Word: sonly
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...asterisk. At a 1988 pastors' conference, many in Lotz's audience ostentatiously turned their chairs around so as not to face a preaching woman. Says Martin: "There was no chance of her taking [the leadership] role in the BGEA hierarchy because she's the daughter instead of the son." In fact, despite being on the BGEA board, Lotz has only once had a major part in a Crusade. "I would like to see her have a larger role," says Franklin, "and the time will come when we can do that, but at his age, my father is just trying...
...thing to say, as most Americans have for years now, that people shouldn't be fired from their jobs just because they are gay. But what if that job is to take care of your son on a Boy Scouts' camping trip? He may need comforting after a nightmare, or a pat on the back when he skins his knee. You may know rationally that gays are no more likely to molest children than are heterosexuals. And you may know that virtually all psychiatrists have agreed for years that kids can't be "turned" gay. But your...
...Scouts attorney George Davidson protests that their anti-gay position is "hardly under a rock," but he admits that if you check out SCOUTING.ORG, read the Boy Scout Handbook or go with your son to a troop meeting, you'll hear nothing about gays. He also acknowledges that, perversely, if they were more stridently anti-gay--if they were the Boy Scouts of the K.K.K.--they would have a clearer First Amendment claim that admitting gays would destroy everything they stand for. "Look, if this were a business, the Boy Scouts would simply put a few lines [of anti...
Betty Friedan calls herself a "bad-tempered bitch." She is incommunicado before 10 a.m. She will not pose on a seesaw with her grandchildren for a photo ("too hokey"), and she is prone to temper tantrums. Yet sitting on the deck of her son's home in Philadelphia, grandchildren running around with buckets washing the family dog, she is comfortably in her element. "It's all about family," she says in that familiar gravely voice...
...Rumors swirled that the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette lived on: that he had escaped on his own, or been spirited away by royalists who replaced him with a commoner, or that Robespierre himself, betraying a soft spot that has escaped historians, had earlier connived at the boy's flight. Time and again over the following decades, the "real" dauphin--among the dozens, a stable boy and a Prussian clockmaker--revealed himself...