[yendu bwam]

The same people who complain about the Catholic Church and its priest sex scandals....also complain about the Boy Scouts method for preventing the same thing from happening to them. Having been a youth and an adult member of the Boy Scouts for 15 years (and an Eagle Scout), I know that this is one of the minor rules (and there are a ton of rules that deal with everything under the sun) in place to protect the Scouts and to prevent abuse lawsuits against the Boy Scouts of America.

You're part right, BBS. I'm a Catholic and have been involved with the Boy Scouts through my two sons' involvement for a number of years. I am completely and totally disgusted by what my Church has allowed to occur. My sons are far safer in Boy Scouts than with a Catholic priest. The three measures Boy Scouts takes - prohibiting known homosexual scoutmasters, trying to keep more than one adult with kids at all times, and encouraging boys to watch films about homosexual abuse, would greatly benefit my Church as well (but my Church is so far too cowardly to impose such). But it is not solely the lawsuits that Boy Scouts worries about - it is the kids themselves. Boy Scouts puts kids first (and bravely and patiently takes the massive intolerant abuse from homosexuals); the Catholic Church puts the welfare of kids last.

[BaBaStooey]

agreed.