A California Boy Scout leader, who has campaigned to ban gays, atheists, and other assorted heathens from the organization, has been accused of sexually-assaulting some of the young men in his troop. Quoth The New York Times, "Mr. Evans’s [the troop master in question's] lawyer, Philip Schnayerson, said Thursday that “hundreds” of former scouts and friends had called to voice support." (That's kind of creepy. No, it's very creepy.)
The Boy Scouts [not to be confused with the Girl Scouts, who, as a whole, have generally made great strides in including and empowering girls of all backgrounds] have long declared that "homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the traditional values espoused in the Scout Oath and Law and that an avowed homosexual cannot serve as a role model for the values of the Oath and Law."
Maybe the BSA loves those little nonbelievers so much that they're just trying to protect them from their frequently frisky troop leaders. By now, I'm shocked that anyone, homosexual, non-theist, or not, wants to join the Boy Scouts at all.
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My god, isn't this the 50 billionth time that an anti-homosexual person of power has been found assaulting boys? It is this kind of conduct that gives the gay community a bad reputation! If the world was more accepting of homosexuality, then men like this troup leader wouldn't have to resort to assaulting children to get off!
But he could just be a creep in general.
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