Mormon Church And Boy Scouts Sued In Massive Molestation Cover Up

[Emit]

My Mormon neighbor keeps inviting my son to come join the scouts with her son at their church. I think we'll pass on that offer...

The LDS Church and national Boy Scouts organization have been sued by a man claiming that both covered up evidence of his molestation. The case has uncovered extensive files kept by both groups cloaking sexual predators.

The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years. The "perversion files," a nickname the Boy Scouts are said to have used for the documents, have rarely been seen by the public, but that could all change in the coming weeks in an Oregon courtroom. The lawyer for a man who was molested in the 1980s by a Scout leader has obtained about 1,000 Boy Scouts sex files and is expected to release some of them at a trial that began Wednesday. The lawyer says the files show how the Boy Scouts have covered up abuse for decades.

Membership in the Boy Scouts is strongly encouraged by the LDS Church and they are accused of having collaborated in the cover-up.

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http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/03/mormon-church-and-boy-scouts-sued-in.html

[rcrush]

1. I'd like to be surprised at something like this

But I'm not.

[Swamp Rat]

2. A clue as to why Glenn Beck is so fucked up?

:shrug:

[Mojeoux]

3. My Best Laugh Tonight

I am very new to DU.  I am very very glad to find it.   This
reply post is my favorite.

God knows the subject is heinous, but then jeeze, so is Beck.

By the way......what's a "freeper"?

[Swamp Rat]

7. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

To answer your question: :D

[Mojeoux]

15. Thanks Swamp Rat

I know some Freeptards.  They say we had to invade Viet-Nam
because they bombed Pearl Harbor.

[Swamp Rat]

17. LOL!

They say the darndest things sometimes... but so do I. :D

[malaise]

20. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahahaha

:fistbump:

[Emit]

25. Welcome to DU, Mojeoux

:hi:

Freeper, according to the Urban Dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FReeper

1. Freeper 1289 up, 441 down

So-called, because it is the nickname of the denizens of the ultra-right wing Web site FreeRepublic.com. Similar to "ditto-head."

Also spelled FReeper
Bill thinks that anyone who opposes President Bush should be thrown in jail. He's a total Freeper.

It goes on and on from there.

[Emit]

5. LOL, one of your bests!

For sure. You nailed it!

[BlueIris]

4. www.exmormon.org

Is one of the best websites of all time.

[upi402]

8. Thanks, I saw it before

and couldn't remember it. Hope this doesn't get buried by missing white chicks and sports stars gone bad.

[Emit]

24. Thanks, I'll check it out.

[Ken Burch]

6. Any time you get "Mormon Church", "Boy Scouts" and "Molestation Cover-up" in the same headline,

it's a beautiful thing

:sarcasm:

[4lbs]

10. The sad thing is that the Boy Scouts were once a noble institution.

I was a Boy Scout for about 6 months, but never really got into the outdoors camping thing.

I did earn a Radio merit badge when I converted a small radio to be able to run off some solar panels, to help preserve battery usage. That one thing might have also qualified for a few others as well, but I was more satisfied with the solar powered radio anyway than the merit badges.

:D

[Ken Burch]

12. Well, there was always a mixed thing about the Scouts

The idea of scouting was pushed originally by people like Teddy Roosevelt because he felt it would get young people used to uniforms and military discipline from an early age. Baden-Powell was down with this, and overruled the objections of Ernest Thompson Seton, who wanted a non-militaristic scouting experience.

[PBass]

11. I appreciate your passion, but this seems tragic and not something to gloat over.

My comment is directed to Ken Burch

[Ken Burch]

13. I know it's tragic for the kids.

My comment was directed at the pomposity and self-righteousness of the organizations involved.

[Q3JR4]

9. Ooooops....

Q3JR4
:popcorn:

[Blix Krieg]

14. Oh not me Kiddies.

I was a Scout Master in Salt Lake

[RainDog]

16. wow.

all of these reports of child molestation among authoritarian/intolerant groups lately.

it's good these things are seeing the light of day.

[dynasaw]

18. Evangelical Roots of Boys Scouts

The Boys Scouts movement was begun by Lord Baden Powell with the goal of fostering "muscular Christianity"--preparing
young men to become the leaders of England's flung empire. Religion, totalitarianism and imperialism . . .what do you know!

[RainDog]

19. didn't know that

just knew that boy scouts, as it exists today, gives me the creeps.

[conscious evolution]

22. When I was a scout

we were taught Powell started scouting because he was appaled at the lack of ability to survive off of the land by british soldiers during the Boer war.

[xchrom]

21. Recommend

[SpiralHawk]

23. "Cover ups are cool. Smirk." - Pope Ratzinger (R)