doubt your words were meant to brand the entire organization (and by that, I don't mean just its administration) as corrupt or without merit."

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! I actually think well of scouting, in spite of their various faults, and I think they do a lot of good. You've obviously gotten a sense of me by my writing, and I thank you for your giving me the latitute.