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Although an uneasy consensus is forming in favor of gay equality, the toughest test is what that equality will mean for our kids. This week the U.S. Supreme Court will take that test when it hears oral arguments in the case of Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale. The ruling, expected by summer, should settle the question of whether the Boy Scouts have to admit openly gay men and boys...
...Scouts have fought gays several times before, going back to the '70s, and always won. But this is the first such case to reach the high court, and it comes after a unanimous lower-court ruling against the Scouts. If the gay activists pushing Dale's case win, they will have cracked one of America's most traditional fraternities, a group that receives strong support from conservatives. If the Scouts win, they will help activists on the right reinforce a crumbling heteros-only wall around key social institutions (marriage being the most fraught...
...James Dale, 29, walks into Florent, a hip French eatery near a predominantly gay neighborhood in Manhattan. "Hi, Jaaaaames," coos Bruce, the maitre d', as he leans over in his black leather pants to kiss Dale, who has become something of a gay celebrity because of his case. Later, as Dale slices into his medium-rare tuna steak and sips a glass of Chardonnay, he seems a world away from S'mores over a campfire...
...Dale used to love all that stuff back in Middletown, N.J., where he grew up and, at age 8, entered Pack 142 of the Cub Scouts. Then known as James Dick--he understandably had the name changed--he became a model scout, earning 30 merit badges as well as the coveted eagle scout rank. He was on a first-name basis with the older men who ran scouting locally, and he gladly gave speeches to civic groups extolling pinewood derbies and asking for donations. According to the rules, scouts stop being scouts at 18, but Dale quickly became an assistant...
...implementation." By and large, they've done a great job marketing their sites and proving there's demand for what they do, but then they neglect the housekeeping chores necessary to run the business and fulfill their promises to their customers, such as hiring enough production managers, says Dale Kutnick, CEO of the Meta Group, a technology-research and advisory firm...