Honestly, I’d rather know than not know. Hidden gay scout leaders have plagued Boy Scouts forever.
Just remember, Jerry Sandusky was married to a woman, a lot of the perverts are not going to come out and say they’re gay.
1919 - British Scout Commissioner William de Bois Maclaren bought the dilapidated Chinnery estate north of London in Sewardstonebury, Epping Forest, close to Chingford, for £7,000. He spent an additional £3,000 for improvements to the house that was on the estate. He donated all of it to the Scout Association of the U.K. to provide a camping ground for London scouts and a training site for scouters. It was re-named Gilwell Park. The 1st Wood Badge course was held at GP during 9/08-19/1919. Wood Badge training continued at GP, and it became the home of leadership training in the Scout movement. During the early 1920s there were several officially reported incidents of adult male volunteers sexually molesting male youth campers at GP.
That's an interesting insight. I have often thought the same about homosexuals who get married and then "discover" they are gay and then want to divorce and have joint custody, raising the children in the company of their GLBT partner. You wish they would not use others to work out their mess. The question is how long it takes a person to make this "discovery."
Life is so messy. And it's rarely black and white. I think the pendulum may swing back to a middle position, but not for another 50-60 years or so.
When alcohol was prohibited and then allowed again, alcoholism re-emerged as an illness that could be treated. Let's hope that the stories of children raised by gay parents will start to influence the debate going forward. Here's a sobering one: