Gays, the Boy Scouts, and the Catholic Church

Gays, the Boy Scouts, and the Catholic Church

On March 17th, a civil trial began in Portland, Oregon in which a former Boy Scout is alleging that ”the Boy Scouts of America knew it had child molesters in its leadership for decades but kept the problem quiet.”

I’m not privy to the details of the action except as reported in The Oregonian but the reporter contends that there are hundreds of confidential Boy Scout files accumulated over the course of the organization’s century-old history that indicate the Scout’s hierarchy knew of and tolerated sexual predators for decades.

The report also contends that “dozens” of sex abuse claims have been filed against the Scouts over the years, which claims were all settled out of court so that the organization’s confidential files never became public.

Without impugning the motives or veracity of The Oregonian’s reporter, Aimee Green, it’s curious that none of those dozens of charges were ever investigated by authorities and no sexual predator was ever indicted.

Assistant Scoutmaster Timur Dykes . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1578)