Posted by
Craig Freeborn on Friday, October 06, 2006 2:37:51 AM
I’m shocked – SHOCKED – by the Liberal hypocrisy exposed by the on-going scandal involving Rep. Mark Foley and a (supposed) 16 year old Congressional Page.
Liberals are demanding the resignation of House Speaker Dennis Hastert for allegedly ignoring the “warning signs” of a known homosexual man with an inordinate interest in boys and young men – allowing him to have further contact with, and supervision of, boys and young men for whom the Speaker was responsible.
These unsuspecting boys and young men – along with their parents – expect the Congressional Page program to be a safe, wholesome, learning experience that is supervised by ethical adults.
But it is these same Liberals who, for years, have been vilifying the Boy Scouts of America for barring homosexual men with an inordinate interest in boys and young men from serving as Scoutmasters, camping together, and coming into close contact with boys and young men for whom the Scouts are responsible.
Boys and young men – along with their parents – expect the Boy Scout program to be a safe, wholesome, learning experience that is supervised by ethical adults.
Just hours ago, Hastert held a news conference wherein he “assure[d] the boys and their parents that the Congressional Page program is safe”. He said that these boys and young men “must be protected. We will do everything we can to protect them.”
The Boy Scouts of America have gone to great lengths to assure the boys and their parents that the Boy Scout program is safe. Their policy is that these boys and young men must be protected. They are doing everything they can to protect them.
They require the certification of all Scoutmasters by periodical participation in “Youth Protection” training. A minimum of two adults are required on all Boy Scout activities – and their names must be submitted on the “Tour Permit” describing the activity in detail. Also required on this permit is the name of the adult who is certified in “Youth Protection”. Adult leaders are never allowed to be with a single boy in a closed room. “Scoutmaster Conferences” must be conducted with the door open and another adult just outside the open door within sight and hearing distance.
In addition, for the protection of these boys and young men, the Boy Scouts do not permit homosexuals to be scoutmasters. Unlike those responsible for the Congressional Page program, the Boy Scouts of America have taken the common-sense precaution that a known homosexual man with an inordinate interest in boys and young men might just pose a threat to those boys and young men! (Two hours a week, plus one weekend a month, plus one week a year, plus monthly adult training, plus Boards of Review, Courts of Honor, and planning meetings is an inordinate commitment of time for any man who does not have his own child in the program.)
The Boy Scout program includes boys and young men between the ages of eleven and eighteen. Liberals who have led the charge against the Boy Scouts may not want to hear it, but men who molest boys and young men of this age aren’t pedophiles – they are homosexuals. Pedophiles are attracted to young pre-pubescent boys. (Puberty generally starts abound age nine.) While not all homosexuals molest boys and young men between the ages of eleven and eighteen, all men who do molest them are – by definition – homosexuals.
As such, the Boy Scouts of America have every right – indeed, they have the duty – to exclude homosexual men from positions of leadership in their organization. As a Freeborn American, I would expect no less. Yet this is exactly what Liberals are accusing the Congressional Page program of NOT doing. It appears that – at least for the Boy Scouts of America – no Good Deed goes unpunished!