One of last week’s top stories was about a Boy Scout who had earned, but was being denied, the rank of Eagle Scout. His scoutmaster refused to nominate him for the honor because the kid was homosexual. Then one of yesterday’s top news stories had to do with the Boy Scouts of America being forced to release files they had kept hidden for years, files on leaders and volunteers accused of inappropriate sexual conduct with boys.
While the disclosures are disturbing, they should not be surprising. Like the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts thought that it was in their best interest to stifle publicity about pedophiles in their ranks, and like the Church, the Scouts provide a target rich hunting ground for men with those proclivities.
We actually had one such Scout Leader when I was a kid, although – as far as I know – he never made any advances toward any member of our troop. We might never had known about him except that during divorce proceedings his wife accused him of being homosexual and produced a collection of pornography featuring young boys.
His son, a member of our troop, was another story. We all knew that he was weird as Hell.
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