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citta3 says:
The Boy Scouts are a self-serving cult. Hear about the boys who got burned at boy scout camp in jersey? Supervisor of minor counselors went to the store, bought a bottle of rubbing alcohol and showed the minors how to light it up in a ring of fire, bottle got hot and threw it on the other boys - one died, another severely burned. The camp was so poorly run by the boy scouts that "fireplay" became a sport there. The boy scouts paint a different picture of it just being a freak accident. Really? Why was the eagle scout supervisor charged with third degree aggravated assault? Just another boy scout cover-up.
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Jimmyz007 says:
The subject of the matter is did the ,"Boy Scouts," have the knowledge before hand to keep the boys safe from harm. Homosexuality is not what is in question here,but that of an adult and child sexuality which is against the law.
Though the boy scouts don't believe they are at fault or should be blamed for this act, they were in custody and care of the children and their responsibility to keeping harm from them.
Therefore any files they may have, secret or otherwise, should have been used to verify quality leadership. It does seem the boy scouts were negligent in the fact of the boy scout leader confessed to 17 other children and to still keep him leading a group of other children.
Homosexuality , should not be a problem here and that is not the argument here, because there is a fine line difference in Homosexuality and Pedophilia.
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KHLady7 says:
This has nothing to do with homosexuality! The PEDOPHILES are the ones that need to stay away and be locked up for good.
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kamsack50 says:
This doesn't raise much fuss on the internet. Too baldly a homosexual issue and we must protect the gay community from criticism.
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tmittelstaed says:
"...The Boy Scouts of America has a terrible image problem that it has architected by itself. A lot a good young men joined and quit this organization because of it's open aggressions against, non-Christians, gays, females, latins, asians or blacks...(Atheists, too)..."

Oh come off it. I was a boy in Scouting in the late 70's and early 80's and there was no "open agression" against those people at that time. As for Scouts being against women, that's like saying the Girl Scouts are against men.

As far as the BSA being against gays, well think about it, where did most if not all of the volunteers that worked in Scouting come from? They were the PARENTS of the boys. At that time very few gays had children. More do nowadays. So why would there have been gays in Scouting then?

No doubt the verdict will be reduced on appeal, but the big problem here is BSA should have reported the Scout leader to the police as soon as they heard about the abuse. For that, they do deserve the verdict. But they don't deserve the verdict because of being white supremicists because they are not.
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pensacola8-2009 says:
The Boy Scouts of America has a terrible image problem that it has architected by itself. A lot a good young men joined and quit this organization because of it's open aggressions against, non-Christians, gays, females, latins, asians or blacks. $29 million dollars is not enough to bankrupt this corrupted organization of white supremists.
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Aine57 replies:
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Atheists, too. And yet scouting can be such a WONDERFUL experience. It's a darn shame that they haven't come to their senses.
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HiTor15 says:
I knew a kid whose brother was also molested, and I have heard this too is rampant.... the Catholic church has also paid for damages....and in this regard, it was proper that they did.
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RCC_Soldaten replies:
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as should public schools, day cares, physicians, orphanges and on and on and on...