Golly, what a surprise.
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http://rawstoryq.com/news/2005/index.php?p=45
3/29/2005
Boy Scout leader charged with child porn was defender of anti-gay
policy, ‘Youth Protector’
Scout leader charged with child porn ‘once Youth Protection chairman’
By Michael Rogers | RAWSTORYQ Editor
Boy Scouts of America’s National Director of Programs Douglas Smith
will appear in a Dallas courtroom tomorrow to face charges of
posessing child pornography, according to reports by NBC News.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7326932/
At one point, Smith served as Chairman of the Scout’s Youth Protection
Task Force, according to a website operated by the Western Alaska
Council of the Boy Scouts of America, RAWSTORYQ has discovered.
http://www.bsawac.org/Training/Youth%20Protection%20On%20Line.htm
In addition, Smith was one of 42 recipients of a Distinguished Service
Award, presented to "Arrowmen who have rendered distinguished and
outstanding service to the Order on a sectional, area, regional, or
national basis. It is given primarily for dedicated service to the
Order and Scouting over a period of years."
The Boy Scouts have fueled controversy by keeping gays from its
membership and leadership ranks.
In a bio published along with his award description, Smith was
described as a resident of Texas who had achieved the rank of Eagle
Scout, scouting’s highest honor. Smith was also recognized for "his
visionary support [which] has allowed our Order to move to new level."
Smith defended policy of discrimination against gays
In 2004, C-Span general counsel and Eagle Scout Bruce D. Collins wrote
about the Boy Scouts, explaining what he felt were a number of
contradictions in BSA policies.
Mr. Collins’, whose column appears regularly in Legal Times, was
unaware that his column, a copywritten work, was taken and reposted on
the legal affairs website of the Boy Scouts.
"As contentious and even as violent as the 1960s were, I had always
seen my Boy Scout life as a refuge from the political and culture
wars," Collins wrote.
"My well-thumbed Boy Scout Handbook (which I still have) was chock
full of good stuff about both camping and life skills. It counseled
morality, clean living and obedience. Its themes were tolerance and
inclusiveness."
The Boy Scout’s reply, drafted by the same official appearing in court
on the child pornography charges, said, "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."
A call to Mr. Smith’s Dallas area home to inquire about exactly what
he meant, or whether the charges were true, went unanswered.
The accused child porn distributor concludes the letter by offering a
scathing attack of the American Civil Liberties Union, "Mr. Collins
would do well to communicate his displeasure to those directing their
discriminatory assault against his beloved Boy Scouts -- the ACLU."
Smith is due in court tomorrow morning.
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