This is from that article linked above:
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The Scouts have been under fire in recent years for refusing to allow gays, atheists or agnostics into the organization.
“That’s totally irrelevant to this,” Shields [national spokesman for the BSA] said.
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He's right. This particular newsbreak is about finding pedophilia (and not homophobia) in the ranks of the Boy Scout officials. Besides:
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Law enforcement officials indicated the pictures did not show boys who were with the Boy Scouts organization, Shields said.
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The fact that he was looking at the boyporn (despite the fact that the people who actually make it should be flayed and cooked on a spit) isn't evidence that he personally has ever committed any sexual crimes directly against children. As long as he pleads guilty and does his time, that's the end of the story in my book.