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Justice Rehnquist (writing for the majority): "We are not, as we must not be, guided by our views of whether the Boy Scouts' teachings with respect to homosexual conduct are right or wrong. Public or judicial disapproval of a tenet of an organization's expression does not justify the state's effort to compel the organization to accept members where such acceptance would derogate from the organization's expressive message...
...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...
...could have played Maximus or Commodus: he was all warrior, all tyrant. A hard-drinking perfectionist, he got into brawls with villagers on one location and laid such waste to his rented villa in Morocco that the caretaker protested to Scott, saying "He must leave! He is violating every tenet of the Koran!" Crowe questioned every aspect of the evolving script and strode off the set when he did not get answers. Says a DreamWorks exec: "Russell was not well behaved. He tried to rewrite the entire script on the spot. You know the big line in the trailer...
...receiving medical care. This argument obscures the fact that for pro-lifers, abortion is not merely a private sin (as, say, eating meat on Fridays in Lent is for Catholics) but a public crime: the deliberate taking of human life. And opposition to abortion is not a peculiar tenet of a single Denomination--rather, it is common to nearly all orthodox western religions, ranging from Missouri Synod Lutheranism to Shi'ite and Sunni Islam, and from Russian Orthodoxy to Orthodox Judaism. In suggesting that subsidizing abortion is morally unimportant, The Crimson is effectively offering a slap in the face...
...very large buck that is responsibility for the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade last May has stopped, and landed square in the laps of seven CIA managers. The toll: One unnamed senior official fired and six others reprimanded by CIA director George Tenet for their roles. The key finding for the agency: It doesn't have, um, anyformal procedure in place for selecting targets for military use. The details make that painfully clear: Although agents obtained the correct street address for the intended target, a Serbian government supply office, the two-year-old map the agency was using...