Word: joycelyn
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...months as Surgeon General, Dr. Joycelyn Elders urged the government to study legalizing drugs, backed the distribution of contraceptives in schools and counseled abortion foes to get over their "love affair" with the fetus. Bill Clinton stood by her throughout, suggesting that his old Arkansas friend was misunderstood...
Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders resigned last week at President Clinton's request, eight days after she remarked that schoolchildren should perhaps be taught about masturbation. The White House cited the growing list of areas in which the President and Elders disagree -- from possible legalization of drugs to distribution of condoms in schools -- as the reason for the President's action...
Campus liberals have a lesson to learn from the firing of Dr. Joycelyn Elders: offensiveness is a double-edged sword. As a standard for judging people, it cuts both ways...
...Joycelyn Elders was not fired simply because she was offensive. She was fired primarily because she was a political liability for President Clinton. But she was a political liability because her remarks were so upsetting to many of the decent, hard-working. God-fearing people who make this nation great...
...Joycelyn Elders is gone. Newt Gingrich is Speaker of the House. If you don't buy Aquinas or Anselm's proofs for the existence of God, stop and think about these two facts instead...