Former Scout Exec Sentenced in Porn Case

[zbdent]

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001/20051206/0108455858.htm

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A former Boy Scouts executive was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison for collecting child pornography from the Internet.

Douglas S, Smith, Jr., 62, an executive in the Boy Scouts of America at the time he was charged, pleaded guilty in March to one count of possessing child porn.

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My (zbdent's) personal take on this:

Whew! Good thing that the Scouts were able to get rid of those gays from their organization so that the Scouts would have good, Christian leaders . . .

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Anybody know where he is from? We could find his campaign contributions

I have a hunch I know who he contributed to.

[benburch]

2. Want to bet he is a Republican?

:(

[zbdent]

3. Somehow, I don't think a Texas Scout executive would

have made it that far in today's "Christian, anti-gay" Scouts leadership roles if he was "liberal" and supported gay issues, or even just opened his mouth to contest the idea that the funding should be cut because they are discriminating against Gays and atheists . . .

[Ian David]

7. This guy was an outspoken anti-gay bigot if I remember correctly

I'll try to do the research before I have to leave.

[wakeme2008]

4. mMMM

In March, Smith acknowledged receiving and sending over the Internet more than 500 images of boys, some younger than age 12, posing nude or engaging in sex acts

[AX10]

5. Das Boy Scouts are a very backward organization.

Not suprised to hear about this though.

[heidler1]

6. When I was 12 our assistant scout master kept after me sexually.

The older scouts knew about it , but ignored it because he brought those little sexual comic books to camp outs that they could read. Personally I believe that many men with these type of sex desires are drawn to scouting much like they are drawn to the priesthood because of the ready supply of boys. The cloak of respectability also comes into play.

[Ian David]

8. Here ya go! As usual, the most anti-gay people are the biggest hypocrites

March 29, 2005

Boy Scout Official Charged with Child Porn
Douglas S. Smith was the Boy Scouts of America's director of programming. He was chairman of the Scout's Youth Protection League, responsible for alerting scout leaders to the dangers of predators on the Internet. Smith has defended the Scouts' bigoted policies against gays. He's also now been caught with child pornography on this computer.

CNN reports:

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. ... Smith is scheduled to appear before a federal judge Wednesday in Fort Worth, said Kathy Colvin, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office. "We anticipate Mr. Smith will enter a guilty plea at that time," she said.
http://atheism.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/29/scouts.charges/index.html


MSNBC reports:

In charges filed by federal prosecutors on March 21, Douglas S. Smith Jr. was accused of receiving images over the Internet in February of children engaging in oral sex, intercourse and other sexually explicit conduct. ... Smith is himself an Eagle Scout.
http://atheism.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7326932/


Here is Douglas S. Smith defending the Boy Scouts' intolerant attitude 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.
http://atheism.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://64.233.179.104/search%3Fq=cache:1NguQR9%2DM5YJ:www.bsalegal.org/brucecol%2D181.htm%2B%2522Douglas%2BS.%2BSmith%2522%2Bboy%2Bscouts%2Bgay


I suspect Smith would have adopted the same attitude if asked about the Boy Scouts' intolerant and bigoted attitude towards atheists. Officials for the Boy Scouts of America insist that all of this is irrelevant to their policies on gays and atheists.

Superficially at least, that is true — but their defense of their bigoted policies is typically done on the grounds of morality and protecting children (especially where gays are concerned). Incidents like this demonstrate that keeping gays and atheists out of the Boy Scouts doesn't necessarily protect them as is presumed.

More:
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/157524.htm

[underpants]

9. Let's all hope that he can redeem himself and now do the Lord's work

Maybe he could even become a priest.