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The Boy Scouts of America are absolutely not tolerating anyone that they have reason to know would abuse boys or girls to be leaders. At least until recently, they have not tolerated gay scout leaders, but that is a difficult issue. A person who prefers adult partners of the same sex is not necessarily a risk of abusing children and in this era, refusing to allow a homosexual adult to be a leader would probably put them at risk of lawsuits based on discrimination based on sexual preference. I am not certain what their current policy regarding homosexuals as adult leaders, but I do know from personal experience as an adult leader, a former scout, and parent of two boys that have been scouts that their current youth protection policy is strict,
All this happened when the court ordered that homosexuals be admitted to the the Boy Scouts.
Look it up.
Before that the Boy Scouts held biblical principles and the gay community hated that idea.
Years ago I was in Boy Scouts as a youth in Cub Scouts and Explorer Scouts. My oldest son, who is now 41 years old was a Cub Scout and a Boy Scout. My youngest son, who is 16 has been a Cub Scout and a Boy Scout. I have been a Boy Scout volunteer leader. With all that, my experience has been of no personal knowledge of sexual abuse of me, my sons, and no one that I personally know has been, that I know of, a victim of or a perpetrator of sexual abuse. Since I have been a leader, I know that the Boy Scouts of America has a very strict Youth Protection policy and all adult leaders are required to go through Youth Protection Training No adult leader can be alone with a boy or girl. At all times, there must be either two youth or two adults present. Even emails must be copied to another person. Both adult leaders and the youth are trained in the youth protection rules and encouraged to report any violations. Of course, it is not possible to enforce the rules completely. I have no knowledge of whether the Boy Scouts of American in the past ever tolerated or covered up abuse., but I am certain that they are not tolerating it and have not been covering it up as long as I have been a volunteer leader, No organization that large can enforce its rules perfectly, but the Boy Scouts of American has been addressing the issue aggressively for the past several years.
Teddy J. Lapatka
Wed, Oct 20, 8:50 PM (12 hours ago)
to Thadeus
I always wondered why my life did not unfold the way I thought it would, the way it should have been. Most every important aspect in a man’s life that needs to be in place to succeed somehow seemed to escape me. I looked the part and tried my best to act the part of a successful man, but for whatever reason, I never believed in myself enough to develop any consistency in general.
I had a good upbringing, with a Mom and dad who did all the right things. Only now after years of therapy and having to be on an ungodly amount of medication, am I beginning to understand the impact of what was done to me by the defendants.
As a kid I didn’t have a clue what was happening to me. We all know about memory suppression, but I sure as hell didn’t know about it back then. But my brain found a way to do it for me. For those years, I went through chaotic periods of confusion over all kinds of things. Stuff that unmolested kids never know to wonder and worry about. Confusion regarding my sexual preferences and shame over perverted flashes drove me into depression. But I didn’t and couldn’t put 2 and 2 together. I was angry and acted out in ways that got me in trouble and kept me on the verge of going to jail. I didn’t know I was already in a prison at that point.
I thought my only hope was to work for Uncle Sam and enter into the armed forces. That didn’t keep the demons at bay either. Slowly I began to have flashes of gross sick memories that decided not to stay hidden any longer. It was the most disturbing time in all my life. There was no denying something very wrong, very foul, and very horrendous had happened to me and there was no undoing it, no making it better. I never thought about telling my parents because had I done that, there was no doubt in my mind, none whatsoever, that my dad and his brothers would have taken care of this crime in their own way and they would have had no care about what happened to them after words. That’s how it was where we came from, that would have been the end of the story. All it meant for me was another overwhelming secret I had to make sure was never revealed.
I have lived with the painful knowledge that this man, in all possibility, went on living his life the same as he did when I was his victim. Continuing to rape and sodomize young boys for his own sick pleasure, picking and choosing, slowly and deliberately grooming his chosen group of unsuspecting innocent children. He had no thought or care about the permanent irreparable damage he was doing to each victim. By the Boys and Girls Clubs of America! Clifton, New Jersey.
my hubby dead form lung cancer got the paper work form them ..the xwife told me he liked men ,i never new,,she lieing dunno married to him for 30 years she 16 ,,but he told me the leader raped him,could that make him like men,
And the Scouts’ response to a long history of sex abuse? Invite self-professing gay scoutmasters to join the party!
The Boy Scouts of America are absolutely not tolerating anyone that they have reason to know would abuse boys or girls to be leaders. At least until recently, they have not tolerated gay scout leaders, but that is a difficult issue. A person who prefers adult partners of the same sex is not necessarily a risk of abusing children and in this era, refusing to allow a homosexual adult to be a leader would probably put them at risk of lawsuits based on discrimination based on sexual preference. I am not certain what their current policy regarding homosexuals as adult leaders, but I do know from personal experience as an adult leader, a former scout, and parent of two boys that have been scouts that their current youth protection policy is strict,
All this happened when the court ordered that homosexuals be admitted to the the Boy Scouts.
Look it up.
Before that the Boy Scouts held biblical principles and the gay community hated that idea.
Years ago I was in Boy Scouts as a youth in Cub Scouts and Explorer Scouts. My oldest son, who is now 41 years old was a Cub Scout and a Boy Scout. My youngest son, who is 16 has been a Cub Scout and a Boy Scout. I have been a Boy Scout volunteer leader. With all that, my experience has been of no personal knowledge of sexual abuse of me, my sons, and no one that I personally know has been, that I know of, a victim of or a perpetrator of sexual abuse. Since I have been a leader, I know that the Boy Scouts of America has a very strict Youth Protection policy and all adult leaders are required to go through Youth Protection Training No adult leader can be alone with a boy or girl. At all times, there must be either two youth or two adults present. Even emails must be copied to another person. Both adult leaders and the youth are trained in the youth protection rules and encouraged to report any violations. Of course, it is not possible to enforce the rules completely. I have no knowledge of whether the Boy Scouts of American in the past ever tolerated or covered up abuse., but I am certain that they are not tolerating it and have not been covering it up as long as I have been a volunteer leader, No organization that large can enforce its rules perfectly, but the Boy Scouts of American has been addressing the issue aggressively for the past several years.
Teddy J. Lapatka
Wed, Oct 20, 8:50 PM (12 hours ago)
to Thadeus
I always wondered why my life did not unfold the way I thought it would, the way it should have been. Most every important aspect in a man’s life that needs to be in place to succeed somehow seemed to escape me. I looked the part and tried my best to act the part of a successful man, but for whatever reason, I never believed in myself enough to develop any consistency in general.
I had a good upbringing, with a Mom and dad who did all the right things. Only now after years of therapy and having to be on an ungodly amount of medication, am I beginning to understand the impact of what was done to me by the defendants.
As a kid I didn’t have a clue what was happening to me. We all know about memory suppression, but I sure as hell didn’t know about it back then. But my brain found a way to do it for me. For those years, I went through chaotic periods of confusion over all kinds of things. Stuff that unmolested kids never know to wonder and worry about. Confusion regarding my sexual preferences and shame over perverted flashes drove me into depression. But I didn’t and couldn’t put 2 and 2 together. I was angry and acted out in ways that got me in trouble and kept me on the verge of going to jail. I didn’t know I was already in a prison at that point.
I thought my only hope was to work for Uncle Sam and enter into the armed forces. That didn’t keep the demons at bay either. Slowly I began to have flashes of gross sick memories that decided not to stay hidden any longer. It was the most disturbing time in all my life. There was no denying something very wrong, very foul, and very horrendous had happened to me and there was no undoing it, no making it better. I never thought about telling my parents because had I done that, there was no doubt in my mind, none whatsoever, that my dad and his brothers would have taken care of this crime in their own way and they would have had no care about what happened to them after words. That’s how it was where we came from, that would have been the end of the story. All it meant for me was another overwhelming secret I had to make sure was never revealed.
I have lived with the painful knowledge that this man, in all possibility, went on living his life the same as he did when I was his victim. Continuing to rape and sodomize young boys for his own sick pleasure, picking and choosing, slowly and deliberately grooming his chosen group of unsuspecting innocent children. He had no thought or care about the permanent irreparable damage he was doing to each victim. By the Boys and Girls Clubs of America! Clifton, New Jersey.
my hubby dead form lung cancer got the paper work form them ..the xwife told me he liked men ,i never new,,she lieing dunno married to him for 30 years she 16 ,,but he told me the leader raped him,could that make him like men,