Numismatic Nostradamus - US Mint predicts the future

In 2010 the US Mint released the Boy Scouts Commemorative dollar which featured a girl.


United States dollar 2010 Boy Scouts commemorative

In today's news, October 11, 2017:

The Boy Scouts of America announced Wednesday that girls will soon be admitted to the Cub Scouts, and later can join a new program for older girls, a major change for the organization founded more than 100 years ago, NBC News reported.

Girls can join Cub Scout units starting next year, and a program for older girls allowing them to attain the rank of Eagle Scout will be created by 2019, according to the BSA.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/#450447223

 

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That represents a man adult leader, a female adult leader and a Boy Scout.
There have been adult female leaders in Boy Scouts for generations.
And when I was an adult leader in Boy Scouts 20 plus years ago there were some troops around the country there were testing having girls in scouting. In fact I remember one of the manuals that came out around that time that pictured a young girl in uniform with two other Boy Scouts.

 

So the Boy Scouts now accept girls. Recently the Boy Scouts organization voted to accept LBGT. Although I was never in a scouting program, their policies on whom to allow are up to them and not a concern of mine. But I do note that there is still one group of people that Scouting does not allow ... atheists. I know several coin collectors who are atheists.

 

Actually that question doesn't even come into play until a scout reaches the level of Eagle Scout. So really any boy can join Boy Scouts, they just can't be a true atheists and become an Eagle Scout. (But in my experience, very few people who say they are atheists are really true atheists. What they usually are are agnostics if you question them closely about their beliefs.) The Boy Scouts are very liberal on that "atheists" term. I was told and it was practiced, at least in the council I was part of, that all a boy has to believe in was that there was something greater them himself. So the question to a boy wasn't if they believed in Christ, or God, or Mohammad, etc, just if they believed in something greater than themselves. Now in some church sponsored troops, you had to be a Baptist or Catholic or Mormon, etc. But in that case a boy could just look for a troop that was not sponsored by such a strict group. The troop my son was in was sponsored by the Nights of Columbus (A Catholic men's group), and believe me, we were not Catholic. But my son made Eagle in that troop.

PS - I just have to add this. I was talking to guy one night in a bar who claimed to be an atheists. After going around and around with him about a God or no God, I asked about Mother Nature. I said, "Well, about about Mother Nature, is that a force in the universe?" His reply, "Of course, Mother Nature is a force greater that all of us." I said, "So then you are not an atheists." He looked up at the ceiling for a long time in thought and finally said, "Damn, your right!"

 

Supposedly the Boy Scouts themselves were the ones who wanted that design.

 

You are right. Religion and coins - not a good mix. All that's missing is a little politics and we'd really be in a mess.
Gee! - wasn't that a beautiful and thoughtful design on that scout medal.