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Damned if they do and damned if they don't. From the Connecticut Law Trubune, December 14, 2014.

A jury in Waterbury has awarded $7 million to a former Connecticut Boy Scout who claims he was sexually abused by his troop leader and an older scout in the mid-1970s. The jury found the Boy Scouts of America liable for compensatory damages as well as for punitive damages for recklessness; the punitive damages will be determined at a later time by the judge.

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There have been dozens of similar lawsuits filed against the Boy Scouts of America across the country. But Slager said few of them have been tried before a jury. Slager believes this is the largest compensatory damages verdict against the Boy Scouts of America and the first case to go to a jury verdict in the Northeast.

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1 posted on 05/23/2015 1:27:04 PM PDT by NYer
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Homosexuals represent about 3% of the population; they commit about thirty percent of child sex abuse. ...... ..... Thirty-eight percent of children identifying as gay were victims of sex abuse. Homosexuals aren't born; they're made.

And nearly 100 percent of the pedophile priests preyed on boys instead of girls.

35 posted on 05/23/2015 4:09:29 PM PDT by chopperman
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Natural laws learned over thousands of years were mocked, ridiculed, overturned, and even outlawed. Toward the end, homosexual drill sergeants prowled the barracks grooming receptive teenage recruits. Hey, we were told, it’s their business, and who are you to judge them? Later, they could get married in the post-interfaith worship center by a military spiritual advisor (“chapels” and “chaplains” having been purged from the lexicon for favoring the Christian faiths) and then move on to adopting children.

And finally, the last old-guard bunker to fall: the Boy Scouts, completing the cycle of government-approved sodomite corruption. For a century the Scouts were morally straight? According to whose definition of straight? So why shouldn’t adult homosexual Scout leaders share tents with teenagers in our brave new world? Don’t be a homophobe, we were told. Each child can make his or her own free choice about their gender identity, but now with helpful adult mentors to guide them along the formerly forbidden paths.

If it feels good, do it. Or have it done to you. Or even do it unto the little children. Tommy wants to become Tomasina before heading to kindergarten? Her brave new mommy agrees? A government-provided surgeon will perform the “gender reassignment” operation. And if kindergarten isn’t soon enough to put the kids on the unrepressed road to gender identification, then start them on Heather Has Two Mommies and Prince and Prince cartoon books in the government-subsidized day care centers.

Smiling experts assured us that we were merely throwing off the shackles of our repressed sexualities. Dissent is hate, and hate is not tolerated around here, mister, so shut up and get with the program. Well, I couldn’t get with the program, so I quit my public high school job. As a world history teacher, moving from a public school to a Christian academy (at less pay and fewer benefits) gave me a couple more years of insulation from the social wreckage cascading down.

I kept looking up for the big asteroid, but we didn’t need God to smite us from outer space. In the end, we smote ourselves with our hubris, believing that we were replacing God’s wisdom with our own. The proud decadence and in-your-face cultural perversions didn’t cause the Rupture, but they were surely flashing red signs warning that the end was near.

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36 posted on 05/23/2015 4:21:40 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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“more” is never enough!

>http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2014/07/diversity-destruction.html<

...Diversity is an anti-religion, and anti-ideology, a nepotism which promotes everything except one’s own family.

Diversity therefore equals the destruction of any and all religions and of all positive ideologies.

Because Diversity can only be destructive: whatever IS is insufficiently or inexactly diverse.
Whatever IS must therefore be destroyed in order to make it MORE Diverse.
And there is no conceivable or measurable end to it. Yesterday’s Diversity is today’s intolerable lack of Diversity.

Diversity is the destruction of Good; and it is the destruction of all types of Good - however defined. All are chewed up and spat out by Diversity.

Diversity is the promotion of chaos by the destruction of Good; and then there-naming of chaos as Good.


38 posted on 05/23/2015 4:29:55 PM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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Besides child molesters, the scouts also have a single mom problem at least in my experience.

My son wanted to join a couple years ago because he naively thought the scouts did a lot of camping.

It turns out my son's troop was headed up by a lady and most of the parents were single moms. Needless to say, the majority of the scouting activities seemed to revolve around arts and crafts type things.

I think most of the single moms signed their sons up for the scouts because they wanted some sort of manly influence in their family. Not just for their sons but in their life too. The problem is that they turned the whole experience into something so lacking in testosterone that I could not stand to in the room with them more than five minutes. Tip for single ladies, if you want more stable men in your life, you should eat better, exercise, get more sleep, dress better and try projecting a cheerful attitude.

In any case, they only had one camping trip the entire year. It was actually sponsored by the council not our troop. I was the only one from our troop to show up so my son and I had to hang with another troop that was headed up by a guy that I knew.

We quit scouting the next week. This was around the time that they let gay scouts join. They all thought I quit because of the gay scout thing and tried to talk us into rejoining. Apparently, they lost a lot of families around that time but I bet the single moms are still there. My guess is the chance of a child getting molested skyrockets if one is raised by a single mom.

My other peeve with the scouts is the constant begging for money. How much money does it take to run a scout troop? The church donated the space and we had to pay extra for the uniform, books and everything. The local and national council appeared to act more like a multilevel marketing scheme than an organization for young men. They only showed up to talk about money, money, money. Apparently, like a two dollar trollop , they will do practically anything for money.
40 posted on 05/23/2015 4:55:52 PM PDT by wizkid
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So, what does Morally Straight mean for the BSA? and I bet that many scout leaders are pro-abortion too.

I know that many scout troops chartered to Catholic parishes do NOT take their Boy Scouts to mass when they are camping over the weekend.

I wonder why their pastors don’t mandate mass attendance on camping trips and why the pastors don’t offer mass when the Scouts return.


42 posted on 05/23/2015 5:27:42 PM PDT by Coleus (For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.)
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They accomplished exactly what they set out to do .... kill the scouts as a viable organization. What’s left will be a cruel joke and pervert rat hole.


43 posted on 05/23/2015 6:31:23 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (75% of gov't classified info is just a cover for corruption, malfeasance, illegal acts, stupidity.)
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Remember when the Boy Scouts said changing their policy wouldn't involve gay scout leaders?

Yes. I also remember gays saying that all they wanted was to be left alone.

We expect anyone connected with this agenda to tell the truth???????

44 posted on 05/23/2015 6:51:47 PM PDT by massmike (US has tightened sanctions on Christian business owners and relaxed sanctions on Iran getting a nuke)
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