What is it with these people? One after another we find right-wing kooks turn out to be just what they've built lifetime reputations for bashing and hating. Ok now I'm sure that this is a minority, and I'm sure not all Christian fanatics, racists and gay-bashers are really closet homosexuals and pedophiles... I'm sure some are simply the fear and hate filled morons that they appear to be. Still, there does seem to be a trend doesn't there?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/us/07scoutmaster.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
"A scout leader who once sued the City of Berkeley for challenging a national Boy Scout ban on members who are gay or atheist has been arrested on felony charges that for at least five years he sexually abused young males in the troops he led.
"Evans, 64, a retired high school teacher and for 35 years leader of the Berkeley Sea Scouts, was arrested at his home in nearby Kensington on Tuesday after investigators identified four youths, ages 13 to 17, who said they had been sexually abused by him."
While previously...
"Mr. Evans sued the city in his role as a leader of the Sea Scouts, an affiliate program of the Boy Scouts. The city, after providing free berthing for a Sea Scouts boat for 60 years, said in 1998 that a Boy Scout policy barring gay scouts and atheists violated Berkeley's rules against discrimination. The city said the Scouts would have to leave the berth or pay $500 a month rent.
"Mr. Evans sued for discrimination and for violating the Scouts' First Amendment rights. The California Supreme Court ruled in favor of Berkeley."
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