The Boy Scouts Lift Ban...

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by matteos

I very much disagree.. I was in both the cubs and the scouts... My friends Dad who was also my Primary school teacher became scout master... He didn't particularly want to do it, but the old one quit and there was no one else (My buddy was in school with me from Primary to High school and was also in the Scouts).

And he was good at it, everybody had fun and learnt things etc..

Saw my buddy last year after a ten year gap (He was visiting LA).. He told me his Dad came out as gay and was now shacked up with a dude... I don't think my buddy had taken this particularly well.. It was a very big shock to him and to me frankly.. The way he had conducted himself as a teacher and as a scout master was BEYOND reproach... My buddy said people had started to gossip about his Dad and insinuate he was a kiddy fiddler etc (This only occurred AFTER he came out.. Some 15 years later).. That sickens me. This man was absolutely no such thing, but because he came out as gay when he was older and society was more accepting he gets tarred with that brush even though he gave up his time to teach kids without being paid.

Which supports Pio's observation that the sexual orientation of a scoutmaster shouldn't - and overwhelmingly doesn't - make any difference at all.