Scott Walker: The Boy Scouts' Ban On Gay Troop Leaders ‘Protected Children’

[DonViejo]

Presidential candidate and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said on Tuesday that the longstanding ban on gay troop leaders by the Boy Scouts of America had “protected children.”

The Boy Scouts decided on Monday to end that ban, and Walker, an Eagle Scout, responded with a statement to the Independent Journal Review.

From Walker's statement:

I have had a lifelong commitment to the Scouts and support the previous membership policy because it protected children and advanced Scout values

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Walker has referred to his service as an Eagle Scout in campaign speeches. In March, he even suggested to an audience at the Chamber of Commerce in Phoenix that this experience had prepared him to be commander-in-chief. Walker’s wife, Tonette, also served as a den mother for the organization.

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[Angry Dragon]

1. Walker scares me

[riversedge]

3. I get the impression that Walker thinks gays

will start bouncing on the kids now. Walker is sick.

[Angry Dragon]

5. You need to read what he put into his newest budget

he really tried to rape Wisconsin this time

[olddots]

2. bring it on Scotty.

the more he talks the weaker the repukian party gets .

[ibegurpard]

4. the Boy Scouts organization made this change

Is he trying to say govt should be able to dictate policy for private groups?

[LanternWaste]

6. BSA never had a stellar track record on protecting children from abuse...

BSA never had a stellar track record on protecting children from abuse...

"2,000 reported cases of abuse within the Boy Scouts of America prior to 1994; historical “confidential files” (formerly known as the “Ineligible Volunteer Files”) within Scout records, with details on 231 Scout leaders banned from Scouting for sexual misconduct from 1975 through 1984. 50 lawsuits against the Scouts by families of molested boys from around the US. A list from the BSA of more than 350 men banned for sexual misconduct from 1971 to 1986. The newspaper discovered that 1,151 Scouts reported being abused by their leaders during the studied 19-year period..."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_sex_abuse_cases

(And I post that as a proud, former member of both the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts.)

[Gothmog]

7. This claim is pure BS based on the lies that homosexuals molest children

Walker is a college drop out who who too stupid to understand what is going on here

[yuiyoshida]

8. Not the sharpest tool in the

GOP Shed.