Give this kid a civic participation badge, and someone should look earnestly into impeaching Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, if the allegations of inequitable anti-social demagoguery in front of a vulnerable population like children have merit. Honestly, though, this kid is lucky in a way. Now maybe he can join a group that subscribes to a more Enlightenment Age approach to its thinking, values, and frame-of-view.

If there was any doubt the Boy Scouts of America harbor a polarizing and enslaving ideology, events like these serve to remind us that the organization attracts individuals to it who would subvert the organization and the children in it into some star-spangled Hitler Youth. It doesn't "represent the organization," but the organization seems to turn a blind eye to it. We know this playbook well, and it falls short in all the ways pedophilia in the Catholic Church did. There should be institutional zeal to drive out predatory evil, be it sexual or ideological and political.