The first teaching: We generally don’t do a Scout Sunday like the annual Primary presentation, where the entire focus of the meeting is Scouting. This is a good teaching — but this isn’t a ban on Scouts and Scouters wearing uniforms in LDS sacrament meetings on Scout Sunday. Indeed, they are specifically invited to do so.

The second teaching: Aaronic-priesthood holders wearing uniforms are honorably excused from administering the ordinance on a ward’s Scout Sunday. This is also a good teaching, intended to avoid drawing any attention away from the ordinance itself. It isn’t because the uniform is unclean or unworthy, it is just to keep the worship focus properly aimed. May young men administer the sacrament in their uniforms on other occasions? Yes. When LDS scouts are away from home over a Sunday, they certainly may administer the sacrament in uniform. Witness: the sacrament meetings at Philmont Scout Ranch and the sacrament meetings at national jamborees — the Brethren generally approve the first, and the President of the Church presides at the second. A key point: young men wearing uniforms are HONORABLY excused from administering the sacrament in the home ward’s Scout Sunday.

I wouldn’t put it quite like that. I would say that scouting is _grossly_ overemphasized. The blank check the Church writes BSA only perpetuates several of the problems inherent in the relationship. And I don’t know how that relationship is so critical if it can only benefit 45% of members (and shrinking – to me it’s like saying American members are better for not using the metric system.) If I thought my not finishing Eagle was so important in the eternal scheme of things, I don’t think I’d be that active in the Church now. Something about the Varsity coach (who didn’t think I was really worthy to finish Eagle) sabotaging my project.

The majority of the names on the Eagle plaque in my parents’ ward did not serve missions. (Why should they have? The big push for them in Young Men was Eagle Scout, along with basketball and softball and maybe early-morning seminary.) Those who did would have anyway. And that ward doesn’t have a missionary plaque, though others in the stake do. (I’m not the only one who’d be on that plaque, who isn’t on the Eagle plaque.)

That is a good point you raise their. I am in a stake position regarding ym and I am not sure how we actually register inactive boys. I am not sure if parents even need to sign any type of registration form. Now I am wondering how this should be handled. Because there are lots of inactive boys registered and I am sure that many of them and their parents are not aware of their scout registration.

If somebody knows let me know.