Kid,

In some areas you are quite educated, others...oh boy....

A pedophile is not a homosexual. A pedophile is a physcological disorder in which an individual has a strong sexual attraction to pre-pubescent children.

Let's put it this way. If a man molested a young girl would the logic be that the man was simply acting on his hetrosexuality? Of course not.

Many pedophiles abuse both boys and girls. Why? Because pedophilia is a psychological disorder and not simply a sexual prefernece.

Your anti-gay stance is based on bigotry and ignorance.

Please know that many of us read your post and make the exact same connection as we would if you had made a racist, anti-semitist, etc. comment. If you want to be taken seriously when you comment here, it would be best to always maintain a position as though you are an educated person. It will give a lot more weight to your other viewponits.

Kid it looks like you and I won't be
getting our "WEBELOS" badge anytime soon. LOL

Applepie, now that I have returned from church where I was sitting next to my wife, I can expand on your last comments. My inner voice of truth tells me that I am still right. There are pedophiles all over this country. Going with your argument tells me that the Boy Scouts need to exlude married ment that are Christians to reduce the odds of sexual abuse/contact. And, that I am a higher risk to molest kids than the homosexual male that trolls parks and interstate weigh stations for anonymous sex with as many partners as possible just because I happen to go to church and am married. I just do not buy that.

Now, if you are talking about the Catholic church and their recent problems, that is a different issue. Years ago, the Catholic church of the United States made a decision to allow homosexuals to be priests. Since that decision, the Catholic church has paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits because of the sexual abuse problems(and rightfully so). So, you do have a point about churches. It is a shame.

The Catholic church did not have a pedophile problem. They had a homosexual problem. If you look at the victims, they were mostly teenage males. There were some young boys, a few young girls, a few teenage girls, but mostly teenage boys that were groomed by homosexual priests. Keep in mind that the age of consent in most States is 16 and younger in other countries.

So, I agree, there are married men sitting in churches next to their wife that are child molesters (and hypocrites). However, i don't think it is even close the predominant class of people that commit the crime of child sexual abuse. I could tell you a whole boatload of stories that are related to my occupation that forms my opinion about life and other things.

One thing about my occupation-it has developed an undersanding that this Country is made up of an incredibly diverse group of people that gives me and my fellow workmates some great jokes. And, the reason that this country is so great is the Constitution and the freedoms it guarantees.

Thank God and the founding fathers for the 1st and 2nd Amendment.

Applepie, I look forward to your reply, and the reply of others.

Apple,

Stop wasting your time on jonkid. I like that name better(it's rightfully deserving!!!)

Kid - how about if my gay brother brings his son into scouts? Can he be a chaperone? Just wondering.

Listen up folks. I am outraged at all of this petty sniping, political correctness, religious persecution, etc., which diverts the attention away from being ticked off at this prime example of human debris, this child molester.

THE POINT IS folks, we have a pedophile who was let to run amok in a local Boy Scout troop. How anyone posting here, wants to sugarcoat, be sidetracked or attack another poster DOES NOTHING to change, that a pedophile that molested innocent children.

This person was not reported through proper channels using the safeguards put in place by the Boy Scouts. There was a significant failure of the parents that had suspicions and/or questions when this pedophile was alone with individual boys for large amounts of time.

The offender went against protocol that TWO adults must be with the kids at all times. No parent or other adult leaders reported any of the observed deviations from this policy, which the parents were supposed to given copies of. Failure in policy distribution, use common sense, report your suspicions.
Boy Scout guidelines link:(http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/HealthandSafety/GSS/gss01.aspx)
More information on the offender link: (www.StarTribune.com).

Get outraged at the offender and the parents that did not report their suspicions or report clear violations of the Boy Scout Health and Safety policy. Remember the innocent victims.

Here is a link from a 2008 Psychology Today article that defines pedophilia and homosexual/heterosexuality. In short, a pedophile does not care about the gender of the child; a pedophile has sexual desire for a child. The average person does not know the difference of these definitions.
(http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/gays-anatomy/200809/homosexuality-an...).

Justmeagain - you are so so right and thank you for bring the argument back to where it should be.

I still have gay minister friend with a son that didn't join the Boy Scouts....sorry - like a dog with a bone, Kidjon really blew me away with some of his statements.