Gay Men, Pedophilia, and the Boy Scouts

It is hard to believe, but The Boy Scouts of America just got more offensive.

Somewhere on the path to a solution to resolving inequality, the Boy Scouts of America got completely lost.  They are proposing to partially lift its long-standing exclusion of gays – allowing them as youth members but continuing to bar them as adult leaders.  The proposal, unveiled Friday after weeks of private leadership deliberations, will be submitted to the roughly 1,400 voting members of the BSA's National Council during the week of May 20 at a meeting in Texas.
The key part of the resolution says no youth may be denied membership in the Scouts "on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone." A ban would continue on leadership roles for adults who are openly gay or lesbian.

This makes even less sense than the current ban.  What is the reason for this?  If they are under the wholly unproven and unscientific illusion that gay men are pedophiles, when do they think that starts?  Not until they are adults?  Why would gay teens and children be okay, but not the people they will inevitably turn into after they turn 18?  It is insulting and ignorant.

There is not a shred of evidence that being gay increases your interest in having sex with children.  Reviews of the psychological literature agree that the sexual attraction of pedophiles is based on age, not gender.  Men who have sex with boys are either unable to sustain an adult sexual relationship with anyone or they are in a heterosexual relationship.  I suspect that close inspection of the 'perversion files' would reveal exactly this, that the vast majority of men who were accused or convicted of abusing Boy Scouts fall into these two categories--single men or men married to a woman.  They will not find a lot of openly gay men living in long term relationships with other men.  In a lot of ways, Boy Scouts would be safe with such a man. 

I am the parent of 4 Eagle Scouts--I have a few dogs in this fight.   I believe that a gay scout leader married to a man is the best bet for avoiding childhood molestation in scouting.   Lesbian women appear to be largely off the Boy Scouts 'concern' radar but they are included in the ban.  Gay women  would be just as good as gay men as scouting leaders.  It is unfounded prejudice and it is wrong.