similar to the need to expose pedophiles in the priesthood, this information will just fuel those that believe the Boy Scouts are right in refusing to allow homosexual scouts and leaders.

It gets back to the same argument....all homosexuals are pedophiles. All homosexuals want to convert your sons. I could go on and on.

We know, of course, that is not the case but those that want to deny the LGBT equal treatment under the law always throw this up.

A peditrician was found to have molested over 100 of his child patients and only one of them was a boy.

It has nothing to do with homosexuality and there are just as many girls molested as their are boys.

There was a very creepy guy who was asst scoutmaster in my high school boyfriend's troop, before 1965. The boys were wary, especially after a "misunderstanding" in a tent one night in which he was bodily tossed out.

I remember his last name -- wonder if he ever made it into those files?

Guess like the Catholics, other religions have their shameful behavior and abuse.

...related to the Scouting org. bigotry against homosexuals.

The stats cited showed that Mormans were a low single-digit percentage of Scouts.

But, like the Catholic church indeed, they should have done the right thing instead of the Right thing.

It was a very horrible experience for him, and the scout leader threatened him not to tell. My brother's anger issues likely stem from that experience.

to the editor of the local newspaper:

Boland: Don't bring Broun down
updated Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 8:23pm Athens-Banner Herald

I don’t mean to belittle those who’ve written letters recently to the Banner-Herald criticizing Rep. Paul Broun, but I’ll try to offer some insight as to why his constituents keep electing him to represent northeast Georgia in Congress.

As background, I’m nearing 89 years old. I lived through the Depression, served in a combat infantry unit during World War II, and have served my country in either the active Army or the Army Reserve for more than 30 years. I owned and operated a business in Athens for 40 years. I have bachelor’s degrees in entomology and chemistry from the University of Georgia and am a board-certified entomologist/mycologist.

I’ve known Broun, a native Athenian, since he was a boy. Broun’s father, who served as a state senator, was a friend of mine.

Paul Broun is a fine Christian man who lives his faith daily. His recent comments at an area church that evolution and other areas of science are “lies straight from the pit of hell,” just told of his Christian beliefs — the same beliefs held by other born-again Christians.

My guess is that the people who have written critically of Broun are part of the liberal generation of today, who have had everything handed to them from birth and are either in college or have just finished their study under very liberal college professors who themselves have never been anything but students and are now college professors.

Paul Broun is a medical doctor who, before being elected to Congress, made house calls to patients who often were poor and could not pay him. Broun is a Marine, and currently serves in the Marine Reserve.

Broun believes, as do his constituents, that the least government is the best government. Those of us who keep voting for him want to control the federal government rather than have it control us.

I want those who are critical of Broun to know I fought in combat for their right to think as they want. But, I don’t believe they have the right to criticize such a fine man just because he doesn’t think as they do. They have the right to vote against him, but trying to bring him down by criticizing him in the newspaper should be a “no-no.”

Ernest P. Boland


Congressman Paul Broun (R-Ga.) said last week that evolution and the big bang theory are "lies straight from the pit of Hell.