The Boy Scouts of America has made the
decision to allow openly gay scouts. Since the beginning scouts have
had sexually active gay boys in the organization. Allowing the boys who
are openly gay to join the scouts is the correct thing. I think It would be better to know which boys were gay so that on outings they aren't allowed to share tents and cabins. This would be essentially the same as separating sleeping arrangements by gender.
The people running the scouts still
will not allow gay leaders. For some reason too many people believe
gay adults are pedophiles, while statistics show otherwise. The
anti-gay people point to a 1988 study (Erickson et al.
(1988). Behavior patterns of child molesters.
Archives of Sexual Behavior, 17, 77-86 ) that says 86% of
the men found molesting boys were gay or bisexual. I dare to argue
that a straight male won't molest young boys, but they will molest
young girls. We can apply the same statistic that 86% of the
molesters of young girls are male. All stats bare out the fact the
majority of child molestation comes from males. If we apply the
logic 86% of child molestation comes from men, then maybe the scouts
should allow only female scoutmasters.
