Fox News host Mike Huckabee on Wednesday said that the Boy Scouts of America’s policy of discriminating against LGBT Americans was the “right decision” to protect young boys from being molested.

After a two-year review, Boy Scouts spokesperson Deron Smith on Tuesday announced that the discriminatory rule was “absolutely the best policy for the Boy Scouts.”

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“That is a right decision for the Boy Scouts,” Huckabee insisted on his radio show Wednesday as he took a call from a man who claimed he had been “molested” by Scout leaders as a boy.

“I believe that homosexuals try to target groups like that to try to get a leadership area in,” the man explained. “If there hadn’t been a homosexual in my troop, I wouldn’t have been traumatized for about three years.”

Huckabee recalled that Scout leaders had done the “same thing” in his troop when he was a boy.

“You know, I think if anybody wants to argue about this case, they need to hear your story,” the former Republican presidential candidate opined. “And I thank you for having the candor to share it with us. And again, you make us all understand why a decision that, at least, I think was the right one.”

Listen to this audio from The Huckabee Report, broadcast July 18, 2012.

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(h/t: Think Progress)