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Trouble started brewing for Blair last year when he sought to impose his own mayoral candidate over the choice of his party's membership - and he appears to have lost badly. When "Red" Ken Livingstone, a stalwart of the "loony left" that Blair vanquished in his rise to leadership of the Labor party, showed interest in the job, the prime minister was having none of it. Although the iconoclastic Livingstone, a longtime favorite of Londoners since the mid-?80s, when he headed the Greater London Council - and so irritated Margaret Thatcher that she abolished the institution...
...girls have talked to their families--all of our families are very involved. Parents have recommended people. Men and women have heard about us and talked to us and offered to help us out," says Shola L. Akinshemoyin '01, the group's membership director...
Yikes! thought the Scout councilmen, who revoked his Scout membership. When Dale asked for an explanation, they said the Boy Scouts of America "specifically forbid membership to homosexuals." Angry and sad--Dale had hoped to be a scoutmaster after college--he brought his case to the main gay legal organization, the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, which sued. Then in 1991 Dale gained solid legal footing when the New Jersey legislature, in an unrelated move, added gays to the state's Law Against Discrimination...
...Latter-day Saints have been instrumental in helping defeat pro-gay initiatives in at least three states. In 1995 Jack Goaslind Jr., a prominent church member who currently sits on the Scouts advisory council, said the church "would withdraw our charter membership" if scouting were required to admit gays. Moreover, in the Dale case, most major conservative groups in the U.S., from the Family Research Council to the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, have sided with the Scouts...
...when the men at Scout headquarters heard about the controversy, they had spokesman Gregg Shields confirm that the boy can't be a scout if he is gay. The local council quickly backtracked, reaching an uneasy compromise with headquarters: the boy kept the job--and his scouting membership--but he had to agree not to talk about being gay. Since then, the United Way and other funders have been under pressure to stop donating to the Scouts...