Reply #8: Here ya go! As usual, the most anti-gay people are the biggest hypocrites [View All]

[Ian David]

March 29, 2005

Boy Scout Official Charged with Child Porn
Douglas S. Smith was the Boy Scouts of America's director of programming. He was chairman of the Scout's Youth Protection League, responsible for alerting scout leaders to the dangers of predators on the Internet. Smith has defended the Scouts' bigoted policies against gays. He's also now been caught with child pornography on this computer.

CNN reports:

Douglas S. Smith Jr. faces a single count of receiving and distributing child pornography -- a charge resulting from a federal investigation conducted with German authorities. ... Smith is scheduled to appear before a federal judge Wednesday in Fort Worth, said Kathy Colvin, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office. "We anticipate Mr. Smith will enter a guilty plea at that time," she said.
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MSNBC reports:

In charges filed by federal prosecutors on March 21, Douglas S. Smith Jr. was accused of receiving images over the Internet in February of children engaging in oral sex, intercourse and other sexually explicit conduct. ... Smith is himself an Eagle Scout.
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Here is Douglas S. Smith defending the Boy Scouts' intolerant attitude towards gays:

Some intolerant elements in our society want to force scouting to abandon its values and to become fundamentally different. They want scouting to forego its constitutional rights, affirmed in 2000 by the Supreme Court in BSA v. Dale, and adopt fundamentally different values from the ones that helped shape the character of Mr. Collins and 106 million other young men over the past 94 years.
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I suspect Smith would have adopted the same attitude if asked about the Boy Scouts' intolerant and bigoted attitude towards atheists. Officials for the Boy Scouts of America insist that all of this is irrelevant to their policies on gays and atheists.

Superficially at least, that is true — but their defense of their bigoted policies is typically done on the grounds of morality and protecting children (especially where gays are concerned). Incidents like this demonstrate that keeping gays and atheists out of the Boy Scouts doesn't necessarily protect them as is presumed.

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