Greg Boyd
Claims to fame: President, Junior Achievement, Oklahoma; Sunday school teacher, Indian Springs Baptist Church, Tulsa; suspected pornmaker with “an issue”
Moral apex: Busted Halloween, 2009, for possession of child pornography, after a teenage house-sitter found photos on Boyd’s digital camera of what appeared to underaged males doing the nasty — in Boyd’s own bedroom. Days later, busted again, this time for creation of child pornography.
However: The cops think the photos “were of men, of young men that were taken with their consent in his room at his home and we believe that they are over the age of 18,” reports KTUL.
Nevertheless: Boyd quit both JA and the church.
And: The teen house-sitter told police Boyd offered him a couple hundred bucks for sexual favors.
What’s Junior Achievement?
Junior Achievement is a non-profit youth organization founded in 1919 by Horace Moses, Theodore Vail, and the late senator Murray Crane. It focuses on education of the free enterprise system. Junior Achievement began as a collection of small, after-school business clubs for students on the East Coast of the United States.Junior Achievement’s global headquarters is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The organization merged its U.S. and international operations in 2004, and currently reaches nine million youth in 123 countries. …
Junior Achievement develops and maintains programs for children of all ages.
Which all sounds very nice, until you learn who backs the organization:
UPS, ExxonMobil, Goldman Sachs, and New York Life Insurance are among the corporations that have provided large grants to Junior Achievement. Kraft Foods is the largest single provider of volunteer economics instructors for Junior Achievement, with more than 2,100 participating employees in 2001.The Foundation for Teaching Economics (FTE), a nonprofit organization endorsed by Junior Achievement, has also offered classroom activities since 1975. The foundation is supported by two of the largest donors to right-wing causes, the Coors family and Richard Scaiffe (heir to the Mellon oil and banking fortune). It also uses an environmental curriculum funded by Coca-Cola and written by the Political Economy Research Center, a Montana based research organization that has led opposition to the Endangered Species Act and the Superfund. …
On occasion, the conflict of interest between the subject matter and the funding source is obvious. …
Usually, however, corporate influence is subtler, noticeable in what is left out of the curriculum. …
— Corporate Curriculum
Rethinking Schools
Summer, 2002
“Subtler,” while private-foundation influence is sometimes nearly invisible. Another big donor is the rabidly right-wing, rabidly homophobic, and disturbingly C-Street-connected John Templeton Foundation.
Memorable quote:
“I do realize I have an issue.”— Boyd to the house-sitter’s father
as reported by a police detective
Suggested Bible reading for Mr. Boyd:
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.— Galatians 5:17
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