CNN reports today that Douglas S. Smith Jr. (picture link below), a former top official of the Boy Scouts of America has been arrested for downloading child pornography from the internet [http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/29/scouts.charges/index.html].
During Smith's tenure as National Director, the BSA fought well-known successful court battles to exclude atheist and gay scouts [ http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/nancy1tom.htm ], [ http://www.bsalegal.org/brucecol-181.htm'>http://www.bsalegal.org/brucecol-181.htm ]. In a recent legal reversal, an Oregon state Court of appeals ruled that