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Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Clark is the eldest son of a devout Mormon family, and is a former Eagle Scout...
...charges of sexual harassment. He ultimately prevailed but retired three years later, still smarting. He wrote a book about the hearings, titled Resurrection, in which he sounded almost surprised that partisanship can get nasty. With degrees in law and divinity, Danforth is in some ways an overgrown boy scout, which would also balance the smart-alecky Bush. "Jack Danforth wouldn't know how to smirk if you told him to," quipped a former aide...
Perhaps you are right to say "gays are no more likely to molest children than are heterosexuals," but given the fact that there are adults who would molest children, we take natural precautions, which is why an adult male leads a Boy Scout troop--not a girls' troop--and normally there is not any danger. If the adult is gay, however, even under your hypothesis, the precaution is weakened, and tragedy could follow. HUGO R. ZEA BARRIGA Lima...
...years of scouting in England, where the founder, Lord Baden-Powell, instituted the tenet that a scout is a brother to every other scout, no matter to what class, color or creed the other may belong. That is the essence and beauty of scouting. I'm not gay, but I see it as abundantly clear that antipathy to bigotry of any kind is implicit in the above canon. Whoever injected the phrase "morally straight" into the American version cannot possibly hold to an ethic of Christian charity. In 46 years of teaching, I have put my arms around many students...
...wimpy, woefully misshapen quarter--the new Sacagawea dollar has the gravity and import of the pound. It looks and feels like something you might see in an Old West saloon, perfect for a nation that worships its frontier past. (It's no accident that an Indian princess and scout decorates the face...