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Boy Scouts turn to prayer as gay membership decision looms:

Pleas and prayers seems to be the latest defense mechanisms of Boy Scout supporters who don’t want to see membership policies changed to include gays.

Opening up the admission gates to gays in the Boy Scouts is like sending 500 guys that have been starved for six month into a deluxe dinner buffet in Vegas. Some of these people are just salivating at the opportunity to get into closed quarters with the scouts.

In recent days the issue has intensified, as Boy Scout of America leaders mull a change in rules. But conservative groups — in addition to emailing, telephoning and petitioning their views that the Scouts should stand firm with traditional membership policy.

Hasn’t the history of the scouts been enough of a barometer to keep them from opening the flood gates?

As I see it; the admission of the gay members is not their most critical problem and biggest issue, it is the admission of the gay counselors and staff that will soon follow that will be the corker.

Historical documentation of sexual abuse in the scouts:

WIKIPEDIA

Scouting sex abuse by country:

Australia
In 2004, a 48-year-old, former Scout Association of Australia leader in South Australia, Gregory John Kench, was charged with having sex with a 13-year-old boy two times. Kench was sentenced to 10 years in jail. This was his second conviction in five years for sexual abuse against Scouts. The offences occurred in 1991, 1992 and 1993.
In September 2009, a 61-year-old man and former Scout leader in South Australia, was convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year old boy. The abuse took place over four years in the 1980s. The man was not named to save his own teenage son from embarrassment.

Canada
Scouts Canada has had issues with volunteers’ sexually abusing youth in its care. Over the organization’s history of more than 100 years there have been several differing approaches to handling abuse cases, not all of them in a positive manner.
It was reported in a CBC documentary that Scouts Canada had signed out-of-court confidentiality agreements with more than a dozen child sex-abuse victims. These agreements reportedly forbade the youths from revealing the amounts paid or even the fact that there was a settlement and, in one case, from making any public statement regarding the abuse. CBC researchers found that 24 lawsuits had been filed against Scouts Canada since 1995, all concerning incidents between 1960 and the 1990s, with 13 victims signing confidentiality agreements. According to one lawyer who has filed several cases against Scouts Canada in the past, “she could not recall one occasion during the process of resolving a lawsuit when Scouts Canada sought to prevent a plaintiff from talking about the abuse he suffered”.

Two months following the documentary, Scouts Canada’s Chief Commissioner apologized on YouTube to “all former Scouts who suffered harm at the hands of those who abused the trust and responsibility they had gained as volunteer Leaders in our movement”.

Scouts Canada stated in the video that to their knowledge, they had always reported abuse to police, and had asked independent public accounting firm KPMG to audit 350 of their files to ensure “complete confidence”. They also stated that they asked Peter Dudding, CEO of the Child Welfare League of Canada, to review their youth protection policies and make recommendations.

Scouts Canada, upon review of the files by KPMG, has stated that it has not always reported to police its leaders who sexually molested children in Scouting. In some cases, abusers had been “removed discreetly”

The list of abuses and their coverups in the scouts is endless; an organization that’s main purpose is to help develop young men into responsible citizens, . We only know part of what they have disclosed.

Directly out of the Scouts guide book:

The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law to make ethical and moral choices in their lives.

Scout Oath

On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake, and morally straight.

Scout Law

A Scout is:
Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful,
Friendly, Courteous, Kind,
Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty,
Brave, Clean, Reverent

If in the event the leaders of the scouts decide to make a dreadful decision and admit gays; does that mean they are going to change their code of ethics?????

Individual cases of abuse:

Richard Turley is a Canadian who had abused children in California. In 1979, the Boy Scouts of American told Turley to return to Canada, not warning Scouts Canada of Turley’s criminal behavior. In 1996, Turley was convicted of an assault four boys, three of which were scouts, in Victoria, British Columbia. He was sentenced to seven years in prison. A group committee chair had complained about Turley’s behavior and he was told to leave his troop, but he then joined a different troop.
In 1997, John Adams, a former Scouts Canada leader, was sentenced to 16 months in jail for sexually assaulting a young Ottawa, Ontario scout. The abuse occurred from 1979 to 1985, from the time the youth was 9 to 15 years old, and took place in the offender’s home and Scouts Canada properties.

In 2001, Brian Durham, a former Kitchener, Ontario Scout leader, pleaded guilty to 27 counts of assault, sexual touching, and counseling to commit sexual acts. Many more charges were dropped in exchange for his guilty plea. The offenses were committed against 20 children from January 1991 to March 2000. Separately, the court was handling six additional charges against Durham based on offenses he committed in 1973 and 1974 when he was a minor. The charges are under the now-defunct Juvenile Delinquents Act.

England
A 37-year old man from Norwich, England who had been a former Scout leader pleaded guilty in 2009 to five charges of having sex with a child. The sexual activity started about 2004, when the child was 13 years old, and continued for three years. The offender, Julien Pike, was sentenced to four years in jail. In reaction to the case, an official of The Scout Association said, “The association is aware that Julien Pike has pleaded guilty to the charges laid before him. Pike was suspended from any form of contact with the movement as soon as we were aware of the arrest. The Scout Association carries out stringent vetting of all adults who work with young people.”

In April 2011, David Burland, 53, of the 1st Burnham-on-Sea Scout Group in Somerset, was bailed to appear before Taunton Deane Magistrates’ Court after being charged with 12 indecent assaults, 13 counts of sexual assault, four counts of gross indecency and six of inciting a boy to engage in sexual activity. These charges relate to the alleged abuse of boys under the age of 16. Burland also faces a charge of sexual assault and indecent exposure relating to a girl under 16. Burland had been involved in the Scout movement since the 1990s.

On 25 April 2011, 44-year old Steven Etherington, from Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault. He bound the hands and feet of one boy and whipped him with a wet tea towel for not wearing a high-vis vest while cycling. Another boy was staked to the ground and tied to tent pegs in a star shape to teach him not to be ticklish. Etherington was The Scout Associations’ child protection officer, in charge of training scout leaders across the Yorkshire district.

Ireland
In 2003, John O’Leary, a 42-year old man and former Scout leader was sentenced to three years in prison. The Cork City resident and father of two was charged with having performed oral sex on an 11-year old Boy Scout more than 20 years earlier at Scout camps. The victim, who was not named, “…said he had gone through hell since he was sexually assaulted, suffering depression and having relationship problems. He said the day in court was a long time coming, and added that because of the abuse, he had been permanently stained for life.”

In 2008, Wilson Reid, a 49-year-old Scout leader in Portadown, Northern Ireland, was arrested and charged with count of rape, three counts of indecent assault against a male child and one count of supplying intoxicating substances to a person under 18. These incidents took place in 1997 and 1998.

New Zealand
A number of sex abuse cases have occurred in the scouting movement in New Zealand.
In 1996 Donald John MacFarlane was convicted and fined $15,000 for indecently assaulting two boys. He was a scout leader for one of the boys. The abuse happened in Southland between January 1972 and December 1974.

In 1999 David John White, a scout leader in the Porirua suburb of Whitby, pleaded guilty to eight charges of indecently assaulting scouts at his home between 1984 and 1998. Two other scout leaders, Thomas Donahue and Neville Palmer from Whitby, were also prosecuted for indecent assault.

Two Auckland scout leaders, Andrew John Pybus and Nigel Richard Fenemor, were jailed in 2005 for seven years for sexually assaulting two boys under the age of 16.
In 2006 Ken Matheson was found guilty of two cases of sexual assault of a scout between November 1989 and November 1993. Seven allegations were initially made against him.

Scotland
In 2006, Alan Grant, a 42-year old man who had held Scouting leadership positions in Scotland for more than 20 years, admitted to abusing two 15-year old boys in his home in 2006. To entice the boys to visit his home, Grant had set up a “fake camp,” complete with fake parent authorization forms, and obtained the parents’ permission for the boys to attend. Instead, the boys were taken to his home and given alcohol before the abuse took place. He was sentenced to nine months in jail. In response, the Scottish Scouting Association representative said the organization’s background checks were as “robust’ as they could be.”

Earlier in 2006, Paul Firth, a former Scottish Scout Association leader, was jailed for a “indecency involving boys as young as eight between 1974 to 1996”

Kosnoff report:

If that is not enough; digest this.

Information about more than 100 child sex-abuse cases involving the Boy Scouts of America in the past decades was gathered and there are 65,000 pages of documents complied that were suppressed in an attempt to “keep the scouts name clean”. I really believe that the cover-up is almost as bad as the crime, maybe worse.  Just ask the “Right Handers”.

If that in itself is not enough for the Scouts leaders to decide against the admission, I don’t what is. Providing that some of the decision makers are not gay themselves.

The most logical conclusion I can come up with is for the “other side” is to organize a separate organization called “The Gay Scouts of America” or whichever country they represent. This is a viable solution but not what they want. Their motivation is to infiltrate the straight organization so they can corrupt their members. .

I don’t see this as being a very hard decision to make.

I am not implying that every gay person in this world has issues; what I am saying is that the ones that slip through the cracks are enough to vote against their admission.

My friend AC prompted me the do this piece.