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I don’t think I’ve seen this obser­va­tion any­where else: “…if it defies good sense to send teenaged girls off into the woods with het­ero­sex­u­al men, it like­ly defies good sense to send teenaged boys off with homo­sex­u­al men. This is no asper­sion against homo­sex­u­als, except inso­far as they are men, and we know enough about men to under­stand that some of them find teenagers sex­u­al­ly attrac­tive, and the old­er and more mature-look­ing these teenagers, the eas­i­er it becomes for seem­ing­ly decent men to vio­late them while pre­tend­ing the act is con­sen­su­al.”

Sand in the Gears » Blog Archive » Gays, Boy Scouts, and dog­ma

Slip­pery words • Home •. Gays, Boy Scouts, and dog­ma. Feb­ru­ary 4th, 2013 Post­ed in Pol­i­cy and Pol­i­tics. The Boy Scouts of Amer­i­ca is con­sid­er­ing an end to its pro­hi­bi­tion against homo­sex­u­al troop lead…