Gays, Catholics and the Trials of the Boy Scouts
By Richard Davis (10/26/05)
On the same day the Vatican announced it would impose restrictions on gays entering the priesthood, I received a mailing from the Boy Scouts of America requesting a donation. If you’re a liberal, you’re no doubt bewildered as to why I would connect those two items in the same sentence. If you’re the parent of a Boy Scout, or the treasurer at the Vatican, you don’t need help connecting the dots.
In a sane world a scandal involving the sexual abuse of thousands of children by homosexual priests would have raised some second thoughts about the relentless campaign by the left and the gay lobby to sexualize all aspects of American life, particularly childhood. Unfortunately we live in a PC world, and our media both support the gay lobby and are intimidated by it. They’ve deliberately misreported the true nature of the scandal since its inception.
According to the press the abuse has had nothing to do with homosexuality. Most stories don’t even mention the homosexuality of the priests. It was pedophilia, and that afflicts all sexual orientations equally (or so they say). Suggesting otherwise is proof of homophobia. That is the official line -- or in this case, the official lie.
While there were incidents of pedophilia (the attraction to prepubescent children), most abuse occurred between gay priests and post-pubescent boys. That is common knowledge now, though the media ignore it. The victims were mostly boys the same age as Boy Scouts.
Professionals and academics who study the matter tell us that gays are no more prone to sexual abuse of children than are heterosexuals. That may be true, but since it is literally inconceivable that these specialists could or would say anything to the contrary, their word has no credibility. In a PC world, you find what you’re looking for and say what you’re permitted to say, or you shut up.
The media’s word certainly can’t be trusted. Time magazine this month ran a lengthy pro-gay cover piece on homosexual youth, “The Battle Over Gay Teens.” As the blogosphere would discover after the fact -- something Time never disclosed -- the story was written by a gay activist reporter who once published a guide to gay bath houses in Washington, DC (and also authored stories attacking the Boy Scouts). But rest assured there was no media bias.
The Vatican also toes the PC line, hypocrisy being no stranger to the church. For the record, the Pope’s planned restrictions on homosexuals in the priesthood have no connection to the sex scandal. No, he’s banning gays because -- well, just because. Don’t ask, don’t tell. (And especially don’t ask why homosexuals make up perhaps half the priesthood, given the church’s teaching on homosexuality, and whether that has had anything to do with the decline of the church in the West. Surely not.)
Despite all the PC, the scandal raised at least one disturbing question: If you can’t trust a gay priest with your children, why would you trust a gay scoutmaster, or for that matter any male homosexual in a position of intimate authority over your child?
The short answer is that the left demands that you do, and that’s that. Sure there will be victims, but that’s a small price to pay to achieve complete multicultural equality. If adult homosexuals want to go camping with your boys, they should have the same right to do that as does anyone else.
And so while the Catholic Church gets sued because it entrusted young boys to homosexual males, the Boy Scouts get sued because they won’t. Both organizations have taken a beating in the media -- the church deservedly so -- but only the Boys Scouts are being publicly ostracized. Their funding sources are being targeted, young Scouts are routinely subjected to verbal abuse from picketers, and they are hounded like criminals from public facilities for being both politically incorrect and morally unfit in the eyes of the left.
That alone earns them a donation in my book.
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