deafdyke said:
Heath, FOA, the number of gay men who molest boys is VERY VERY low! As a matter of fact, I remmy reading that even a lot of NAMBLA types are hetrosexual!!!!!!!
It is a FACT that the person MOST likely to be a child molester is a STRAIGHT MALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Deafdyke, Here is an article and a link at the bottom of the article to set the record straight.
Gays’ Allies Besiege Boy Scouts
Despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that the Boy Scouts of America is entitled to ban homosexual leaders, sympathetic groups are waging war against the Scouts.
Organizations including American Civil Liberties Union, National Education Association, American Medical Association and many United Way chapters are using their influence in an attempt to force the BSA to abandon a policy meant to protect its young members from homosexual predators.
A year ago in a 5-4 opinion in BSA vs. James Dale, the Supreme Court recognized the Boy Scouts' constitutional right to freedom of association. As a private organization, it has the right to set its own moral code and ban homosexual leaders and members.
The decision set off a firestorm among homosexual groups, which set out to win support for their efforts to coerce the BSA into admitting homosexuals as leaders.
Since then, the campaign has spread across the nation. Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Scouting for All and other homosexual rights groups have won heterosexual adherents to their cause.
As a result, at least 359 school districts in 10 states have taken action against the Boy Scouts because of the ban, according to Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN).
"And something over 40 United Ways have defunded the Boy Scouts because of its policy," Dave Rice, head of the 7,000-member, California-based Scouting for All, told the Washington Times this week.
Last week, delegates to NEA’s Representative Assembly adopted a proposal calling for the teachers union to "urge state and local affiliates to work with school boards to establish policies requiring that all private organizations using school facilities have nondiscriminatory membership policies."
"There's been unprecedented movement by non-gays to address the Boy Scouts' discrimination," David Buckel, senior staff attorney for Lambda Legal Defense, told the Times. "We've never seen anything like it."
Lambda represented James Dale in his failed legal fight with the Boy Scouts. Dale became a scoutmaster at age 18, but the Boy Scouts expelled him after learning he headed a homosexual group at Rutgers University.
David Smith, spokesman for HRC, the nation's largest homosexual political organization, insists that most of the actions against the Boy Scouts in the past year have been "spontaneous and organic," not the result of pressure groups.
"To my knowledge, nobody's been on the phone, calling the United Way, churches, school systems" or corporations, urging them to cut off the Boy Scouts, he told the Times.
But Jim Anderson, a spokesman for GLSEN, acknowledges that group's 90 chapters have campaigned to get government school systems that sponsor Boy Scout troops to end those affiliations. "We're not taking issue with the Scouts' right to equal access. We say schools should not be running discriminatory programs," he told the Times.
ACLU, which assisted Lambda Legal Defense in the Dale case, is involved in some suits to end what it calls "special treatment" of the Boy Scouts.
Early this month, the presidents of nine of the Boy Scouts' more than 300 councils urged the Boy Scouts to change their policy on homosexuals. They included heads of the New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Minneapolis councils.
All across the nation school boards have been under pressure to deny BSA the use of school facilities. In Broward County, Fla., which had originally resisted issuing such a ban, caved in when a local homosexual convinced them that the ban could harm youths.
"I am 34 and an Eagle Scout, and I could not accept the fact that the Boy Scouts has a policy that could hurt youth in the community. I couldn't sit back and let that happen," Mark LaFontaine, a homosexual, told the Times.
When the Broward County school board's "diversity committee" examined the Boy Scouts' ban on homosexual leaders, it took no action because there had been no complaints. In response, LaFontaine made himself a test case and "applied for a leadership position" with a troop in the Fort Lauderdale area and was turned down, he told the Times.
Late last year, he took his story to the full board. The school board voted to cut its ties with 57 Scout troops. The Scouts sued, claiming the school board had violated the Scouts' rights to free speech. According to the Times, last March a judge issued an injunction, preventing the board from ousting the Boy Scouts.
History of Abuse
Ignored by supporters of the campaign is the long and continuing record of abuse of young Scouts by gay Scout leaders.
These are among the cases of homosexual abuse by adult Scout leaders the press has reported in just the last few months:
FBI waiting when alleged sex offender shows up (March 9, 2001, Atlanta Constitution) When Robert Landrum Shirley walked into a video arcade in Roswell Saturday afternoon (March 3) he was looking for sex with a teen-age boy, authorities said. Instead, the former Boy Scout leader found the FBI's Innocent Images Task Force.
According to Atlanta Area Council BSA spokeswoman Lisa Dukes, Shirley, 42, was a Boy Scout leader from at least 1985 to 1990. That year allegations surfaced about him, and the Boy Scouts determined he was no longer eligible to participate, Dukes said. A young boy in Cobb County had complained to his church about inappropriate behavior on Shirley's part. The Boy Scouts passed the information on to the Department of Family and Children Services.
Ex-Scout leader pleads guilty to sex charges (April 5, 2001 - Ottawa Citizen)
Timothy John Parris, 36, who plied two of his teen-age cadets with alcohol as they watched pornographic videos and engaged in sexual games, pleaded guilty to sex charges. He admitted to one count each of sexual exploitation and invitation to sexual touching.
One of Parris's victims held his girlfriend's hand and wept as he looked on from the rear of the courtroom. Parris is the former leader of the 26th Sea Venturers, a branch of Scouts Canada.
Former Boy Scout assistant charged with molesting scouts 15 years ago (April 13, 2001 - Ohio News)
Dale T. Brant, 38, was indicted on 23 counts of third-degree sexual assault. He was arrested at his New Manchester home by West Virginia State Police. In 2000, two men said Brant repeatedly molested them between April 1985 and October 1986, when they were both 12 years old, said Hancock County Prosecutor James Davis.
Scout leader's sentence criticized (April 25, 2001 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Relatives of three young boys who were bound and physically abused by a Boy Scout leader on an overnight campout said they were appalled by the light sentence imposed on the defendant in a Westmoreland County, Pa., courtroom.
John T. Levendosky II, the assistant scoutmaster who pleaded guilty two months ago to 18 charges stemming from the incident and has been in jail about 10 1/2 months, will be eligible for parole in about a month and a half under the sentence handed down by Common Pleas Judge William J. Ober. Ober ordered Levendosky, of Derry Borough, to a maximum of two years in the Westmoreland County Prison, giving him credit for the time he has spent in prison since his arrest.
Scouts leader charged with sex crimes (May 2, 2001 Evansville Courier & Press/AP).
Boy Scout troop leader Steve Woodard, 41, of Muncie, Ind., accused of molesting three brothers, has been charged with child molesting and sexual misconduct with a minor. Woodard remained in the Delaware County jail Wednesday morning (May 2) with bond set at $80,000.
Two of the alleged victims had been members of Woodard's Scout troop, based out of Riverside United Methodist Church, authorities said. Woodard was suspended Tuesday by the Boy Scouts of America, police said.
Investigators said scouting officials had met with troop members to inform them of the arrest. One of the victims, now in his late teens, told investigators he had been molested by Woodard as many as 100 times over the past several years.
Defendant: Sex wasn't abusive (May 10, 2001 - Orange County Register)
The tall man in the dark-blue suit made his opening statement to jurors Wednesday. "I'm a pedophile, he admitted.
"I'm not going to stand here and say these acts didn't occur - because they did," said a well-groomed and articulate Kenneth Teague, representing himself in a lurid sex-abuse trial in Santa Ana, Calif. ... It has to do with "courage and kindness and trust and love," said Teague, a former computer consultant in Irvine.
Hardly, said Deputy District Attorney Randy Payne, who painted Teague as a manipulative opportunist who abused his positions in the Boy Scouts, Big Brothers and foster-parent programs to seduce vulnerable boys.
Former Scout leader guilty of sex charge (May 23, 2001 - Ottawa Citizen)
A former Ottawa assistant Scout leader admitted yesterday to asking a 14-year-old troop member to re-enact a pornographic film with him. Michael Dickey, 25, who was expected to go to trial yesterday on one count of sexual assault and three counts of sexual exploitation, pleaded guilty to one of the sexual exploitation charges.
The former assistant Sea Venturers leader, who quit the scouting movement in 1997, and another leader, Timothy Parris, were arrested in May 1999 after two boys complained to police about an incident that occurred the same year Dickey quit. Parris pleaded guilty in April to one count of sexual exploitation and one count of invitation to sexual touching. He's scheduled to be sentenced next month.
Scout Leader Faces Boy Sex Rap (May 23, 2001 - New York Daily News)
An Upper East Side scoutmaster was accused of sex abuse yesterday by a former Boy Scout who claims he was assaulted dozens of times in the troop leader's Manhattan apartment and on campouts and overnight trips. The allegations were made in a $50 million lawsuit that targets scoutmaster Jerrold Schwartz, who has led Troop 666 at the prestigious St. Bartholomew's Church for two decades.
"Jerrold Schwartz is a pedophile. We brought this lawsuit to stop him from having contact with children," the former Scout's attorney, Michael Dowd, said yesterday. Schwartz, 41, declined to comment.
The Greater New York Council of the Boy Scouts of America announced later he had been fired as scoutmaster.
Judge denies pleas to close molest trial (June 19, 2001 - Boston Herald)
One boy's post-traumatic stress is so bad, he has not eaten, slept or socialized normally in months. Another boy punches holes in walls as he struggles with his confusion and anger. Several of the youngsters fear being labeled as gay if they are even identified as victims of accused serial pedophile Christopher J. Reardon.
Those are among the accounts of anguished parents who wrote letters hoping to persuade a judge yesterday to close the courtroom when their children testify against Reardon in his upcoming trial.
``My son has been relentlessly tormented at school by boys who knew he was in Boy Scouts and therefore suspected he might be one of Reardon's victims,'' wrote the mother of one boy, now 12 years old, who Reardon is accused of molesting while videotaping the act.
NAMBLA Can Hardly Wait
Finally, there is this gem from the pedophile group North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA).
In 1992, NAMBLA sent a letter to Ben Love, then chief Scout executive of the Boy Scouts of America. The following letter is an excerpt from NAMBLA's Bulletin and written by its co-secretary:
"Dear Mr. Love,
At its 16th membership conference, held in Chicago, August 7-9, 1992, the North American Man/Boy Love Association unanimously adopted the following resolution: 'NAMBLA calls on the Boy Scouts of America to cease its discrimination against openly gay or lesbian persons in the appointment of its scout masters. This will permit more of those individuals who genuinely wish to serve boys to do so.' I feel especially honored to have been asked to alert you of this resolution... I have also been a scout and scout leader and share with so many in NAMBLA affection for the movement. We recognize, of course, that the action for which we call is inevitable. What a great added contribution your organization will make possible to all the boys and girls who participate in it when you take this step. May it be taken in the near future. We share a common mission - to bring greater understanding and light and purpose to the young as they grow. We invite you to join with us in cherishing individual integrity, and in seeking the opportunity for every boy and girl in our country to find their own truth. We encourage you to help every person associated with your organization to be able to express those values from themselves which to them represent for themselves the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. As we work together toward these ends Light will guide our way. We express these sentiments most respectfully, Very Cordially, Lehand Stevenson, C0-Recording Secretary, NAMBLA.
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