Hey! While you're at it, why not smear the Boy Scouts as well? With little effort you could find other examples of Eagle Scouts being murderers and being criminally insane.
By the way, I am the **proud** holder of an Eagle Scout mom's pin.
As an Eagle Scout myself, I hate seeing stories like this. But I think most people can differentiate between someone’s actions and a group they belong to.
This is no different than CBS saying that a murderer, who was in the Army at some point, was driven to it because of the Army, without knowing the person at all.
(Oh, I didn't know that the Boy Scouts of America touted their Eagle Scouts to be impeccable "gods in embryo"...I didn't know that Boy Scout membership = "THE channel through which ALL KNOWLEDGE, DOCTRINE, THE PLAN OF SALVATION AND EVERY IMPORTANT MATTER IS REVEALED FROM HEAVEN”
Simply put: If your leaders elevate you as the spiritual elite of all the earth -- at the level of divinity -- we expect a bit more than from the average "devout religious adherent," wouldn't you say?
To give an extreme example, we would expect more from the Pope, from the Dalai Lama, from a Mother Teresa, than we would from the person who is religiously devout in serving others at your local food bank. Were any of those three to have committed murder, I don't think we'd see your murder advocate apologetics at threads trying to defend any of them as murderers, claiming that their religious identity shouldn't even matter re: the amount of media attention they might receive.
(But, hey, I understand...people are just ignorant about identity claims made by Mormons about their people...and it shows quite well in your comments & Raider Sam's)