Wouldn't it just be a repeat of the boyscouts where someone like obama forces diversity in and ruins the whole thing?
Putin's Judo Club was entirely non-political, and the only politics publicly expressed was all standard Soviet Communism approved by the Soviet state. Putin himself was a KGB officer, and many of the club's members were KGB and military officers. None of them were proles.
Their actual ideological activity (Orthodox Christianity) was entirely private. Involving close friends in the Russian sense.
In Russia, you don't call another man a friend until you and he were involved for years, or even decades, with each other's significant private events (birthdays, weddings, office commissions, etc).
A concept completely missing in American culture.