By now, we are all sickeningly aware of the various sex abuse cases involving priests in the catholic church - here in the U.S., over in Ireland, and now in Germany. Apparently, there is another nice christian organization that has a history of having officials abuse little boys while their "superiors" cover up that sexual abuse.
BSA - Boy Scouts of America. That oh-so-holy organization that has booted out top ranking Eagle Scouts because they were gay or atheists, may have been covering up sex abuse for decades. My only involvement with scouts was as a Webelo, although I never really belonged - I did not submit the sign-up papers. Ironically, the one thing I remember from the handbook is that Webelo stands for "We'll Be Loyal Scouts". (Wikipedia has a nice tidbit about the Webelo Scout badge requiring the demonstration of "religiosity"...) I guess that loyalty only encompassed the BSA, not the boys...
I don't get it... I really don't. Boy Scouts are supposed to be trustworthy. Boy Scouts are supposed to be valiant. When I grew up the BSA PR machine made it seem that Boy Scouts were the crem-de-la-crem of fine young men. I do not doubt that most Boy Scouts, past and present, are darn fine people. So how can these men attend these meetings, claim to be doing everything they can to make these boys better people, then rape them. Worse yet, how can the leadership of the BSA then HIDE it, yet claim to be leading a good christian organization?
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