My partner, Michael, and I are Eagle Scouts. We've said many times that the national office---which bans gays from being scouts or scout leaders---will have to pry our Eagle badges from our cold dead hands.

See, the leadership of the BSA claims that allowing gays in will lead to an epidemic of predatory behavior, putting "the children" in danger.

Yesterday a "high-ranking" Boy Scouts executive--one of the upholders if the gay ban--was brought up on charges of possessing kiddie porn: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151838,00.html. Another sicko in the "epidemic" of gay predators in the Scouts?

Not quite. Spokesman Gregg Shields said this yesterday: "This is the first time ever we recall anything like this being charged against a Boy Scouts employee. We're proud of our dedicated and hardworking people, but never heard of anything like this."

Did we mention the Boy Scouts have been around since 1910? Some epidemic.