aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Closet cases are dangerous II

From Oliver Willis (with grateful thanks):

September, 2004, Douglas S. Smith, Jr defends the boy scouts against charges of intolerance towards gays:

Some intolerant elements in our society want to force scouting to abandon its values and to become fundamentally different. They want scouting to forego its constitutional rights, affirmed in 2000 by the Supreme Court in BSA v. Dale, and adopt fundamentally different values from the ones that helped shape the character of Mr. Collins and 106 million other young men over the past 94 years.

Today:

A former top official of the Boy Scouts of America faces federal Internet child pornography charges and is expected to plead guilty Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office said.

Douglas S. Smith Jr. faces a single count of receiving and distributing child pornography—a charge resulting from a federal investigation conducted with German authorities.

Now let me be clear, nothing I’ve seen says the kiddie porn he was “receiving and distributing” was gay themed and I hope it was not. But I promise you that no out proud gay “top official of the Boy Scouts of America” would be involved in this kind of crap!