"Pedophilia" stated for the first time in Buckley investigation

Stonewall Review Gay News
The unfolding criminal investigation of Raymond Buckley has seen the first use of the term "pedophilia" in a news report.

Buckley is the New Hampshire Democratic Party officer and National Stonewall Democrats board member who is under criminal investigation following a complaint related to illegal pornography (see Stonewall Review; "National Stonewall Democrats stunner -- Board member Raymond Buckley under criminal investigation"; January 05, 2007; http://stonewallreview.blogspot.com/2007/01/national-stonewall-democrats-stunner.html ). News reports have thus far not stated if the pornography in question involves underage subjects.

The Union Leader is now reporting that a New Hampshire state legislator is accusing Buckley of having a "penchant for pedophilia". The legislator, Steve Vaillancourt, has been identified in news reports as having once lived with Buckley for 16 years and as having traveled abroad with him on multiple occasions.

When the original allegations were reported Friday evening, we predicted that it would be only a matter of time before the mainstream media made a connection between Buckley's legal problems and his association with the Stonewall Democrats if he did not leave the board and if all traces of his name were not removed from NSD's web site.

He did not resign, his name was not removed, and the Union Leader made the connection the very next morning. The words "criminal investigation", "illegal pornography", and "National Stonewall Democrats" are now inextricably linked on the internet as a consequence.

We reiterate that Buckley is considered innocent in the eyes of the law until proven guilty. Nevertheless, the inflammatory, sexual nature of the allegations against him make it unreasonable that he should continue on the board of directors of a national lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender political organization. If the allegations were serious enough to force him to end his quest for the chairmanship of the New Hampshire Democratic Party (which they did), they are serious enough to require his exit from the Stonewall Democrats.

The organization and its members must be protected from any association with this unfolding drama. So far, they have not been.

Because Buckley has not yet resigned, and because his name still appears on NSD's web site as a board member, it is just a matter of time before "pedophilia" and "child porn" are also linked with the National Stonewall Democrats name. Buckley's selfish disregard of his fudiciary duty to NSD's members as well as the inexplicable inaction by the Stonewall board will guarantee this avoidable result.

The latest Union Leader article is at www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Vaillancourt%3A+Charges+go+back+to+1999&articleId=ae350f18-c09d-40c3-be42-44a0088142fb .