I am sorry but one can’t hide behind the label pedophile because it is a much worse word than homosexual. But someone can definitely be a homosexual and a pedophile.
The obvious question to ask is why would a homosexual (who is not a parent of a boy in the troop) want to get involved in scout leadership? It is very difficult to imagine a 100% pure self-sacrificing motive.
Wouldn’t someone look with suspicion on a man who volunteers to be the towel boy for a junior high girls volleyball team?
I guess my point is why take the risk? Are the Boy Scouts so short on qualified leaders that it needs to take in gays as leaders? After all, the Boy Scouts is all about the needs of the boys. It is not intended to be about the need of scout leaders, gay or straight.
But someone (like the author) can say that someone is a pedophile because he molested a child and therefore cannot be a homosexual. In effect they are hiding behind the label of pedophilia.
“Wouldn’t someone look with suspicion on a man who volunteers to be the towel boy for a junior high girls volleyball team?”
Ummm.....Scout leaders are never alone with a boy and surely not sharing a space like that. We enforce that rigidly.
Boy Scouting is eat up with lesbians. They are drawn to the outdoorsy butch thing with their sons. I used to run into them all the time at Scout camp. They keep their mouths shut about it.
There was talk about creating a gay-friendly version of Scouts but gay men don’t trust each other like that. They’d never let their son join because they know it would be a predator’s dream.